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Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP
From: Reed Loden <reed () reedloden com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:17:40 -0500
Quoting Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>:
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3113 Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for its own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)
Be careful what you read, as this claim is false. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q316666 and the section entitled "Correction of some incorrect claims about Windows XP QoS support." Basically: "As in Windows 2000, programs can take advantage of QoS through the QoS APIs in Windows XP. One hundred percent of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth. This "reserved" bandwidth is still available to other programs unless the requesting program is sending data. By default, programs can reserve up to an aggregate bandwidth of 20 percent of the underlying link speed on each interface on an end computer. If the program that reserved the bandwidth is not sending sufficient data to use it, the unused part of the reserved bandwidth is available for other data flows on the same host." Don't believe everything you see on the Internet. ~reed -- Reed Loden - <reed () reedloden com> _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP Dude VanWinkle (Jun 01)
- Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP Reed Loden (Jun 01)
- Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP MZR (Jun 01)
- Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP Dude VanWinkle (Jun 02)
- Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 02)
- Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP MZR (Jun 01)
- Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP Reed Loden (Jun 01)