Improve cable performance for XP Home Edition

fazerking · Post by **fazerking** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:21 am

I found some information about improving the Cable performance under Windows XP Home Edition, but not sure it works or not. Do anyone know about the following?

Steps:

- Start > Run > "regedit" > Find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Policies/Microsoft/Windows"

- Add a key called "Psched" with value "Dword" (NonBestEffortLimit), the value is 0.

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:04 pm

never heard of that one b4 it sounds like it's local networking may not help the internet i could be wrong

yikes · Post by **yikes** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:12 pm

That reg entry is the QOS packet scheduler value, in the case you have shown with a value of "0" there is no reserve bandwidth(or QOS is disabled). I believe the default is 20%.

Regards,
YiKeS

Courtney · Post by **Courtney** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:35 pm

The default is 20 when QoS is actually being used. If XP is not using QoS (and everything has to support it, the server at the distant end and every router in between) QoS uses 0 percent.

In other words, none of the QoS tweaks out there actually work.

(I wish this one would die already)

courtney sends...

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:39 pm

Courtney wrote:The default is 20 when QoS is actually being used. If XP is not using QoS (and everything has to support it, the server at the distant end and every router in between) QoS uses 0 percent.

In other words, none of the QoS tweaks out there actually work.

(I wish this one would die already)

courtney sends...

I had debates that tweak how it was myth in my cisco class with this one dude it's amazing how that rumor is still out there.