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How to Fix Slow Mac Wireless Internet!

angelo27CA said:
I too am having the slow inernet connection with myMac. Everytime I get out of sleep mode and get on the internet I have to turn my airport off for a minute and turn it back on. Then my internet will work fine. My internet should be blazing fast, I have AT&T Fiber Optic Internet 2Wire. I tried the 4.2.2.1 & the 4.2.2.2 and that worked until I put my Mac into sleep mode again and took it out. Right now I just took out those two and added the open DNS servers 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220. I am hoping this works, this is real frustrating having a brand new computer that crawls on the net.
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Hi Angelo, I also have AT&T 2Wire and a new MacBook Pro. My internet connection seems fast enough but more speed would be great. Did Open DNS Server change work?

Also, what is your internet speed using this free utility?

http://www.speedtest.net/
 
Open DNS Server change did not work...I ran the speed test and it timed out at 69% this thing is awful....Any more suggestions besides bringing this back to the Apple store?

1/5/09.........i just did the speed test, here are my results
 
I tried adding the Open DNS Server addresses in Leopard but saw little change if any. Then i deleted those and added 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 in DNS, still no change. Were those last two values supposed to be added under TCP/IP instead? If so, how? Thanks
 
Same issues

I have to hit refresh 2x for pages that have any kind of graphics to get them to load completely. PC has no problem. Using MACBOOK PRO 2.5 10.5.6 with 2wire
 
Awesome

speedtest.net said I was a little slower, but the machine responds much faster and the internet goes way WAY faster. Thanks for the tips.

hook'em
 
Still slow

Thanks for the suggestions, but I am still running into the same problem. I have two MacBooks. Both are running Leopard 10.5.6. Both run programs nice and fast. They are both running over a wireless internet connection, but one is really slow. And I mean painfully slow.

Any more suggestions? I have checked the network panels and they seem to be set up the same.

thanks,
Alexander
 
I am having the exact same issue. MBP 2.0 10.5.6. Have to refresh over and over to get pages to load, sometimes nothing. I am so frustrated...i have tried 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1 and the open dns. still no help. I feel like i am reading a lot of very similar posts and i cannot figure out if its the 10.5.6 update or what.
I am having wireless withdraw.
thanks
josh
 
behole said:
I am having the exact same issue. MBP 2.0 10.5.6. Have to refresh over and over to get pages to load, sometimes nothing. I am so frustrated...i have tried 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.1 and the open dns. still no help. I feel like i am reading a lot of very similar posts and i cannot figure out if its the 10.5.6 update or what.
I am having wireless withdraw.
thanks
josh
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Hey guys,

I maybe have the same problem. My friend is using macbook air and it has a wireless connection with airport express over 802.11g. PC is doing fine with airport express but mac is not.

Open up terminal and ping the router(type: ping 10.0.1.1 and then enter, ctrl-c to stop), I found extremely long response time, sometimes it even reaches more than a thousand mili-seconds to have a packet travels from mac to the router and then way back to mac. By the way, at the same time PC is behaving normally.

I conclude that slow connection is application independent, since the bottleneck happens at connection between mac and the router. I haven't tried the solution originally posted(which is to manually configure DNS server) but I don't think it would work in my case (I'll try doing it when my friend is available though).

The thing is that I'm wondering if you guys have exactly the same problem? If it is maybe we could share our common experiences like what router are you using or if slow connection remains with same mac while using boot camp and hopefully we can identify the cause and find a effective solution.

My friend will also try connecting other access points tomorrow and see if slow ping results remain. I'll get back to you when I have any findings.
 
This works. thanks. I heard a rumor on the internet saying that Qwest's actiontecs didn't work well with Macs. When I called to get there help and told them my PC was running noticeably faster than my mac they told me.."dollar for dollar your PC is going to get faster wireless than your Mac". plus...even if they're next to each other the mac could be picking up a weaker signal.

alot of it was canned answers. frustrating. but glad I found this.
 
Omg

OMG Thank you sooooooo Much. I was getting really annoyed with my computer. the 4.2 dns worked the but OP DNS servers worked much better!!!
 
No more slow wireless internet on my mac!

This is magic! Im with o2 in the UK and was doubtful it would work.
But guess what? It has sorted the wireless connection on my mac!

I'm guessing for some reason the default DNS slowed my wireless down?
I've informed o2 customer support to save them sending out hundreds of routers in an attempt to resolve this issue.

:D
 
Bacong said:
Why is this problem affecting so many people?
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it seems that putting in these addresses bypasses your ISPs (or the people your ISPs contracted) DNS servers - these servers are probably VERY fast and up to date with name resolution and whatnot... other then that im not sure why it 'seems' to be working so well..:confused:
 
Thanks so much for this!

I've tried so many things including reinstalling my OS and wiping the hard drive. You just made my day/week!
 
This worked BRILLIANTLY. Major thanks. Was wondering why Mac OS was so slow, but Windows 7 was blazing fast.
 
aaquib said:
How exactly do you do this on Leopard?
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Go to system preferences--> network--> click on your active internet connection--> click on advanced--> then go under the DNS tab and on the left side just use the plus button to add the server numbers

EDIT: After actually trying this and messing with my browser for a while, I DEFINITELY noticed a difference in the speed at which things loaded. Everyone should do this!
 
Not sure if this is the same issue but at work my wireless is fast. When I am at home my wireless is slow. It takes a long time to respond to each webpage I go to. It just says loading, then it says eventually found.. Like 15 seconds per page. Now I have two wireless routers, and if I connect into the older wireless router that isn't wireless N, it is fast! Only the N one is slow on this machine. My other pc's all are zippy with it in the house.

Any ideas?
 
nizmoz said:
Not sure if this is the same issue but at work my wireless is fast. When I am at home my wireless is slow. It takes a long time to respond to each webpage I go to. It just says loading, then it says eventually found.. Like 15 seconds per page. Now I have two wireless routers, and if I connect into the older wireless router that isn't wireless N, it is fast! Only the N one is slow on this machine. My other pc's all are zippy with it in the house.

Any ideas?
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thats odd indeed, is the N router a "piggy back" type thing to the older one, or is it on a completely separate network? also, make sure that there are no network conflicts. make sure your checking different webpages too (some might be going slow at the time or something)
 
DoFoT9 said:
thats odd indeed, is the N router a "piggy back" type thing to the older one, or is it on a completely separate network? also, make sure that there are no network conflicts. make sure your checking different webpages too (some might be going slow at the time or something)
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Completely separate. Any webpage I go to, even checking my mail is slow with my MAC on that wireless router.
 
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