Slow mac on a wireless router

[Dabba]

For reasons only I can truly understand I've set up an azurewave wireless router for my cable broadband at home. The PC I'm using as I type, which I've connected to the router through ethernet, is humming away nicely and a PC laptop also works well on the wireless side of things.
However my new work-owned Macbook is sooooo slow at internet access through airport. Anyone got any tips to speed it up? If I can't then I may as well return the router.

(no pc v. mac quips pleeeeeeeeeease - at heart I'm a mac person but I've been using a PC so long now I'm no longer ambidextrous ).



Dave

 

[llotse]

For reasons only I can truly understand I've set up an azurewave wireless router for my cable broadband at home. The PC I'm using as I type, which I've connected to the router through ethernet, is humming away nicely and a PC laptop also works well on the wireless side of things.
However my new work-owned Macbook is sooooo slow at internet access through airport. Anyone got any tips to speed it up? If I can't then I may as well return the router.

(no pc v. mac quips pleeeeeeeeeease - at heart I'm a mac person but I've been using a PC so long now I'm no longer ambidextrous ).



Dave

Occasionally I get similar when connecting to BT home networks, everything seems ok then for some reason it seems to slow. I think it is something to do with having a windows machine connected to the network at the same time but can't find out exactly why. My fix is to restart the Mac and the wireless router then reconnect and it is normally blazingly fast (by BT standards!) for a few days. Hope this helps. You could also try switching on or off interference robustness in the Airport settings on the machine.

 

[Carl]

Try disabling IPv6

System prefs --> Network --> Select Airport, click "advanced" button, click "TCP/IP" tab and set Configure IPv6:Off

OS X Leopard may try to resolve a hostname to an IPv6 address before IPv4... If the DNS server doesnt properly handle that type of request it can cause a slowdown.

You could also try switching on or off interference robustness in the Airport settings on the machine.

I dont think the option for interference robustness is available in leopard...

 

[bowser]

try looking at you channel settings, mine were set to auto and I got really slow speeds, I have now set mine to channel 11 and it runs much quicker.


I would like to say I know why but I don't have a clue it was a bit of advice from a friend and it worked a treat for me.

 

[Dabba]

No joy I'm afraid

Have tried the tips (and thanks) but no joy , speedtest.net is telling me 200 kbps download speed for the Mac whilst the PC is getting literally 10 times that.

any other ideas?:eyesdown

 

[(RIP) philgunn]

dabba - thanks for the link

to speedtest .net never checked my speeds before I run a mac G4 on os10.4 and down load is 2610 KB/s and upload 313 KB/s is this good

pg

 

[Dabba]

Its more of a test of your ISP really Phil and depends what broadband you've purchased - your getting 2.4 Mb per sec so if youre paying for 2 thats great, but if paying for 4 not so good. Its wise to run the test at different times in the day to see what the average is then you can see value for money. Uploads are usually much lower. Seems we are mostly paying for more than we get when it comes to broadband (although my Virgin one seems ok).

Dave