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Like my new macbook pro except for...
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I have tried several times to use the macbook pro with a direct connection via the cable.
I am still experincing the same troubles.
Many websites just take a long time to load if at all.
Sometimes if I restart the computer the pages that gave trouble will load.
Any other possbilities.
Thanks
I have tried several times to use the macbook pro with a direct connection via the cable.
I am still experincing the same troubles.
Many websites just take a long time to load if at all.
Sometimes if I restart the computer the pages that gave trouble will load.
Any other possbilities.
Thanks
buckwheat987 -- Safari may be contributing to your problem. I tried out Google's new browser, Google Chrome, and it loaded Web pages significantly more quickly than Safari does. Unfortunately, I had to give up on Chrome because it defaults to tabbed pages. OS X apparently does not have a keyboard shortcut to allow me to shift between pages so that made Chrome a non starter for me. In Safari, however, I can open a new Safari page for every new Web Page and then shift between each with the CMD-tilde (~) shortcut. If anybody knows a shortcut to use to shift between tabs, I would love to hear from you. If such a thing exists, I will use Chrome as my default browser.
I think Apple has some problems with this.
I have a MBP from 2007 and my girlfriend has a Macbook from 2008.
We can sit side by side on the same network and her machine will have a lot of internet problems. Some of her websites will half load, then she has to refresh. Gmail will sometimes take FOREVER to load when mine will breeze along with no problems.
I can stream a modestly sized video file to my PS3 with no problem while from hers files stutter and rebuffer constantly.
Changing routers helped somewhat, but hers is definitely noticeably slower than mine is.
We are both using Firefox by the way.
I have a MBP from 2007 and my girlfriend has a Macbook from 2008.
We can sit side by side on the same network and her machine will have a lot of internet problems. Some of her websites will half load, then she has to refresh. Gmail will sometimes take FOREVER to load when mine will breeze along with no problems.
I can stream a modestly sized video file to my PS3 with no problem while from hers files stutter and rebuffer constantly.
Changing routers helped somewhat, but hers is definitely noticeably slower than mine is.
We are both using Firefox by the way.
I found this at: http://ipv6int.net/systems/mac_os_x-ipv6.html
IPv6 is active by default; it can be manually activated either with the GUI network control panel or on the command line with /usr/sbin/ip6.
To start IPv6 on all interfaces:
ip6 -a
To disable it:
ip6 -x
I would have just explained the GUI from my MBP but the ATI card failed in it a couple of days ago :/ The commands above are entered in Terminal and require root access.
IPv6 is active by default; it can be manually activated either with the GUI network control panel or on the command line with /usr/sbin/ip6.
To start IPv6 on all interfaces:
ip6 -a
To disable it:
ip6 -x
I would have just explained the GUI from my MBP but the ATI card failed in it a couple of days ago :/ The commands above are entered in Terminal and require root access.
Earlier today, I finally found the Google Chrome help page that explained what the keyboard shortcuts for Chrome were. The shortcut to move between taps is <ctrl-tab>. The shortcut to move between pages remains the same as it was in Safari, <Cmd-tilde(`)>. In my iteration of Chrome, at least <Cmd-shift-+> or - instead of + changes the page's font size but that shortcut doesn't navigate between open tabs. Perhaps I have a later version than you do.
Finally discovering how to navigate in Chrome has made me adopt Chrome as my default browser because, for whatever reason, it is a lot faster than Safari and does other things I like better, too.
I thought that I saw an ip6 setup option for my Time Capsule router somewhere in AirPort Utility. I assume this means that your router would have to be either a Time Capsule of AirPort Extreme. In any event, I don't know whether that would resolve the issue involved here.
It means by default OSX is using two TCP/IP stacks, one for IPv4 and one for IPv6. It has to determine which of the stacks to use for any network traffic but since IPv6 isn't yet widespread, it's unneeded.
It helped my issue, but hard to say if it will have any significant impact here. Worst case, it will eliminate another variable in the troubleshooting.
It helped my issue, but hard to say if it will have any significant impact here. Worst case, it will eliminate another variable in the troubleshooting.
thanks...but this is out of my realm of expertise....I will make another appointment for 1 to1 and show the genius your suggestion...
Might just be your settings configured on your MacBook Pro, did you have everything set to automatically or static?
When I 1st switched over to Macs many years ago, I made the mistake of running the Comcast setup software. Basically screwed up Safari. I had to undo a setting or 2. I forget exactly what it was. Go to your network setting / Proxies. Make sure there's nothing checked.
1 to 1 is cool, but this isn't nearly as bad as it looks. In fact, I posted the terminal commands because I couldn't find a GUI walkthrough (and my mac's dead).
Essentially, you go to System Preferences -> Network, and poke around until you find a checkbox related to Enabling IPv6. Just uncheck it.
I seem to recall getting there via an 'Advanced' button on one of the panes under Network.
Ok...many thanks...done. Lets see what happens.
The thing that makes it even worse is that macrumors is one of the sites that takes the longest to load....its a killer.