Typing problems over a high-latency network

[adams607]

I'm running VBox 4 on RHEL 5.5. I run Windows 7 inside the VM and have the guest additions installed.

Everything works fine when I'm sitting at the Linux machine and using the VM. If I access the Linux machine over a slow and high-latency network (logging in using VNC), then my typing in the VM gets messed up in a very particular way. It's fine on the Linux host, so I don't think VNC is the problem.

The way the typing gets messed up is that, if a word has the same character in close succession, they show up in the VM grouped together. For instance, if I type "this is a test", it would show up as "thiiss a ttes". The non-sequential characters that were typed near each other show up as though they were typed sequentially. Another strange thing that happened is that I tried to type "John" using the key sequence shift+j,o,h,n and it showed up as "JOHn".

Anyone have any ideas what's causing this?

[miquelmartin]

Same problem here but directly working on a local virtual machine with 4.0.4... any insight anyone?

[Perryg]

When you say "slow and high-latency network" what exactly are you talking about. Also are you accessing the VM direct, in a desktop window on the host, or via port forwarding via vRDP?
What is the network adapter, and mode of the guest?