XP & Internet Bandwidth

[Wiggins]

Is it me or does XP save a percentage of the bandwidth for stupid things which stops the connection running 100 percent???

If so, is there a way of stopping this so I can be greedy and have it all?

 

[Wiggins]

Just ran TCP Optimizer.

MTU was set to 1200

Connection speed on this was @ 2000 kbps and I have 8meg although I do lay asleep at night dreaming that BT would send the magic man out to make it a FULL 8meg.

Anyway, I set the MTU to 1500 and the connection speed to 8meg, low and behold the speed has actually increased.

Nice One

 

[Wiggins]

I take it then that the QOS Packet Scheduler reserves this bandwidth for the likes of programs wanting updates etc...