Internet Issues

Welcome to cable. Concast?

 

Make sure you disable IPv6 in your networking preferences pane for TCPIP. It causes a lot of slow downs for some Apple computers.

 

I had lots of problems until I changed my DNS server - for some reason the default DNS server would load pages 1/2 way and then safari would stall and sit there for awhile and then finish. I use openDNS now and it's much better. This is on time warner, FWIW.

[opendns is free and has several other benefits as well]

 

try doing a traceroute on one of the pages that is hanging and see if you are getting timeouts somewhere along the route.
for instance in a terminal window do traceroute google.com

 

If you are using an AVM router it is a known issue with Safari. You need to set your cable DNS server IPs fixed in the router as already said by some other posters.

 

No, DHCP is supposed to remain. The DNS setting is something different. DNS is an external adress of a name server which translates all alphanumeric urls into numeric IP adresses. DHCP is the automatic address directory of your internal network.

You can find the address of your cable networks DNS server in the documentation of your provider. This IP address for DNS you can insert into the networking settings for Airport or Ethernet depending of what you use.

 

My GF's macbook continues to have trouble stalling on some pages... I'll check out OpenDNS... is there any trick to it or it's just a matter of plugging in their DNS server addresses into your network settings preferences?

 

That's pretty much it. They have a walkthrough on their site.

Maybe everyone's still downloading MJ videos in your area??

 

You mean I might be killing her connection!