Hi everyone, I wonder if someone might be able to offer some advice.
I have an iMac from 2008 running OS 10.5.8. When I bought it, I initially lived on a school campus and ran it through the school's internet (which incidentally had TONS of website blocks and firewalls). The net was always very fast though.
In August of 2008 I moved off campus and got Comcast for my cable/landline/internet. From the very moment that they set it up, my Firefox and Safari run VERY slowly, particularly eBay and anything with logins. It's maddening, because I've now had three separate techs from Comcast come here over the past year and change, do a test that shows me running extremely fast according to their "findings", and they always say it's my computer. None of them has ever known anything about Macs.
Finally, the latest tech said he thinks it's some sort of hidden firewall system that's causing it, because he pointed out that, during any given internet session, the SECOND time a site is visited, it's a bit faster (still not what it should be). He could not help me, and the stuff I've googled was not of any use either. I did cancel the landline and he changed my modem to Comcast's regular cable modem box, but no visible change to browsing.
I need my internet! Does anyone have any idea why a great new Mac would run browsers so slow? Incidentally, AOL runs just fine (just the IMs and email part though).
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Alex
I have an iMac from 2008 running OS 10.5.8. When I bought it, I initially lived on a school campus and ran it through the school's internet (which incidentally had TONS of website blocks and firewalls). The net was always very fast though.
In August of 2008 I moved off campus and got Comcast for my cable/landline/internet. From the very moment that they set it up, my Firefox and Safari run VERY slowly, particularly eBay and anything with logins. It's maddening, because I've now had three separate techs from Comcast come here over the past year and change, do a test that shows me running extremely fast according to their "findings", and they always say it's my computer. None of them has ever known anything about Macs.
Finally, the latest tech said he thinks it's some sort of hidden firewall system that's causing it, because he pointed out that, during any given internet session, the SECOND time a site is visited, it's a bit faster (still not what it should be). He could not help me, and the stuff I've googled was not of any use either. I did cancel the landline and he changed my modem to Comcast's regular cable modem box, but no visible change to browsing.
I need my internet! Does anyone have any idea why a great new Mac would run browsers so slow? Incidentally, AOL runs just fine (just the IMs and email part though).
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Alex