This is the second night in a row. After 5 pm, my Mac gets really slow. Last night I thought it was just having wifi issues, but I have two Windows laptops, an Apple TV, two iPads, my iPhone, an Apple TV and a PS4 all using it and they're running just fine. And fwiw, none of them are using any bandwidth at this time. Finally last night I powered it off and said to heck with it. This morning it was back to its snappy self.
BTW this is a 2019 16" MacBook Pro, 8-core i9, 64gb RAM, 2tb SSD that I've had for about six months. Until yesterday, it's been completely flawless.
Anyway.. so after 5 pm, it started doing it again. I've already shut it down once. But what I've discovered is that the whole machine has slowed WAY down. Yet Task Manager does not show anything using any notable CPU power. The fan is purring along quietly at 1800 rpm (can't even hear it). it's just SLOW.
So I put it on my iPhone hotspot. Yep, even on that, it's about 1/10th the speed as it should be, network-wise. Try to launch an app? Very slow. Click on an icon in the dock. Nothing happens. A moment later, it bounces a few times. Then a few seconds later, the app loads. Normally, it's instantaneous.
Last night I reset the NVRAM and the SMC; neither did any good.
I tried different browsers... all have the same issue.
More than anything, it's wifi speed that is suffering. It's "rate" of "slowness" is greater than the slowness of the Mac itself, though the Mac itself is still slower than it should be. And it's not a beachball thing either. I'm not getting lots of beach balls. It's just... slow to respond and slow to function.
I don't get it. Over ten years of owning Macs and this is a new issue... btw I'm still on Catalina. Haven't really wanted to update to Big Sur yet.
Anybody else ever seen an issue like this? Actually, in the few minutes that it's taken to write this, the computer itself has sped up a bit, but still isn't 100% what it normally is. Network speed (via wifi) is still pathetic.
BTW this is a 2019 16" MacBook Pro, 8-core i9, 64gb RAM, 2tb SSD that I've had for about six months. Until yesterday, it's been completely flawless.
Anyway.. so after 5 pm, it started doing it again. I've already shut it down once. But what I've discovered is that the whole machine has slowed WAY down. Yet Task Manager does not show anything using any notable CPU power. The fan is purring along quietly at 1800 rpm (can't even hear it). it's just SLOW.
So I put it on my iPhone hotspot. Yep, even on that, it's about 1/10th the speed as it should be, network-wise. Try to launch an app? Very slow. Click on an icon in the dock. Nothing happens. A moment later, it bounces a few times. Then a few seconds later, the app loads. Normally, it's instantaneous.
Last night I reset the NVRAM and the SMC; neither did any good.
I tried different browsers... all have the same issue.
More than anything, it's wifi speed that is suffering. It's "rate" of "slowness" is greater than the slowness of the Mac itself, though the Mac itself is still slower than it should be. And it's not a beachball thing either. I'm not getting lots of beach balls. It's just... slow to respond and slow to function.
I don't get it. Over ten years of owning Macs and this is a new issue... btw I'm still on Catalina. Haven't really wanted to update to Big Sur yet.
Anybody else ever seen an issue like this? Actually, in the few minutes that it's taken to write this, the computer itself has sped up a bit, but still isn't 100% what it normally is. Network speed (via wifi) is still pathetic.
