Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP

[MZR <mzrahman () gmail com>]

Reed Loden wrote:
> 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.

It surely is a FUD. More info: http://news.slash.sg/?p=78

QoS may only be needed in special cases like when using ICS. So, 
disabling or setting the value to 0% may degrade QoS. That said, maybe a 
different value will work better in different cases.


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