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joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 05:57 PM
Starting last night, my internet started working weird. My girlfriends' laptop worked fine. Mine is going so slow.

my throughput is 91K according to toast.net... That's 56K modem speed.

DSL is 291-900Kish.

My macbook's internet was working fine on campus today. It's just when I'm in my apartment.


joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 06:21 PM
please help this is brutal
Peace
Oct 13, 2008, 06:23 PM
You're not using comcast by any chance are you?
joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 06:24 PM
You're not using comcast by any chance are you?

no
johnjay1776
Oct 13, 2008, 06:26 PM
Well, since your girlfriend's laptop was working fine, I guess I'd have a question for you ... Well, a few of them anyway. Are we talking wired connection? Wireless? If wireless, is she using 802.11b? g? n? I guess what I'm getting at is that since this only happens to be at your apartment, perhaps someone is using a mobile phone that's messing with the reception on your laptop? I used to not be able to use an older cordless phone without bothering my wireless connection ...
joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 06:28 PM
Well, since your girlfriend's laptop was working fine, I guess I'd have a question for you ... Well, a few of them anyway. Are we talking wired connection? Wireless? If wireless, is she using 802.11b? g? n? I guess what I'm getting at is that since this only happens to be at your apartment, perhaps someone is using a mobile phone that's messing with the reception on your laptop? I used to not be able to use an older cordless phone without bothering my wireless connection ...
my wireless connection is a b/g/n.

I have G, she has G.
joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 06:29 PM
my wireless connection is a b/g/n.

I have G, she has G.

and theres no new wireless phones at all in our apartment
johnjay1776
Oct 13, 2008, 06:31 PM
and theres no new wireless phones at all in our apartment

Yeah, but what about your neighbor's apartment? Does this happen at all times of day?

Also, can you plug in an ethernet cable and see if you get the same poor response?
joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 06:43 PM
I changed the range the range thing from 11 to 1... tthis made it immediately faster.
joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 10:03 PM
its doing it again...seriously WTF
joedavis34
Oct 13, 2008, 10:48 PM
im not the only one...however, none of these are really working

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1231631&tstart=0
joedavis34
Oct 15, 2008, 11:12 PM
do do do