[ros-dev] Network speed

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Ged Murphy
> 
> Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> > It's still possible to download Firefox using ibrowser. 
> > Only problem is that ibrowser is glacially slow for some
> > reason :(
> 
> Last night I was finding the opposite.
> 
> ibrowser was lightening fast. I would go as far to say that 
> it was as quick on ROS running in vmware as my firefox 
> browser was on the host machine.

It turns out that if I set the virtual network card to NAT (which I do most
of the time) ibrowser is slow and Firefox doesn't start up at all. If I set
it to Bridged I get the same results as you. This is in VMware 5 on Linux.

GvG