How to Increase your Internet Connection’s Speed in Windows by 20%

Their is a fact that Windows reserves around 20% of your internet connection’s bandwidth for the operating system and the applications installed on it. So essentially at any point of time you are not able to use 100% of your internet connection’s speed. This reserved bandwidth doesn’t matter much if you have a high speed internet connection, but for those of you who have a slow internet connection, removing the 20% bandwidth limit can significantly speed up your web browsing experience and increase download speeds.

Removing the reservable bandwidth limit set by windows:

Step 1: Type in Gpedit.msc in the windows search box and press enter.

gpedit.msc

Step 2: Navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates

Administrative templates

         Network -> Qos Packet Scheduler

Network

          Limit Reservable Bandwidth

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  Limit Reservable Bandwidth

  
  

Step 3: Select the enabled radio button and then change the bandwidth limitfrom 20 to 0. Finally Click on Apply to save the changes.

Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Thats’s it, you should be now able to use 100% of your internet connection’s bandwidth.