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Hi,
So I have a 2008 iMac (3,06Ghz, 4Gb ,500Gb) and for the past year its been terribly slow when it comes to surfing online. This may sound like a trivial complaint but it's really frustrating.
Quick overview of the problem and what I've tried:
- Really its not so much slow but rather that nothing happens for a long time and then maybe it loads the site or maybe it doesn't
- I've clocked 140Mb down on speedtest.net, so it shouldn't be my connection
- I also have an Acer 5920 laptop (even older than the iMac, 2007 or so).. It has no Problems loading several sites/tabs at the same time, and theres none of the "nothing happening, maybe it will work" that I have with the iMac. If its slow then it just loads slow, but something is still happening
- I've tried connecting the iMac directly to my Thomson router/modem with a cat5e ethernet cable. > No noticable difference (The PC became even faster)
- I've tried swithing the router to operate on 5Ghz from 2,4 Ghz> no noticable difference
- I've tried hooking up a A-Link b/g/n router that claims to do 300mb/s to the Thomson modem/router and connecting through it instead > no noticable difference
- My iPhone loads sites faster and more reliably than the iMac
- I've tried safari, firefox and google chrome.. No difference
All this leads me to believe there must be something wrong with my iMac, even though it still runs even demanding programs smoothly and I have no problems downloading something at my subsciptions max speed. The "slowness" only pertains to surfing, especially if I have several tabs open at the same time.
I have two theories:
#1: theres some sort of bottle neck that doesnt like "separate streams of data"(?)
#2: I only have about 20gb left of HD space, could this slow down the iMac? But then why is everything else running smoothly?
Any input would be much appreciated, I just spent the past 5 hours moving it close to the modem and testing different alternatives
Thanks!
(written with my iPhone, sure to contain some grammar mistakes)
Hi,
So I have a 2008 iMac (3,06Ghz, 4Gb ,500Gb) and for the past year its been terribly slow when it comes to surfing online. This may sound like a trivial complaint but it's really frustrating.
Quick overview of the problem and what I've tried:
- Really its not so much slow but rather that nothing happens for a long time and then maybe it loads the site or maybe it doesn't
- I've clocked 140Mb down on speedtest.net, so it shouldn't be my connection
- I also have an Acer 5920 laptop (even older than the iMac, 2007 or so).. It has no Problems loading several sites/tabs at the same time, and theres none of the "nothing happening, maybe it will work" that I have with the iMac. If its slow then it just loads slow, but something is still happening
- I've tried connecting the iMac directly to my Thomson router/modem with a cat5e ethernet cable. > No noticable difference (The PC became even faster)
- I've tried swithing the router to operate on 5Ghz from 2,4 Ghz> no noticable difference
- I've tried hooking up a A-Link b/g/n router that claims to do 300mb/s to the Thomson modem/router and connecting through it instead > no noticable difference
- My iPhone loads sites faster and more reliably than the iMac
- I've tried safari, firefox and google chrome.. No difference
All this leads me to believe there must be something wrong with my iMac, even though it still runs even demanding programs smoothly and I have no problems downloading something at my subsciptions max speed. The "slowness" only pertains to surfing, especially if I have several tabs open at the same time.
I have two theories:
#1: theres some sort of bottle neck that doesnt like "separate streams of data"(?)
#2: I only have about 20gb left of HD space, could this slow down the iMac? But then why is everything else running smoothly?
Any input would be much appreciated, I just spent the past 5 hours moving it close to the modem and testing different alternatives
Thanks!
(written with my iPhone, sure to contain some grammar mistakes)