Thursday, November 17, 2011

Increase internet speed by decreasing reserve bandwidth

If you are a windows user you can increase your internet speed upto 20%. This can be done by decrease the reserve windows bandwidth. By default windows holds 20% of your bandwidth for various services such as windows update and other services.
Follow these steps:
Make sure you must log in with administrative privilege.
  • Click "Start" and select "Run" or press Win+R.
  • Type "gpedit.msc"(without quotes).

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  • Click on Computer Configuration(in left side panel).
  • Open Administrative Templates(in right side panel).
  • Open Network and open QoS Packet Sheduler.
  • Then open Limit reservable bandwidth, a new window will appear.


  • Click Enable and change Bandwidth limit from 20% to 0%.





















  • Click Apply and then OK.
  • Restart computer and surf internet.

Note:  If you are using Windows7 starter or home premium, unfortunately gpedit.msc is not available. Don't worry you can enable it by installing this application!
Click here to download!

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