Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Sep 5, 2015, at 2:33 PM, smac0031 wrote: > > > When I run my DA G4 with contemporaneous software, from the early 2000s it > does well. If I run newer stuff it gags. Yep, I think this right here is the biggest clue to your performance issues, sadly…modern software presumes a certain amou

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-05 Thread smac0031
I found a page at XLR8 your Mac where users reported dealing with non apple pci gigabit cards. It turns out a lot of them, or at least more than enough are compatible with 10.4x without any special drivers. I got a used one coming from eBay. I was looking at my hard drives and they are somethi

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > >> Software that's not compatible. TenFourFox is a great product, but it's >> still not completely compatible with modern standards. > > With respect, I'm going to call crap on this remark. Please elucidate as > to which standard it doesn't

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Sep 1, 2015, at 8:04 PM, smac0031 wrote: > > > You guys have been telling me that DA G4 is probably the slowest thing on my > network. I looked up the specs and the ethernet port is 10T, 100T, 1000T. I > am pretty sure that means gigabyte. The slowness of your G4 has nothing to do with

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-01 Thread smac0031
You guys have been telling me that DA G4 is probably the slowest thing on my network. I looked up the specs and the ethernet port is 10T, 100T, 1000T. I am pretty sure that means gigabyte. I have been looking at PCI cards and there don't seem to be any listed G4 Mac compatible gigabit cards li

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Mark Murphy
Beats me. That was a quote from another email. Mark Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> Software that's not compatible. TenFourFox is a great product, but it's >> still not completely compatible with modern standards. > > With respect, I'm going to call cr

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Software that's not compatible. TenFourFox is a great product, but it's > still not completely compatible with modern standards. With respect, I'm going to call crap on this remark. Please elucidate as to which standard it doesn't measure up on. With the exception of WebGL and OpenGL, which aren

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Mark Murphy
Thanks for the help. I just upgraded to tenfourfox 38.2.1 and it's noticeably slower. But there is other things going on because it wasn't too fast to begin with. The two slowest things on my network are most likely the G4 and a series 2 TiVo with a usb network adapter. Everything else, my tv,

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > I got an ap called net gear genie. I turns out I have eps enabled. > When I got this router it was the latest and greatest gigabit. I have two > gigabit switches, also netgear I thought my da G4 was also gigabit. Network performance is a mu

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Bruce Johnson > wrote: > > WEP/WPA also only applies to devices connecting to the router manually, Huh? My brain meant ‘connecting to the router wirelessly’ I have no idea why mu fingers typed ‘manually’…Sorry! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 2:21 PM, smac0031 wrote: > > I have been having trouble with my network. It runs really slow. > I have the wep enabled on my router which it a Netgear WNDR 3700v4. > WEP is a very poor protocol to use nowadays, it can be cracked quite simply; you should instead use WPA,

Network Troubles

2015-08-30 Thread smac0031
I have been having trouble with my network. It runs really slow. I have the wep enabled on my router which it a Netgear WNDR 3700v4. I know mostly nothing about this. I did find the network logs and noticed my system is routinely under land attack, whatever that is. Considering I have Charter as