Microsoft Hoards 20% of your bandwidth for itself!

Today, i was astonished to find out that MS reservs 20% of the available internet bandwidth on your PC for its own applications - windows update etc... I found this reading Liquid Boys blog here:

http://advertboy.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/increase-your-internet-speed/

Here is what he suggested you do to get around it:

Click Start then Run and type “gpedit.msc” without quotes.

This opens the “group policy editor” and go to: “Local Computer Policy”

Then “Computer Configuration” Then “Administrative Templates”

Then select “Network” then “QOS Packet Scheduler”

After that select “Limit Reservable Bandwidth”.

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab i.e.” By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

Nokia N95 on the way

Had my last phone - Sony Erricson W800i for a year and a half now with the joystick frigged for the last 8 months of that! I was supposed to return it under warranty but just never got round to it.

So ive finally got round to doing something about it and found a cracking deal with 3 mobile. Last night i had a good look round at what other people have found and the things you can do with that phone are pretty amazing. To think back 25 years years or more ago when i was playing with my ZX Spectrum its unbelieveable how far we have come.

Right now im well excited about getting the phone and trying out all the cool things ive seen. I'll stick up a blog post to let you know what i think of it.

Hope the courier doesnt come too early as ive too much work on to get distracted for long today!

2 hours FREE Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services Training (MOSS) from MS

Came across this on the MS e-learning site today as im looking to further my skills in this area.

Sign up while its free if you are interested as there is a 1 year subscription on it. They may start charging soon.

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=61966

LearnVisualStudio.net - Fantastic learning site

Ive added some link banners to the top of my blog for LearnVisualStudio.net. I cant recommend this site enough. If you are a complete novice or an intermediate with plenty of .net under your belt you will always find something on there. Its how i learnt .NET and helped me become the developer I am today.

The videos date all the way back to 1.1 and then upto current day technologies such as AJAX. The current learning path is hooked into gaining microsoft certification for the new exams. This is something i am working towards and for the price they charge compared to a microsoft course it is pheomenal value. The best £100 i ever spent. Its the price of a couple of books and as im a better visual learner than learning from a book i find them invaluable.

They also have private forums for the lifetime members and these are great - especially for beginners. Anything you ask in here will be met with respect and you can guarantee you wont be shot down in flames!