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Personally speaking I leave the 20% reserve as-is because I see no major advantages of removing it. Take a few minutes and think about the three points I mention above. I am not saying removing the reserve will do absolutely nothing I am saying keep your expectations in check. More importantly, however, if you aren’t using all 80% of your bandwidth with the 20% reserve, then removing the 20% reserve will do nothing - you will just have extra bandwidth you are not using. First of all, as I mention in my second point above, you already have access to 100% of your bandwidth when no QoS task is running as such, if you rarely run QoS tasks, manually removing the 20% reserve will do much of nothing because you already typically have all 100%. Thirdly, having access to 100% of your bandwidth does not ensure faster connection speeds. So by going forward with removing the 20% reserve, essentially you wouldn’t be recovering all 20% of your bandwidth you would be recovering the piece of the 20% that is wasted and unused when a QoS task is running. When no QoS task is running, by default you have access to 100% of your bandwidth. Secondly, 20% of your bandwidth is reserved only when QoS tasks are running. If you go ahead and disable this reserved bandwidth, you may experience issues with QoS tasks. Windows has this reserved bandwidth to ensure a smooth experience with QoS traffic because this type of traffic typically needs a high amount of reliable bandwidth. anything that makes use of the QoS Packet Scheduler. This traffic includes stuff like streaming videos, Windows Update, VoIP, etc. Food For Thoughtīefore you jump on the bandwidth bandwagon, there are a few things to consider.įirstly, the 20% reserved bandwidth is for QoS traffic. This guide shows you how to remove this limitation and force Windows to use 100% of your network bandwidth. Once such factor is Windows reserving 20% of your network bandwidth for special QoS ( Quality of Service), essentially capping you at using 80% of your total available bandwidth. However, sometimes there are software elements that influence your connection speed. The speed of your Internet connection largely depends on external factors you cannot control.