Internet, router and browser problem? HELP!

Fast connection, SLOW BROWSERS!

Ok, running an iMac 10.5.4, 2Gigs of RAM, no problems before.

I have 3 machines hooked up through my router, this MAC, a 4 year old piece of junk PC laptop, and my PS3.

For whatever reason the laptop is (we have a 10+MBPS connection) blazingly fast surfing the web (both MAC and PC are using FireFox2, not 3), its far faster than the Mac.

What happens is, lets say on both I load a fresh page, the PC will load it up instantly, the mac will wait a few seconds while it says "looking up" in the browser and then load, but it loads noticeably slower (about 2-3 full seconds) than the PC.

Is there any settings in the Network I need to fiddle with? The PS3 and the PC are working fine through the net, but for whatever reason the Mac is slow going on the browser. I have tried Safari 3 and Firefox 3 and they both do the same thing!

Its very frustrating because the Mac is my main computer, the laptop is in another room and its never used for web browsing. I would really appreciate any help on this. Its driving me nuts.


(its a wired linksys router).

This is what its doing. I have a fast connection on all machines, but for whatever reason the MAC Browser is so darn slow........ looking up and transferring, it pauses on the browser.

I can't figure it out, I have not changed anything recently....

Have you tried using a different DNS for the Mac? You can try using OpenDNS and see if that helps. If it is having problems resolving names it should work.

https://www.opendns.com/start

I'll try that out and see what happens

Could this be giving me strange connection issues with the PS3 as well?

Technically if it is your DNS servers it should apply to all the machines, but I thought I read somewhere about OSX being particularly sensitive to it.

Doesn't surprise me really, so I changed it, I did what that link you provided asked me to, and so far it seems better on my Mac.

Hopefully this means I don't need to get a new router, and this working condition stays.