New guy saying hello

(With a bonus tip)

[vbmark]

Hello,

Funny thing. When I would research something on Google and webmasterworld would come up, I would always see the page that I thought meant I must pay to see the content. So I was very disappointed and never got my answer from here.

Today, after all this time, I realized that all I needed to do was register! So I am very happy to be hear.

Now I want to share a great tip that I just learned. The credit for this tip goes to lockergnome.com.

Thanks!
vbMark

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Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for its own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc.) Here's how to get it back:

Click Start / Run
Type: gpedit.msc
This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / QOS Packet Scheduler / Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab:

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

[henry0]

vbMArk welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Interesting
but sounds quite drastic
would you mind posting in MS operating syst forum

I would like to know if anyone has an opinion
thanks

[RonPK]

Microsoft's reaction: [support.microsoft.com...]

They basically say bandwidth is only reserved when necessary, not permanently.

[henry0]

Thanks RonPK this makes sense.

Too bad 98SE is gone it was fun to tweak and fix what was not broken :)

[kumprinx]

hey.
i'd like to say hi too.

vbmark, i had the same experience too.