disabling Network Trottling on win7/vista

NetWorkThrottling:

One of the most frequent complains about Windows Vista is the Multimedia Class Scheduler (MCS). The is an enabled-by-default component in Windows that prioritises multimedia applications and tasks such as video and music playback (hence, improving your multimedia experience).

However, when multimedia tasks are active (most notably if Windows Media Player is active), MCS will throttle down the global network bandwidth to around 10,000 packets per second to conserve CPU interrupts. On high speed links like Gigabit Ethernet (without Jumbo Packets), the throttling may yield a significant drop in network throughput.

In Vista SP1, Microsoft added the ability to change the packet per second limit of the MCS, or completely disable it. If you’re still using Vista RTM, you’re out of luck. The following procedures work with all new Microsoft operating systems, be it Vista SPx or Windows 7. Here’s how:

1. Press Windows key and R simultaneously.

2. Enter “regedit” (without the quotation marks) and press enter.

3. Using the tree on your left, navigate to the following branch:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Win dows NT\CurrentVersion\ Multimedia\SystemProfile

4. Double click on “NetworkThrottlingIndex“.

5. To disable completely, enter FFFFFF with base hexadecimal.


Effect,this will lower your ping in most multiplayer games,make it more stable and give less spikes.