Upload speed inside Docker Container is limited to 4 Mbit/s - docker

I am new to dockers and I have a docker container running for a set of students with some version-specific compilers and it's a part of a virtual laboratory setup.
Everything is fine with the setup except for the network. I have a 200 Mbps network and this is a speed test done on my phone on the same 200 Mbps network.
I did a speed test on the host machine where the docker container is running. It is running on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It is all good.
From inside the docker container running on the above host machine, I did a speed test with the same server ID 9898 and with an auto-selected server too.
We can see that the upload speed inside the docker container is limited to 4 Mbit/s somehow. I cannot find a reason why elsewhere.
I have seen recently that many students experienced connection drops during their attempt to connect to our SSH server. I believe this has something to do with the bandwidth limit.
The docker run command I am using to run this container build is as follows.
$ sudo docker run -p 7766:22 --detach --name lahtp-serv-3 --hostname lahtp-server --mount source=lahtp-3-storage-hdd,target=/var/lahtp-storage main:0.1
I asked a few people who suggested to run the container with net=host which will run the container with the host network instead of the docker network. I would like to know why docker container limits the upload bandwidth and how using the host network instead of the docker network fixes the issue?
Update #1:
I tried to spawn a new Ubuntu 18.04 container with the following command:
$ sudo docker run --net=host -it ubuntu:18.04 /bin/bash
Once inside the container, I installed the following to run the speedtest.
root#lahtp-server:/# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install build-essential openssh-server speedtest-cli
Once the installation is done, here is the results.
But adding --net=host does not change the issue. The upload speed is still 4 Mbit/s
How to remove this bandwidth throttling?
Update #2
I spawned a new Ubuntu 14.04 docker container using the following command
$ sudo docker run -it ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash
Once the container is up, I installed the following
$ apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip
$ pip3 install speedtest-cli
And tested inside this container, and here are the results.
NO THROTTLING.
Did the same with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, No throttling.
$ sudo docker run -it ubuntu:16.04 /bin/bash
And once inside the container
$ apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip
$ pip3 install speedtest-cli
NO THROTTLING.

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here_we_get_some_file_content
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Step 1/30 : FROM ubuntu:16.04 as installer
---> 4a689991aa24
Step 2/30 : RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends curl -y
---> Running in 72378a1be045
...
Step 3/30 : RUN curl 127.0.0.1:22334/some_file.txt
---> Running in 41a4c470337b
curl: (3) <url> malformed
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I'm building an image for github's Linkurious project, based on an image already in the hub for the neo4j database. the neo image automatically runs the server on port 7474 and my image runs on port 8000.
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* Edit I *
here's my Dockerfile:
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* Edit II *
to perhaps help explain my quandary, I've asked a different question
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See also "Difference between “expose” and “publish” in docker".
See also an example with "Advanced Usecase with Docker: Connecting Containers"
Make sure though that the ip is the right one ($(docker-machine ip default)).
If you are using a VM (meaning, you are not using docker directly on a Linux host, but on a Linux VM with VirtualBox), make sure the mapped ports 7474 and 8000 are port forwarded from the host to the VM.
VBoxManage controlvm boot2docker-vm natpf1 "name,tcp,,7474,,7474"
VBoxManage controlvm boot2docker-vm natpf1 "name,tcp,,8000,,8000"
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ENTRYPOINT ["/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["neo4j"]
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I have a very basic doubt regarding docker.
I have a docker host installed in ubuntuA.
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# curl https://get.docker.io/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-latest -o /usr/local/bin/docker
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker
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or
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$ docker images
see more detail in http://docs.docker.com/articles/basics/
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