Hi and I am posting to see if anyone has experience or insight into what may be happening. I have a Netgear wireless router connected to a cable modem. Cable modem is getting 6Mb/s download and 0.52Mb/s consistently, which is verified by speedtest.net. When I use IBM thinkpad thru the netgear, the speeds drop to 2.5Mb/s consistently but remain steady. When I use my MacBook (2.2G Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.5.6) the *first* speedtest comes in at 2.5Mb/s but when you repeat the test, it drops to 1.2, then 1.0, then nothing. Downloads of email routinely time out and an iTunes download of 30MB audio podcast can take 40 minutes if at all. And the Thinkpad runs flawlessly.
Everything in network preferences looks OK -- automatic settings, DHCP, etc. so nothing that I can detect is anomalous. My only conclusion is that some incompatibility between Netgear and Apple OS X is causing packets to crash, or not be tracked properly causing downloads to hang. I've been on this for 3 weeks now (I even rewired my entire condo to upgrade the cabling to RS6 at $700!) and am just about to switch out the Netgear for a Linksys router, so if anyone has other ideas for how to solve this without a surgical strike, let me know!
thanks
Everything in network preferences looks OK -- automatic settings, DHCP, etc. so nothing that I can detect is anomalous. My only conclusion is that some incompatibility between Netgear and Apple OS X is causing packets to crash, or not be tracked properly causing downloads to hang. I've been on this for 3 weeks now (I even rewired my entire condo to upgrade the cabling to RS6 at $700!) and am just about to switch out the Netgear for a Linksys router, so if anyone has other ideas for how to solve this without a surgical strike, let me know!
thanks