Re: [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