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03-28-2008, 12:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2008, 12:24 AM by Chillosophy)
(03-19-2008, 06:08 AM)chevy link Wrote: and 20% of your bandwith speed also occupyed by Windows somwhere as spare?
That's bs. It just reserves 20% of your bandwidth
when it's downloading an update for Windows. That's like, what? Two times a month tops? Ten, fifteen minutes?
Why the hell would a software company steal 20% of your bandwidth all the time?
And it's 20% of your NIC maximum speed, so it's probably less than 2% of your total speed depending on your maximum internet speed
sorry for the doublepost tomozj, please don't kill me
Addition:
Quote: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.