Speed up your internet by 20%

[allenstreet]

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc
You can get it back:
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy
then Computer Configuration
then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."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%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

[BurrWalnut]

Oh, not you again, still getting your ‘tips’ wrong!

There are ways around it but the program gpedit.msc is not present in the Home versions of XP, Vista or Windows 7. As most people use these versions, your tip has little or no advantage.

1. A simple way that benefits everyone is to change two registry key to make web pages display slightly quicker. This boost is due to increasing the number of simultaneous downloads. Create a system restore point before making the changes.
In a Run window (Windows key+R), type regedit, press Enter and navigate to registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\InternetSettings
Look for two keys in the right pane, MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server. If they exist, then right-click on each in turn and Modify the value to decimal 10 (hex a).
If the strings don't exist in the right pane, they will need to be added manually. To add the two keys, right-click in the white space in the right pane, select New > DWORD Value, type the first name as the string name, press Enter and then repeat the procedure for the second one. Now modify the values to decimal 10 (hex a).

As the registry key is a CURRENT_USER one, the change needs to be done for each user of the computer.

2. Additionally, if Internet Explorer is running slowly, have a look at these:
A. Turn off 'RSS Feeds' by going to Internet Options > Content Tab > Feeds and Web Slices > Settings and uncheck Automatically check feeds for updates.
B. You may be running too many add-ons. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Manage add-ons then disable any unnecessary add-ons.
C. Reregister a dll, i.e. in a Run window (Windows key+R), type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll (note the space) and press Enter. In Vista and Windows 7 run this from an elevated Command Prompt.