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Google hates my MacBook?

ModestPenguin

ModestPenguin

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I have issues apparently. When my macbook is on Wifi on my home network, it refuses to go to Google.com, check gmail, or do anythign google related.

I have no idea what is up. Its been like this for a while and I am tired of hoping it would just go away.

Any ideas?


Things of note:

Linksys WRT-300N wifi router

Google and gmail work on ethernet, not wifi

Neighbors Wifi works fine and dandy with google and gmail

iPhone works fine and dandy on home wifi with Gmail

Office wifi works with macbook on google and gmail.

getting moderately frustrated.
 
here are the results from pinging google.

Ping has started ...

PING google.com (72.14.207.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=41.252 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=41.331 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=42.253 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=246 time=42.828 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=246 time=41.696 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=246 time=41.439 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=246 time=41.265 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=246 time=41.536 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=246 time=40.729 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=246 time=42.559 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 40.729/41.689/42.828/0.623 ms
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what does this mean?
 
Safari sits with the blue bar about 1/8th of the way loaded.

forever.

I've given it 2 hours now and the screen is white.


Mail.app says
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account "Gmail" or try again.

The server error encountered was: The connection to the server "pop.gmail.com" on port 0 timed out.
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But if I plug into ethernet all problems go poof.
 
This may be a stupid question, but does Firefox do the same thing?
 
ModestPenguin said:
indeed it does. As does Camino
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Hmmm...that is odd. Have you tried resetting Safari? It's a long shot, but maybe it'll have a positive effect. I'm not holding out hope though; I'm actually stalling so I can think of something a bit better:p

Edit: Have you tried going through another site? Go to yahoo and do a search for Google. Does it work? If not, does stopping and then refreshing help?
 
CalBoy said:
Hmmm...that is odd. Have you tried resetting Safari? It's a long shot, but maybe it'll have a positive effect. I'm not holding out hope though; I'm actually stalling so I can think of something a bit better:p

Edit: Have you tried going through another site? Go to yahoo and do a search for Google. Does it work? If not, does stopping and then refreshing help?
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Resetting safari.... no help

Google through yahoo.....no dice

Stop+refresh....s**t out of luck

this sucks.
 
ModestPenguin said:
Resetting safari.... no help

Google through yahoo.....no dice

Stop+refresh....s**t out of luck

this sucks.
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Well, that was simple stuff anyways, and I doubted it was going to work. I really can't think as to why this is happening. It's got me puzzled:eek:
 
I'm having the exact same problem with some websites.

There is a small discussion at the apple forum about this :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1113862

some sites do not load at all when I'm on wireless. If I plug in the ethernet cable the problem is gone.

This problem started after upgrading to 10.4.10, and I'm also having the other "known" 10.4.10 networking problems.
I hope apple comes up with a fix real soon.
 
ModestPenguin said:
When my macbook is on Wifi on my home network, it refuses to go to Google.com, check gmail, or do anythign google related.
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Same here. A netgear wifi router. The wired PC works just fine (for once), but no google love for the Mac. Not through Firefox, Safari or nothing since the latest os x update. This is very crippling, and i hope to get it solved soon. Thanks for the help so far in this thread guys!
 
viskwal said:
There is a small discussion at the apple forum about this :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1113862
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Alright, seems like -Kryten- on the apple discussion board solved the problem for me, i quote. AHEM:

It very much sounds like a DNS (Domain Name Server) issue. Try the following:

1. Fire up System Preferences
2. Select Network
3. Select your connection method (Built-in Ethernet or Airport) and click on the "Configure..." button in the bottom
4. Ensure the TCP/IP tab is selected
5. In the DNS Servers field type:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

When you type in the first DNS address press Return and then you'll be able to type the second DNS address in the same field but directly under the first one.

6. Click on the "Apply Now" button.
7. Restart the Mac.​

INSTANT success. =)
A curious notice is that i had not typed in any DNS servers before, how about others with the same problems? Had you manually configured your DNS addresses?
 
iLEZ said:
Alright, seems like -Kryten- on the apple discussion board solved the problem for me, i quote. AHEM:

It very much sounds like a DNS (Domain Name Server) issue. Try the following:

1. Fire up System Preferences
2. Select Network
3. Select your connection method (Built-in Ethernet or Airport) and click on the "Configure..." button in the bottom
4. Ensure the TCP/IP tab is selected
5. In the DNS Servers field type:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

When you type in the first DNS address press Return and then you'll be able to type the second DNS address in the same field but directly under the first one.

6. Click on the "Apply Now" button.
7. Restart the Mac.​

INSTANT success. =)
A curious notice is that i had not typed in any DNS servers before, how about others with the same problems? Had you manually configured your DNS addresses?
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Just a pointer, it's usually a bad idea to put in someone elses DNS server into your config, that DNS server could be anywhere, and as it does all the address resolving it can really badly mess with your internet connection, however the DNS entries he's given you are for openDNS (http://www.opendns.com/) so those are good ones to use as they are set up to be used worldwide and in most cases improve internet speeds :)
 
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