VMWare Client slow http download

[SoulA]

Sorry to drudge up an old thread but I am also having a similar issue and rather than creating a new post this seemed more appropriate.

Using the latest from git (5cbdc4177) and am getting, alteast what I think, are slow download speeds on vmxnet3 using ipxe. I'm fairly new to ipxe so I'm not sure what slow/fast are in the ipxe world but downloading a ~220MB file is taking ~1 minute.

I did see that ipxe has a vmxnet3 driver and you can build a rom specifically for vmxnet3 on this page:

http://ipxe.org/howto/vmware

I am not doing this however and am just chain booting to ipxe.pxe/undionly.kpxe. Does this method not load that vmxnet3 driver properly? Is there something else I might need to do to get things to go faster? Is this as fast as things go?