Maybe the Workstation VM is running on E-cores? This has been a problem with it since Intel 12th gen launched, performance can be all over the place.

1 - 2 off seasons for a top club before bouncing back and they can still be considered a top club throughout. At what point does a team just get called what it is, 5 seasons…. 10 seasons…. ManU has been a mid table club for so long I don’t understand why people still talk like it’s a disaster every time they lose a match. There are players in the league today who’s mums were still tying their bootlaces the last time ManU was a top club.

There’s some other problem, I have SMB shares saturating 10Gbps links over internally routed networks with no modifications. SMB does degrade quickly as latency goes up but it sounds like you’re saying it’s this slow on your internal network.