Old, and its a myth it wont speed up your internet speed.

More information
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q316666

I have a friend who used to think this was a complete myth until he got a wireless network it applys to LAN and internet. Some wireless systems reserve this bandwidth permenantly.

Quite easy to prove this works on your LAN but not so easy to prove it works on the internet as there is too many differing conditions to take into account.

Not sure on this myself but interesting enough .... Unix some really good info in that first link of yours as well

There is one service in XP that does use this QoS reserve, BITS (background inteligent transfer system) part of the auto update system, it DOES reserve this but ONLY when it is in use DL updates from MS.

most of us already use the max our internet can give us anyway.

we are all forgteting that TCPIP adds a 2bit overhead, so you are supposed to Divide your connection speed, by 10, to get your download rate.

for instance

i have 512/128, by a divisor of 8, i should download at 64/16

but because the real divisor is 10, i download at 52/12

Same here Mate im 512/128 too , but i can go up to 60 at download .

For the Trick with the speed up in my XP-Gamer its already cut off , but it dont give any difrent that my normal XP installation.