Recently, out of the kindness of their heart, my ISP upgraded my connection to provide 300 Mbps (from 50 Mbps) download speed. It measures slightly over this speed and with a good Download manager keeps the DL speed right at 300 - 320 Mbps. This is all on my host system. On VMware Player average DL speed is about half. Please see image below:
On the right is a large DL (1.7 GB file) using my host and on the left is same conditions on my VM. Each vertical dotted line is 30 seconds. I did some research and was told to use a Bridged connection. I changed my NAT to bridged with no effect. I also turned off the Windows FW on the guest to no effect. The first question is what maximum speed should I expect? I read about changing the virtual adapter, but it looks like Player does not offer this option. Is there changes I can make that would allow my VM to have about the same DL speed as my host gets from my ISP? Thanks for any comments and help. John.