Extremely Slow Network Speeds On Windows Guests

Discussions about using Windows guests in VirtualBox.
Perryg
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Re: Extremely Slow Network Speeds On Windows Guests

Post by Perryg »

IMHO it is faster if you do not bridge inside the host as you are doing here.

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auto br0
    iface br0 inet dhcp
    bridge_ports eth0 vbox0
I don't have this in my interfaces file. Try commenting this out and see if it speeds up. If not then put it back.
cornbread
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Re: Extremely Slow Network Speeds On Windows Guests

Post by cornbread »

I don't do it that way. Bummer. looks like i'm stuck with 100mb speed on 1000mb network. terrible
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