Microsoft Uses 20% Bandwidth

[Galahad 0]

I had this seto to 0, for over 3 years now (yes, same win instalation, no reinstalls for 3 years), and there are no side-effects... I would agree, that the system reserves 20% of badnwidth when commiting updates, and I'm quite sure it reserves 20% of bandwidth when it's communicating with microsoft servers, sending them who knows what data... I have this as a fact, as when I installed a firewall, I could see that certain processes are attempting to contact a certain IP (that is registered to microsoft) very often, somewhere between once a minute, to few times a minute... So, there's your privacy...Anyways, since I have never ever used that update feature, and never updated from m$ site, I set this to 0, nad I'm happy about it... Though, I suspect that this setting is sort of for show, and that the system still reserves certain amouont of bandwidth for it's own tasks...

[dastrophy 0]

My system arrived witht this option DISABLED, so I doubt that setting it to 0 will have any adverses side-affects: I think rather it is better used for the opposite use, so if you are browsing a simple text forum or something and automatic updates is running, boost it up to 50% so that it actually downloads the same day, as opposed to you having to wait several hours after surfing for it to finish downloading...

[rayzoredge 2]

Just out of perspective, isn't bandwidth actually the CAPACITY of a connection as opposed to its speed?This would explain why you wouldn't receive a boost to your connection speed with the testing server, but you could possibly MAINTAIN that speed with THAT server PLUS maintain a connection with another unique server.Basically, I'm trying to say that bandwidth is to network as RAM is to processing ability. :XD:

[AaMar 0]

Thankss

[odomike 0]

I just activated the tweak in my computer. Now let me see whether I am gonna get a boost in Bandwidth or not. I honestly hope this doesnt have any side effect to my networking and Windows in general.

[kab012345 0]

Thanks for the tip bigboss. This will probably get my internet speed going to the speed it is supposed to go if not faster, instead of slower.

[Urilockz 0]

I was looking for just the thing a second ago, thanks for the find!

[omarsdali 0]

Does anyone know how to apply this on vista ? I typed gpedit.msc in the run box and it says "Windows cannot find "gpedit.msc". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.