(folks... sorry for the delay in responding to this thread, had trouble sending and was then away... Eric)
Thanks for your suggestion. What I neglected to mention in my original post is that I use DHCP at home with a Linksys wireless router serving IP addresses for my Comcast cable modem with the same results that you report. I do not have a fixed IP with Comcast as you have but my G4 Pismo boots and runs fine, no slowdowns and no problems (and the cable connection is actually faster than our internet connection at work!).
In the office where we are using the Apple DHCP server we only have maximum fifteen computers getting IP addresses and we're running on a switched 100BT network with Gigabit ethernet to the server. I haven't had time to troubleshoot the server and our network switch (Asante FriendlyNET GX4 w/ 24 100BT and 2 1000BT ports) and am just hoping that whatever the problem is will get resolved with Panther. We're not going to start moving people en masse to OS X until Panther anyhow so it's a minimal inconvenience in the meantime. If it's still a problem then I'll take the time to sort it out. However, if anyone has a clue I wouldn't mind you passing that info along, however!
... Eric
> I have the same Pismo upgrade as yours, and I use DHCP without any
> significant slowdown that I can detect. I have a cable modem feeding
> ethernet to a router/firewall that routes ethernet to my Airport Base which
> is configured as a simple bridge. My Pismo uses its' airport card and
> receives its' IP address via DHCP from the router/firewall. I have a fixed
> IP address with my cable company and a guaranteed 1MB down and 375 KB up.
> Surfing with Safari is super fast. How many machines are being served from
> your DHCP server? To me that would be where I would look for a slowdown.
>
> Joe Ellis
>
>
>> Stein:
>>
>> Not sure what your problem is. However, I have found that on my office
>> network if I use DHCP to get my TCP/IP information, the computer boots
>> and runs really slowly. The resolution is to put the IP informaiton in
>> statically. So... you may have a similar problem or you may want to
>> check out your networking as well.
>>
>> Also, if you haven't run "repair disk permissions" in Disk Utility in a
>> while I'd definitely run that... I run it after each and any software
>> installation.
>>
>> Haven't seen this problem noted by anyone else anywhere but I can
>> confirm it on a Pismo upgraded to a 500MHz G4 (Powerlogix) running
>> 10.2.6 and an original Powerbook G4 400MHz running 10.2.6. We're
>> running a dual-1GHz MDD G4 server w/ OS X.2.6 Server as the DHCP server.
>>
>> If anyone has any thoughts on how to use DHCP without this slowdown I'd
>> appreciate it as well (although I'm not optimistic about a
>> resolution... hoping Panther will resolve it)!
>>
>> ... Eric
>>
>>> I guess the subject states it best but more information helps. My
>>> Pismo G3/500/1gbRAM/10.2.6/20gb(stock)HD/Airport takes an incredibly
>>> long time to boot as well as shut down. I am startled at this due to
>>> its normally snappy OS 9 boot and shutdown processes. When my PowerMac
>>> 8600/g3-400/272mbRAM/10.2.6 using stock (and older) scsi hard drives
>>> beats the pants off of the Pismo, I know something is wrong.
>>>
>>> I had noticed it first when Jaguar was initially installed. It has
>>> never gone away or improved. I did try the PRAM reset (several times
>>> in a row) several times but that made no appreciable difference. It is
>>> about 1:15sec grey w/apple screen and then in less than 15 seconds
>>> will be at login screen. Once the blue background hits, things are
>>> very snappy.
>>>
>>> On shutting down, from login screen, it takes almost 45 seconds to go
>>> black. From desktop it takes as long as 1:20sec. This to me is
>>> ridiculous. In OS 9 it would shut down before the trackpad button had
>>> even gone 'click'.
>>>
>>> Any helpful ideas? Thanks for list brain power.
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