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I came home last night, and turned on the computer to surf the web. What i found was a really slow connection. I thought. ***? y?
i did recognize this slowness b4, on three occasions the connection was excruciatingly slow, so i panicked and tried all my apps connected to the web. mail, didn't connect. adium, same. safari, loaded slower than dialup., and so i tried opera, opened it and all my mail loaded up, adium contact list became filled up, and the page in safari loaded up in a second. so i closed opera, and went bak to safari. i just shrugged it off, hoping it wouldn't happen again (happened 2 more times)
so i come back yesterday night, and its really slow. so i try the opera thing again, however this time, no luck. i load a page in opera, it takes the same time as in safari.
so i open activity monitor and see its about 4 kb/s with short burst of 50 kb/s , and an occasional 115kb/s.
i decided to turn off the mac. and with that, turn off the modem (i also unplugged both devices). i waited 20 seconds for each individual device, and plugged them in as well as turned them on. so i log on, start up safari, and still no luck. I open up sys. pref. go to network, its says its connected to so-and-so IP, ok, i go to firewall, and its says only allow essential services, but in the box below, it says Printer Sharing, and ODS Agent, (i don know wat it is, but its in core services, so i don touch it.
i load up all my apps that rely on the internet, mail barely loads, adium doesn't at all, and safari...
i don know what it is... it was raining last night, and this morning its foggy..
here are my specs: imac osx 10.5.2
and outdoor wireless modem (catches signal from towers, as i live in rural area.)
somebody please leave suggestions.
srry if this is in the wrong place
thx...
i did recognize this slowness b4, on three occasions the connection was excruciatingly slow, so i panicked and tried all my apps connected to the web. mail, didn't connect. adium, same. safari, loaded slower than dialup., and so i tried opera, opened it and all my mail loaded up, adium contact list became filled up, and the page in safari loaded up in a second. so i closed opera, and went bak to safari. i just shrugged it off, hoping it wouldn't happen again (happened 2 more times)
so i come back yesterday night, and its really slow. so i try the opera thing again, however this time, no luck. i load a page in opera, it takes the same time as in safari.
so i open activity monitor and see its about 4 kb/s with short burst of 50 kb/s , and an occasional 115kb/s.
i decided to turn off the mac. and with that, turn off the modem (i also unplugged both devices). i waited 20 seconds for each individual device, and plugged them in as well as turned them on. so i log on, start up safari, and still no luck. I open up sys. pref. go to network, its says its connected to so-and-so IP, ok, i go to firewall, and its says only allow essential services, but in the box below, it says Printer Sharing, and ODS Agent, (i don know wat it is, but its in core services, so i don touch it.
i load up all my apps that rely on the internet, mail barely loads, adium doesn't at all, and safari...
i don know what it is... it was raining last night, and this morning its foggy..
here are my specs: imac osx 10.5.2
and outdoor wireless modem (catches signal from towers, as i live in rural area.)
somebody please leave suggestions.
srry if this is in the wrong place
thx...