no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread tina
hi all,

I can't get more than 14 Mbit from my 50 Mbit connection

the line is tested with two different windows machines that get the 50
Mbit fine

my 17 powerbook g4 ti running 10.4.11, and my husbands white g5 imac
running 10.5.8 both get only 14 Mbit

the powerbook has a 10/100 ethernet card and it is set to full duplex

I find this soo strange

any ideas out there?

tia

/tina

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Re: no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread Nestamicky
On 14-01-17 6:26 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
 hi all,
 
 I can't get more than 14 Mbit from my 50 Mbit connection
 
 the line is tested with two different windows machines that get the 50
 Mbit fine
 
 my 17 powerbook g4 ti running 10.4.11, and my husbands white g5 imac
 running 10.5.8 both get only 14 Mbit
 
 the powerbook has a 10/100 ethernet card and it is set to full duplex
 
 I find this soo strange
 
 any ideas out there?
 
 tia
 
 /tina

Hi /Tina,

Are we talking wired or wireless connections.

If wireless, would you consider resetting your wireless network
settings, including keychains? This is presuming you made recent changes
to your router.

That the speed on both machines is the same, would suggest that the
issue, the bottleneck is on your router. It's indeed strange that both
machines will trottle at the same speed.

If you have another router at home, I'd suggest you dig that out and try
it. Alternatively, if you can bypass your router, that might be good.

I'm willing to wager a few krone that the problem is the router.

Cheers

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Re: no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread Alex Sciortino
Do you have the same problem on the PowerBook if you take it to a friends
house? If it is fine there, it is the router, if not, it is your machines.
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On 1/17/14, 6:55 AM, Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote:

On 14-01-17 6:26 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
 hi all,
 
 I can't get more than 14 Mbit from my 50 Mbit connection
 
 the line is tested with two different windows machines that get the 50
 Mbit fine
 
 my 17 powerbook g4 ti running 10.4.11, and my husbands white g5 imac
 running 10.5.8 both get only 14 Mbit
 
 the powerbook has a 10/100 ethernet card and it is set to full duplex
 
 I find this soo strange
 
 any ideas out there?
 
 tia
 
 /tina

Hi /Tina,

Are we talking wired or wireless connections.

If wireless, would you consider resetting your wireless network
settings, including keychains? This is presuming you made recent changes
to your router.

That the speed on both machines is the same, would suggest that the
issue, the bottleneck is on your router. It's indeed strange that both
machines will trottle at the same speed.

If you have another router at home, I'd suggest you dig that out and try
it. Alternatively, if you can bypass your router, that might be good.

I'm willing to wager a few krone that the problem is the router.

Cheers

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Re: no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread Dan

At 2:26 PM +0100 01/17/2014, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
I can't get more than 14 Mbit from my 50 Mbit connection the line is 
tested with two different windows machines that get the 50 Mbit fine 
my 17 powerbook g4 ti running 10.4.11, and my husbands white g5 
imac running 10.5.8 both get only 14 Mbit

the powerbook has a 10/100 ethernet card and it is set to full duplex
I find this soo strange


Those Macs are certainly capable of doing much better.  By example, 
both my 300-MHz Smurf (G3; Tiger) and 933-MHz QuickSilver (G4; 
Leopard) can easily peg our fiber service (at various times our 
Verizon FiOS service has been 15, 30, and 50 Mbps -- depends on how 
cheap we feel).   And when talking to a SmartStor NAS on our LAN 
(GigE switch), they frequently do 80%+ of their ethernet speeds. 
(The Smurf is 100Mb and the QS is gigE).


Are you using a wired or wifi connection to your home router? 
Switches involved?


How exactly are you determining can't get more than 14 Mbit?

Are you sure that those aformentioned Windoze machines aren't sucking 
up the bandwidth?  ... I get terrible speedtest results when my 
housemate's peecee is all infected (he swamps the router with open 
ports talking to Russian sites, filling its NAT table) or streaming 
high def vid, etc.


Have you run some traceroutes, to make sure the path between you and 
your target is clear?


See Nesta's reply... that both Macs get the same throughput could be 
telling.  Check the router and any local switch between you and it...


- Dan.
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Re: no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread tina
Den Fredag, 17/1 2014, 02:55, Nestamicky skrev:
 On 14-01-17 6:26 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
 hi all,

 I can't get more than 14 Mbit from my 50 Mbit connection

 the line is tested with two different windows machines that get the 50
 Mbit fine

 my 17 powerbook g4 ti running 10.4.11, and my husbands white g5 imac
 running 10.5.8 both get only 14 Mbit

 the powerbook has a 10/100 ethernet card and it is set to full duplex

 I find this soo strange

 any ideas out there?

 tia

 /tina

 Hi /Tina,

 Are we talking wired or wireless connections.

 If wireless, would you consider resetting your wireless network
 settings, including keychains? This is presuming you made recent changes
 to your router.

 That the speed on both machines is the same, would suggest that the
 issue, the bottleneck is on your router. It's indeed strange that both
 machines will trottle at the same speed.

 If you have another router at home, I'd suggest you dig that out and try
 it. Alternatively, if you can bypass your router, that might be good.

 I'm willing to wager a few krone that the problem is the router.

 Cheers


hello again,

I see I forgot to mention that all tests were done wired directly to the
box on the wall and at one of those online places like speedtest.net -
they all use the ookla-thingy

it's consistent, I never ever get more than 14 mbit on both macs - haven't
tried them outside the house

also, as I went from a 6/6 connection, I expected that everything would
almost fly, but it doesn't

just checked at download from macupdate right now, which ran at some 600
KB...

the tech guy who installed the fiber tested 50/50 on his brand new windows
laptop, and seconds after he left, I plugged the powerbook in and tested
14/11, and it's been like that ever since

yesterday a friend with an older windows laptop tested 50/26

I'm so disappointed :-(

tia

/tina



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Re: no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread Bruce Johnson

On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:13 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
 
 hello again,
 
 I see I forgot to mention that all tests were done wired directly to the
 box on the wall and at one of those online places like speedtest.net -
 they all use the ookla-thingy
 
 it's consistent, I never ever get more than 14 mbit on both macs - haven't
 tried them outside the house
 
 also, as I went from a 6/6 connection, I expected that everything would
 almost fly, but it doesn't
 
 just checked at download from macupdate right now, which ran at some 600
 KB...
 
 the tech guy who installed the fiber tested 50/50 on his brand new windows
 laptop, and seconds after he left, I plugged the powerbook in and tested
 14/11, and it's been like that ever since
 
 yesterday a friend with an older windows laptop tested 50/26
 
 I'm so disappointed :-(

What speed does the router talk to your Mac at? It will be (probably) 100mbit 
or even gigabit Ethernet.

You might have some communications issues between the router and the mac. You 
can go to System prefs  Networking and in the advanced section of the 
ethernet, Look in the Hardware tab (may be different in 10.4 and 10.5, but on 
my system it has the following: 

Configure: Manually or Automatically
Speed: Autoselect, 10baseT, 100baseT, 1000BaseT
Duplex: Full-duplex, full-duplex Flow Control, maybe Half-duplex (mine doesn’t 
show that, but it may not be relevant under gigabit)
MTU: Standard or Çustom.

You might be having issues with speed and duplexing. Try setting those manually.

Supposedly there are ways to set your MTU for better performance with specific 
networking setups, and you might be able to fix something like that, but I 
don’t have any direct experience. 

But hey, you’re paying for this service, and you’re not getting it, get them in 
to see what’s happening with your equipment, and don’t take ‘Oh it’s a Mac’ for 
an answer.


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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Re: no fast internet on my g-macs?

2014-01-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:26 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:

 any ideas out there?

This article has some info on tweaking OS X network connections:

http://rolande.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/performance-tuning-the-network-stack-on-mac-osx-10-6/

In the link to the older Wayback Machine archive, they’re specifically talking 
about older PPC Macs running 10.4  10.5, and there seems to be a limitation 
under default settings that’s near your 14 Mbps limit. By adjusting two 
parameter settings they up it to 35 Mbps.

I remember when I was running PPC Macs I always used some Terminal script to 
optimize my network settings and it really had a large effect. I can’t remember 
the name of what I used, but it worked.

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