Would you believe me if i said you can increase your internet speed by up to 20% without having to do much? Irrespective of how fast your speed already is, another 20% is just like an icing on the cake! Yum!
FYI, Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc.
Now, you can get it back! In under a minute!
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to Local Computer Policy then Computer Configuration then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then lastly to Limit Reservable Bandwidth. 
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but you can find the truth under the 'Explain' tab. It says: "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%. It works on Win 2000 as well.
Hope we saved your day 
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