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OSX Internet connect slows to crawl
Name: Marcos Duroe Date: March 17, 2003 at 05:28:07 Pacific OS: OSX CPU/Ram: G4 633 512Mb
Comment:
I have a Powerbook G4 633, 512MB Ram, and after upgrading to 10.2.4, noticed that the IP stack seems to slow to a crawl on dial-up or Cable if the connection is initiated from the Mac. The irony is (and this took some figuring out), if you connect to a dial-up PC running XP with Internet connection sharing installed the connection is faster than either dial-up or cable initiated from the Mac. I can find no info on this. It is *not* a ram issue. I have plenty, and carefully watching the underlying processses gives no indication of this. If anyone has any ideas of pointers as to why this happens, I would really appreciate the feedback.
Name: the pickle Date: March 17, 2003 at 13:41:18 Pacific
Reply:
See if any of the cache cleaning utilities on macupdate.com help out at all. Also, read the KBase articles on setting MTU and Ethernet duplex mode at startup - might be something useful there. Links are on Macintouch; check the recent news section.
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