Thanks Mike. I'd been seeing exactly the same thing, but through a different dsl provider. Took the same steps and got the same result ... now quite zippy. I have absolutely no idea why it worked.
Bill Holt > From: Mike Watkins <watk5926 at bellsouth.net> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:52:58 -0400 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: MacGroup: Very slow DSL... > > All, > > I have BellSouth's DSL and have always done very well with it. It used > to be super fast. Lately, I've been noticing that it's slowing down. > Yesterday, it refused to even open most websites, even my BellSouth > webmail. So I called BellSouth. Luckily, I got a rep who knew what to > do. > > He led me through System Preferences to Network. Under Proxies, he then > instructed me to remove the check before Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV). > He said it should only be checked if I use a dial-up system. > Wonder of all wonders, it worked... and today my Safari is again > lightning fast and wonderful. My E-mail has stopped giving me frequent > warnings that I may not be able to receive mail. I am happy. > > The only thing that puzzles me is why this seems to have been a > progressive slow-down, rather than an immediate failure. I have never > changed those settings since I have been using Jaguar. (I am on a 15" > flat screen iMac, version 10.2.8, if that matters.) > > Mike > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
