diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
index 9f92d5a3..9ba13531 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -75,15 +75,20 @@ jobs:
             tests/AcDream.Launcher.Core.Tests \
             tests/AcDream.UI.Abstractions.Tests ; do
             echo "::group::$p"
-            # MaxParallelThreads is capped because this runner is a small
-            # container. Under full-assembly parallel load
-            # FakeAceTransportTests.PausedSelector_SeededDroppedServerReady_
-            # RecoversOnIdleSweep took 37 s and missed its 2 s real-time wait,
-            # while passing 5/5 in ~350 ms in isolation. Timing-sensitive, not
-            # broken: starve it less rather than edit Campaign N transport code.
+            # Core.Net drives real network sessions on background threads. On
+            # this small container, full-assembly parallelism starves them:
+            # measured on the runner itself, the assembly FAILS in 40 s with
+            # default parallelism and PASSES in 10 s with one thread — serial is
+            # both correct AND faster here. Windows (18 cores) is unaffected and
+            # keeps default parallelism; serializing it there previously caused
+            # a regression, so this stays scoped to Linux.
+            extra=()
+            case "$p" in
+              *Core.Net.Tests) extra=(-- xUnit.MaxParallelThreads=1) ;;
+            esac
             dotnet test "$p" -c Release --nologo \
               --filter 'Lane!=InstalledDat&Lane!=PreparedPackage&Lane!=Live&Lane!=Manual&Lane!=Windows&Lane!=SystemFont&Purpose!=Diagnostic&Status!=KnownFailure' \
-              -- xUnit.MaxParallelThreads=2
+              "${extra[@]}"
             echo "::endgroup::"
           done