Windows 10: Reserve my Internet speed by 80 freaking percent, Why?

I just show an article about Windows Reserve my Internet speed by 80 freaking percent, Why the **** did you do that this whole time ****-heads? I mean REALLY...? This whole time... This whole freaking time? I was just typed "download speed on phone is faster than PC why" than google reveal your true evilness in front of my eyes.

WHY THE **** DID YOU DO THAT **** HEADS...?

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Does Windows 10 reserve 80% of internet bandwidth for the system?

no it is NOT a myth the default usage for bandwidth is indeed 80%.

here is a copu paste of the gpedit.msc txt:

"
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.

Important: If a bandwidth limit is set for a particular network adapter in the registry, this setting is ignored when configuring that network adapter."

note what it states about default package scheduler. so that is a fact NOT a myth my friend

 

Does Windows 10 reserve 80% of internet bandwidth for the system?

It IS a myth.

I am quite familiar with the text in the dialog, having read it on more than one occasion. The wording is not the best and can lead to misunderstandings. In technical writing it is difficult to describe something in a way that is both technically accurate and yet easy to understand. Microsoft user level documentation tends toward the latter and even computer professionals sometimes it wrong. I have seen this lead to lengthy discussions on forums where nothing is resolved.

Note the first sentence in the text:
"Determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve."
By default no bandwidth is reserved but QOS aware programs can reserve a portion of bandwidth if needed. But even then other programs have the full bandwidth. Only if the reserving program is actively using bandwidth does the reservation come into effect.

Back in XP days there was so much confusion about this that Microsoft had an article that accurately described how things worked and debunking the myth. Unfortunately it seems that it no longer exists. We still have the explanation by Raymond Chen mentioned in post #8. He has been a developer with Microsoft since Windows 95 days.

I have tried the QOS changes, including some with values larger then 20%. I noticed no changes in bandwidth.

Edit: It seems that old myths like this never die. They are continually being spread around the internet and leading to endless confusion.

 

Does Windows 10 reserve 80% of internet bandwidth for the system?


I am currently struggling with an appallingly slow internet speed.

In trying to resolve this I came across a Youtube video that claims that Windows 10 reserves 80% of internet bandwidth for the system, and shows you how to change this.

The video quality is worse than poor, but I worked out that it's through gpedit.msc then Administrative Templates then Network.

I wasn't able to try this as my laptop doesn't recognise gpedit.msc but does anyone know if this is correct (that bandwidth is significantly restricted by the system) and, if so, is it possible to change the setting to free up bandwidth?