At 5:22 PM -0400 10/11/2008, Wilton Shaw wrote: >eMac, using OS 10.5.5. >Verizon DHL
Is this ADSL -- you can use the internet while you talk on the telephone, or some other versions? What speed service, downstream and up? >things have slowed way down. We're going to need specifics. "things" covers a lot. Does the problem occur with other applications, or just Safari? What about with Firefox? >When I open Safari I have to wait 20 or more seconds for the home >page to open. When I try to open any other page, the blue ribbon at >the top of the page takes 20 to 60 seconds to cross from left to >right to reach a point that activates any movement. Have you tried clearing Safari's cache and website icons? Does this delay seem to be while the browser is trying to find the site, or while it's obtaining data from it? Look at the bottom of the window - is it "stuck" saying contacting or connecting or ...? Run a speed test here and tell us the results: <http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/> Launch Terminal.app and issue these two commands, then copy the full results and paste 'em into a reply here: dig www.google.com traceroute www.google.com HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
