Increase your bandwidth

A nice little tweak to increase your reserved bandwidth.  Most of us don’t know this little tip I tell you how by default windows reserves 20% available Internet bandwidth in order to accommodate certain applications like Windows Update. It’s not at all detrimental and you can immediately gain 20% of your bandwidth back, increasing Internet performance significantly.

This is called the QoS Reserve Bandwidth Limit, and to reduce this on any version of Windows 7 you need to edit the registry.

Follow these steps to increase the speed:

1. Click [Windows button] + [R] and type gpedit.msc in the Run window.

2. Under Computer Configuration expand the Administrative Templates.
3. Go to Network and click the QoS Packet Scheduler tab.

4. Double-click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and enable it.
5. Finally change the Bandwidth limit to 0% and click Apply.

6. Reboot your computer and enjoy