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I just had the most odd thing happen to me, I was playing around with speed tests and noticed that my Virtual Machine running windows 10 had a better upload and download speed than the windows 10 computer it is running on. I must admit i'm not a guy who knows a lot about how the internet works with routers and switches but what could be causing it to do that? I thought it could be all the random apps installed onto the main pc but I thought that would still slow down the VM (As they are using the same physical plug).

The VM can do 20.3 Mbps download and 7.41 Mbps upload BUT the main pc running the same VM only does 15.5 Mbps download and 3.29 Mbps Upload.

 

The VM is using NAT connection (Sharing the host IP address) if that makes any difference at all.

 

Image below proves it as well.

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I think I have the most unstable connection in the world... Because now its 23.38 download 3.58 upload for VM and 18.30 download 6.35 upload

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Mine are exactly the same as each other, give or take a few hundred KB is all. same when I'm using my VPN too.

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Most unstable internet ever, ran the test 4 times on the main pc and the results were

  1. 2.38 DOWNLOAD, 1.73 UPLOAD
  2. 4.97 DOWNLOAD, 4.00 UPLOAD
  3. 9.29 DOWNLOAD, 2.81 UPLOAD
  4. 10.30 DOWNLOAD, 7.68 UPLOAD

add on the other 2 i got before

  1. 18.30 DOWNLOAD, 6.35 UPLOAD
  2. 27.39 DOWNLOAD, 10.80 UPLOAD

And I have the fastest and slowest internet at the same time... gg

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