[ros-dev] Network speed

[Ged Murphy]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:
>> 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
>   

Mine is also bridged using vmware 5 on Windows.

Ged