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MichaelC
Copper Contributor
May 20, 2025

Wifi Performance when using bridged Hyper-V NIC is slow

Others have brought this up but I can reproduce it pretty consistently. Is there any way to fix wifi performance when Hyper-V is enabled with a bridged Wifi NIC?

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  • JettStone's avatar
    JettStone
    Iron Contributor

    Bridging wireless adapters often reduces performance because wireless connectivity is more sensitive to shared bandwidth and driver issues.

  • FinleyGrove's avatar
    FinleyGrove
    Iron Contributor

    Instead of bridging the Wi-Fi adapter directly, create an Internal or External virtual switch in Hyper-V and connect your VM to it. Then, set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) or NAT on your host to share the Wi-Fi connection with the VM.  

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