How to Change the Limit Reservable Bandwidth in Windows Using Group Policy Editor

How to Change the Limit Reservable Bandwidth in Windows Using Group Policy Editor

Microsoft by default reserves 80% of your bandwidth for QOS or Quality of Service usage like Windows update.

To remove this limit, open up the Run interface then enter “gpedit.msc”

Under the Local Computer Policy choose

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QOS Packet Scheduler > Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

This will open the Limit reservable bandwidth window and you will see that by default it is not configured.

Choose enabled > then put a zero or 1 value on the limit then click OK

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BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service

The updates happen through 2 main windows components: WUDO and BITS.

WUDO is the Windows Update Delivery Optimization is part of the Windows Update for Business and is used for the P2P installation that we disabled already.

The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is commonly used by Windows to download updates, can we do something about this little guy?

When something misbehave, it’s time to put some rules up and as an hereditary tribute of his Windows Server brother, Windows 7 and up have a Group Policy editor that we can use to put some rules.

To open the Local Group Policy Editor from the command line:

1.   Click Start , type gpedit.msc in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

2.   To set a bandwidth rule on the BITS: Navigate to Administrative Templates -> Network -> Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

3.   Open Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers

4.   Set it to Enabled

5.   Set the time range and maximum transfer rate

6.   OK