Chris935 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Has anyone else noticed faster download speeds with Vista? I have clean installs of Vista & XP on my comptuer and Vista gets a much higher score on testmy.net. I was averaging about 1400Kb/s with Vista and only about 350Kb/s with XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 i know that xp have some "hidden thing" in system,which slows down internet connection for about 10~20%. maybe it`s because... ~R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFI Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 R2K. is right...there is a setting (can't nail it), that actually slows down your connection speed. I think I read it somewhere in trying to setup port forwarding properly for..ahem..you know what..but the article did say that I had to manually adjust a registry string to increase the bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Windows reserves 20% of your bandwidth by default, you can change it though by: 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%. I don't know if Vista does the same thing, someone want to try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empreality Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Windows reserves 20% of your bandwidth by default, you can change it though by: 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%. I don't know if Vista does the same thing, someone want to try it? Wow. Never knew that, thanks! Always sweet to know that I can get even more out of the now "old" OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Just tried it in Vista here, same procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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