Saturday 15 March 2014

Configure & Limit Reservable Bandwidth Setting In Windows 8.1

In general, bandwidth is actually the rate at which data travels to and fro from your computer. In other words, bandwidth is the range covered for data transmission between an upper range and lower range. Bandwidth is usually controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). However, there exists some settings in Windows, by configuring which you limit the reservable bandwidth for your system.
Primarily, Windows reserves the certain amount of bandwidth for its application requirements and operation purposes. By configuring its setting in the Group Policy, you can easily limit the reservable bandwidth. This article will show you stepwise, how to access or open up the reservable bandwidth on your Windows 8.

Limit Reservable Bandwidth Setting in Windows 8

1. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put gpedit.msc in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Local Group Policy Editor.
GPEDIT Configure & Limit Reservable Bandwidth Setting In Windows 8.1
2. Navigate here:
Computer Configuration -> Administrative -> Network -> Qos Packet Scheduler
 How To Configure Bandwidth Settings In Windows 8 8.1 Configure & Limit Reservable Bandwidth Setting In Windows 8.1

3. In the right pane of this window, look for the settings named Limit reservable bandwidth, it must be showing a Not Configured status by default. Double click on the same setting to modify it:
How To Configure Bandwidth Settings In Windows 8 8.1 1 Configure & Limit Reservable Bandwidth Setting In Windows 8.1

This policy setting determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations of all programs running on the system. By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 80 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default. If you enable this setting, you can use the “Bandwidth limit” box to adjust the amount of bandwidth the system can reserve. If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the system uses the default value of 80 percent of the connection. If a bandwidth limit is set for a particular network adapter in the registry, this setting is ignored when configuring that network adapter.

4. Now, in the above shown window, select Enabled and in the Options section; you could input the percentage for limiting the bandwidth. If you input 0 percent here, you can gain the reserved bandwidth reserved by the system.UPDATE: Do read the note below.
Click Apply followed by OK then. You may now close the Local Group Policy Editor and reboot the system with gained bandwidth.
Hope you find the tip useful!

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