Download speed extremely slow Ubuntu 14.04 on VMware

Question

Am facing similar issue with my Wireless internet connection.

Ubuntu 14.04 as a guest OS on Windows 8.1 using VMware workstation 11.0

I get around 1000 kpbs(it's enough for me...) on Windows 8 while its "snailing" on virtual machine. Here's the output of that script.

I would love to see 1000 kpbs on my Ubuntu as well. It's hurting me a lot.

Solution 1

I was using VMWare player 6.03, booting Ubuntu 16.04 on a Windows 7 host. Both the wireless and wired connections were atrociously slow. Apt install of chromium-browser was going to take an hour just to fetch from the repo.

This link provided a recommendation to check which Network Adapter you are using.

In VMWare under the Edit virtual machine settings -> Hardware tab -> Network Adapter, my Network connection mode was set to NAT. I changed this to Bridged, rebooted the vm and voila it only took a couple of minutes to install chromium-browser with apt.

Hope this helps!

Solution 2

I've used a virtual machine before (virtualbox) and running an OS like that makes the guest OS very slow and you can't use the full potential. The best is have dual boot.

Comments

[Elder Geek]

Based on your comments on Rita Martins answer, could you please edit and expand your question to indicate whether you mean updates are slow or what exactly you mean by "terminal download" and whether you are comparing speeds from the same site? Thank you

[swapab]

But the strange thing is web downloads works quite OKAY. Its the terminal download that's slow. Downloads are like forever...

[David Foerster]

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! I recommend to edit this answer to expand it with specific details about how to do this. (See also How do I write a good answer? for general advice about what sorts of answers are considered most valuable on Ask Ubuntu.)