Increase your internet bandwidth by more than 20% in XP (for broadband


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Originally posted by DoNuTjC

I tried to log in as an administrator but it says that the account is restricted...

Any ideas?

Thanks

when i do the ctrl alt delete on there it brings on the log in thing, yada yada, but it puts my admin name in there, and so i type Administrator and it says the passwords wrong or something so i guess i have the same prob as you, but, i don't have "gpedit.msc" anywhere on my hd, it's no where to be found.

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1.make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.

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Why is this necessary?

Anyone know why another user with Admin rights won't do?

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Originally posted by DoNuTjC

I tired typing in gpedit.msc under run but it says its not there.... does this work for xp Home edition?

Originally posted by Phil Gates

ditto. someone PLEASE help our poor unfortunate souls.

i don't know this for sure....but it makes sense that home edition wouldnt have gpedit (group policy editor)......as it's meant for non-networked setups, and therefore won;'t be part of any groups that need tobe administrered, as well, home edition (as far as i know) lacks some of the key network stuff that XPpro has (i dont know this for sure).

anyways....this might be why u cant find gpedit anywhere on a HE box.

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Can someone clarify what 20% of the your bandwidth means. 'Cause I'm thinking I got 100mb card, Rogers (my ISP) caps me at 300kb. So 20% is neither here nor there. Or is the claim that XP somehow knows about the 300kb cap and is stealing from there. Or am I way off on the theory of how this works?

Plus I don't know about you guys but the only place I can consistantly download from at 300k are sites (or newsgroups) mirrored by my ISP.

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I'm on a 56k dial-up connection...

Neowin is much faster!

My normal d/l speed is still 4.8-5.3kbps...

But I thinks there's a little difference now (maybe 0.3k more)

Thanks for this nice tweak!

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Tikimotel..

simply unchecking that box will not do it. let me do a copy paste straight from the group policy explanation tab..look at the bold..

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.

as for why you need to login as administrator, that simply has me stumped. according to computer management users and groups, both my account and the administrator account are in the Administrators group. they're one and the same thing.

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Hey you XP Home Edition users out there..

I just switched this value and captured what changed on my computer (files, registry, etc) when I did it. I don't really want to try to make heads or tails out of this, but i'm going to upload the capture file (which is a txt file).

Maybe with this info you can figure out what you need to change manually in the registry using Regedit, without needing the group policy editor (which apparently you don't have)

anyways /me blah blah so...

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Originally posted by X3M

this ones simple:

this is for broad band connections. I didn?t try it on dial up but might work for dial up.

1.make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.

to log in as an administrator:

click on start->logoff->logoff

in the logon screen hold Ctrl+Alt+Del.

in the user field type 'Administrator' <-case sensitive.

in the password field type the password for the administrator (if you dont have any leave blank. click ok.

2. start - run - type gpedit.msc

3. expand the "local computer policy" branch

4. expand the "administrative templates" branch

5. expand the "network branch"

6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window

7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting

8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item

9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0

10. go to your Network connections (start->connect to->show all connections). right click on your connection then under the General or the Networking tab (where it lists your protocols) make sure QoS packet scheduler is enabled.

11. reboot if you want to but not necessary on some systems your all done. Effect is immediate on some systems. some need re-boot.

This is more of a "counter what XP does" thing. In other words, XP seems to want to reserve 20% of the bandwidth for its self. Even with QoS disabled, even when this item is disabled. So why not use it to your advantage. To demonstrate the problem with this on stand alone machines start up a big download from a server with an FTP client. Try to find a server that doesn't max out your bandwidth. In this case you want a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this. Let it run for a couple of minutes to get stable. The start up another download from the same server with another instance of your FTP client. You will notice that the available bandwidth is now being fought over and one of the clients download will be very slow or both will slow down when they should both be using the available bandwidth. Using this "tweak" both clients will have a fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the bandwidth.

for example. now neowin.net loads in less than 1 sec instead of 7 secs before changing the bandwidth limit. b>

I tried logging in as Administrator then clicking run and typing :gpedit.msc and it says that it cant find "gpedit.msc "

Is there another way

Thank:ermm:m:

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I have an EXE file that I scripted in Wise that will make this change. I am a little reluctant to post it because I don't want to be blamed for any damage that *MIGHT* occur because of the install. I will tell you that I have run it on about 5 different XP PRO computer will no problems. If enough people want it, I will post it here. If you want it, private message me and I can send it to you.

Again, just understand that I can't/WON'T be held responsible for any damages you *MIGHT* incur using my file. You WILL be using it **AT YOUR OWN RISK**!

(But it has served me well !) :)

P.S. - even with this EXE, I still run it while logged in as Administrator.

Also, I don't know if it will work on XP Home as I have no way to test it.

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Originally posted by Packman

Can someone clarify what 20% of the your bandwidth means. 'Cause I'm thinking I got 100mb card, Rogers (my ISP) caps me at 300kb. So 20% is neither here nor there. Or is the claim that XP somehow knows about the 300kb cap and is stealing from there. Or am I way off on the theory of how this works?

Plus I don't know about you guys but the only place I can consistantly download from at 300k are sites (or newsgroups) mirrored by my ISP.

Even with a 10 or 100 MB NIC, you will never see those speeds. That is "theoretical" speeds. And yes, the QoS is using 20% of your speed. Meaning that it is taking 20% of the 300kb you are getting.

The reason that you get the high speeds from you ISPs mirrored sites is just that, they are mirrored sites. This means that they are cached at the local ISP and you are not having to cross the Internet to get the sites, you are pulling them from their local server as though (in a sense) you were on a local LAN.

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i have a 760/128 DSL connection from Verizon. i haven't tweaked the connection at all and am running it on basically default settings in XP.

i followed the instrutctions given (btw, i was able to set everything up w/o resorting to the 'Administrator' account, i just used my administrative-rights user account) and rebooted like it asked me to (after i re-installed QoS).

after running some speedtests, i didn't notice any improvements. nor did i notice anything while browsing websites. i'm thinking that simply disabling QoS is the same as turning it on and turning off the bandwidth setting.

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Originally posted by Spyder

scorcho..read my post above, in the quote, in bold. no its not the same.

well, testing out before and after (rebooted several times) i can say that they are the same. i noticed no difference in speeds before and after and speed tests from several sites confirmed it.

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Hey Yall,

Make sure you guys add the QoS Service to your broadband connection after enabling the QoS service in the Group Policy Editor.

- Start -> Connections -> Show All Connections

- right-click on your connection and select properties.

- In the General tab, you should have "QoS Packet Scheduler" listed as in the "This connection uses the following items:" section.

- If not, click Install...

- Click Service

- Click Add

- Select QoS Packet Scheduler, then OK

- Reboot for the fun of it

Steve

:cool:

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