The bandwidth on an ordinary XP machine can be increased by 20% by the following parameter.:

Limit Bandwidth Reserve

This parameter determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations of all programs running on the system.

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.

If you enable this setting, you can use the "Bandwidth limit" box to adjust the amount of bandwidth the system can reserve.

If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the system uses the default value of 20 percent of the connection.

Important: If a bandwidth limit is set for a particular network adapter in the registry, this setting is ignored when configuring that network adapter.


1.start ->Run->gpedit.msc
2.under Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Network
3.Click on QoS packet Scheduler
4. Select parameter Limit Reserve Bandwidth (double click it).
5. And disable it.


No harm done!!

Cheers

I have seem something similar to this before. I have tried it and with nice success. Thanks, this will be real helpful to some.

is this just for servers or your personal computer?

Any computer but it must run Win XP Pro.

Kool, done mine but not tested it yet

what does it do? "increase your bandwidth" Why would I need to increase my bandwidth?

Dont do this, it makes your ping very high. Mines over the 1 thousend mark and its buggering up my mates connection to the server by hoging the line.

You may gain UP TO 20% of additional bandwidth (some users may only gain less than 1%).

What are the negative side affects from using 100% bandwidth?

Does this affect other users on a network?

Does this affect other connections on a router?

And does it affect the ability of my Anti-Virus to update and scan for virus' in the backround?

Thanks for the tip.