Actually if you read the documentation, it recommends that you run
VPC with 256 allocated. They say it runs best that way. Forget
where I read it so don't ask me to site a resource. :)
Tim
On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Jared Noska wrote:
I believe you are correct on this. Something weird with Windows.
I am running VPC 7 w/ Win XP Pro - SP 1.
My VPC is quite slow... running at only 295 MHz -- My
Computer>Ctrl>Properties
But getting out of it is not a problem. I also assigned 512 to my
VPC - leaving 256 to X.
I suspect something inaccurate.. especially since this happened to
both of us.
Thanks for your insights!
On Dec 29, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Harry Corsover wrote:
What version of VPC are you running? I'm running 6.1.1 on an
AlBook 15" 1.25 GHz, 1GB RAM, with (if I recall) 512 MB of RAM
assigned to VPC, running XP Pro SP2 with all the latest updates/
patches. I find it the slowest computing experience I have ever
had. Things take incredibly long, and sometimes so long that I'm
not even sure the mouse click registered.
I tried the site you mentioned (using their Dallas TX location)
and got 5772/973. I find this quite hard to believe, since it is
almost twice the rated speed I get from my Earthlink DSL service.
I then tried <www.dslreports.com/stest> and got 1579/315 from
LinkLine in L.A., and 1796/333 from Speakeasy in Seattle. The
latter two are believable.
Switching back to Safari (which takes several minutes, since VPC
seems to take forever to let go) I ran tests at the same sites:
Speakeasy Dallas: 2122/307; Speakeasy Seattle: 2122/308; via
DSLReports.com: Speakeasy Seattle 2062/312; LinkLine, L.A.: 2191/272.
My take on this is that the Speakeasy test in Windows must be
inaccurate, since even if Windows/IE has an advantage, I don't see
how it's possible to get almost twice the nominal speed my DSL
service offers.
Regards,
Harry Corsover
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On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:56 AM, Jared Noska wrote:
Yesterday I had the chance to put Virtual PC on my system for
the first time [which is a new iBook 1.33]. Overall, I really
like the program and look forward to using and working with it. I
installed Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1 on it. I've had to do
some updates and stuff but overall, it is running smoothly.
There is only one odd thing: my internet. My internet works
great however I regularly do speed tests with speakeasy.net. When
I did it on VPC I think my internet tripled speed. I have checked
it at least a dozen times since last night. Same 1500/256 speed,
my regular being 512/128. And when I get back in to Mac it is
512/128. Anyone do the <www.speakeasy.net/speedtest> regularly or
does anyone use Virtual PC that could run a similar test?
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