Slow port forwarding through NAT

Hi there

As a starting vmWare Server (1.0.5) user I've set up the following:

Host: Win XP Pro SP3

Guest: Win XP Pro SP3 with abyss web server

The guest has 2 network cards:

NAT

Bridged

I wanted to use the guest as a webserver so I forwarded port 80 to the guest os, but... this is working really slow.

Why do I want it this way? I want to run multiple guests, but IP addresses cost money...

test:

http://85.17.134.98/10mb.bin (NAT - the guest accessed through the forwarded port on the host) SLOW (I get arround 15KBps)

http://85.17.134.99/10mb.bin (Bridged - the guest accessed directly) FAST (I get arround 1MBps)

Any idea what's wrong here?

thx