[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