Is VMware killing My connectivity??

[patrick weaver]

It has gotten so the TAs in the CTC see me coming and just start to cry. I have no usable connectivity from my laptop inthe CTC. Could this be because of VMWARE? ? It seems as though it has been getting worse all semester. And I have been adding new machines all semester...Is there a cure without deleting my machines??Auuugh! ( waah) -p

[marcromansky]

Technically it shouldn't , but then again, it killed my truck.....
I wonder what layer VMWare operates at, my guess is at the higher layers (TCP model), while establishing a connection whould happen at a fairly low layer. WMWare time slices your NIC, so potentially several apps using it at once could possibley cause dropped packets, but I don't think it would cause a lower level drop. Before VMWare ate my laptop's video card, I never had any trouble being connected on both the corporate network or my own home network wirelessly.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

[quote="patrick weaver"]It has gotten so the TAs in the CTC see me coming and just start to cry. I have no usable connectivity from my laptop inthe CTC. Could this be because of VMWARE? ? It seems as though it has been getting worse all semester. And I have been adding new machines all semester...Is there a cure without deleting my machines??Auuugh! ( waah) -p[/quote]