Increasing Your Connection Speed via the Network Adapter

Mean Servers doesn't shape or limit your bandwidth speed in anyway. Clients that purchase a VPS from Mean Servers have the ability to burst to the full line speed of our servers which is either 1Gbps or 10Gbps depending on the type of server you are on (enterprise customers are on 10Gbps capable servers while all other plans are on 1Gbps). In order to create a standard among provisioning our VPS clients, all VMs are provisioned with the Realtek 8139 network card.

We provision with the Realtek 8139 network card as it is universally supported across all Linux distros and Windows operating systems. The only problem with the Realtek 8139 is it only support 100Mbps speeds. This is changeable via the client area to either Intel PRO 1000 or Virtio allowing you to burst to the full 1Gbps or 10Gbps depending on your plan. The Intel PRO 1000 supports 1Gbps connections while the Virto network interface card supports up to 10Gbps. Changing to one of the faster cards is simple and requires a few steps if you are running a Linux distribution. If you are running a Windows operating system, you need to follow the additional steps to get the card working.

Step 1: Login to the SolusVM Control Panel

Step 2: Select your VPS you would like to change the network adapter for by clicking the green Manage button.

Step 3: Under the Controls area in SolusVM, click the Settings top menu option.

Step 4: Scroll down to the area that contains Network Card. From here, you are able to change Realtek 8139 to Intel PRO 1000 or Virtio. We recommend Virtio unless you have a specific reason for using Intel PRO 1000.

Step 5: Once you change the selection to your desired Network Card, click Set and then POWER DOWN your VPS and boot it back up (if your VPS is Windows, go directly to Step 6 without booting). If your VPS is powered by Linux, this is usually the last step unless using a less mainstream distro in which you may or may not need to load additional drives. Most distributions support Virtio out of the box. You can run the Reconfigure Network script under the General tab in the control section if you do not want to configure the network adapter manually. This step is only needed in a few instances as the settings for the most part from the Realtek 8139 to the new adapter don't change.

FOR WINDOWS USERS ONLY:

Step 6: Click Drivers from the top menu under the Control section in SolusVM.

Step 7: Select Windows Virtio Drivers v0.1.30 from the Drivers section and click Mount

Step 8: Boot your VPS and launch either the web based VNC Java Applet or connect via VNC to your VPS (your remote desktop will not work at the moment).

Step 9: Once the VPS has booted, open My Computer and click your CDROM and install the drivers set as you would any other software package.

Step 10: Once you have installed the Virtio drivers, you can now go to Network Connections via the Control Panel inside Windows and enter your IP address information via your newly created Network Adapter. Some users may require a reboot before this step.

Step 11: Once you have set your network adapter's IP address settings, you can shutdown the VPS once again and from the SolusVM, unmount the drivers disk the same way you originally mounted them in step 7.

Step 12: Boot your VPS back up and you should now be able to connect via RDP once again if you set everything properly in the new Virtio network adapter.

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