Re: VPN incredibly slow?

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From: Howard Griffith (howardgriffith_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/28/04


Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:20:28 -0700

Frank,

What guest OS are you running ? Windows XP ? Have you configured your guest
OS for optimal speed.

If you're running Windows XP stock its very slow, but there are some
configuration changes that you can do to significantly boost performance.

Regards,
Howard

On 9/27/04 11:24 AM, in article 2fd701c4a4bf$3c7efac0$a301280a@phx.gbl,
"Frank Fisher" <frank.fisher@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used VPN in the past and I liked it.
>
> I just installed VPN 6.1 on my PowerBook PowerPC G4 (15'', 1 GHz, 768
> RAM), and it is incredibly, incredibly slow. I've cranked up the RAM allocated
> to VPC to the maximum (768-256), and it's still slow. I mean, it takes a
> minute to load a webpage, pre-1995 slow.
>
> Any suggestions? Anyone else had this same problem? I want to run one
> program in Windows (MathCad, which is unsupported on the Mac - that is a
> topic for another posting), but at this speed I can't fathom ever using it.



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