Hi Ronni I deleted older messages from this email. Answers to your questions inserted into your text.
Thanks for your specific questions - calming and rational - I was beginning to freak out! I looked at the Belkin Security Log which has some interesting entries (meaningless to me) - SYN (and UDP) Flood to Host . . . Cheers Alan On 24/05/2013, at 8:40 AM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > From reading your reply below I would suggest the problem is with your > Network. > The problem is not machine or browser specific, it is happening on both > machines in both browsers. It should not be taking so long to load a web page. > You could be experiencing dropouts / spasmodic connections which could also > cause the problem you had with copying files across the Network. If the > connection drops while copying a large file, it could become damaged. Occasionally after using AirDrop I get a Mac message "Another device on the network is using your computers IP address 192.168.2.12". I think this is the Mac's wireless address and haven't found any duplication on my network. Mac has 192.168.2.4 as Ethernet address. > > You might need to get Daniel to check the Network for you. Just before the new iMac arrived I set up a new Time Capsule in preparation. Daniel checked - and changed - my setup in January 2013. I have not intentionally altered anything since. > To be able to give any advise we would need all information & details of your > Modem & Time Capsule setup. Daniel set Time Capsule to work in bridge mode. > > Is the Belkin or the Time Capsule setup as the Wireless Network? Time Capsule is the wireless network, Belkin has wireless disabled > What Belkin is it? model F5D7633au4A (ADSL2+ Modem with G Router) > How do you have both setup? Is this a specific question? Not sure what is required! BELKIN has DHCP server function ON, IP pool addresses from 2 to100, lease time = forever. IP addresses 2-12 show hosts. No virtual servers, MAC address filtering disabled, DMZ disabled, ICMP Ping blocked. TIME CAPSULE via AirPort Utility has Network = router mode Off (Bridge Mode); Internet = Connect Using DHCP and all addresses are consistent with other data given here. > What DNS servers do you have in the Belkin? Automatic from ISP box is ticked. DNS address is 203.0.178.191 Secondary DNS address is 203.215.29.191 > What DNS servers do you have in System Preferences > Network - Advanced - DNS? 192.168.2.1 Belkin > > Do you have any Firewall set in the Belkin? Firewall is enabled. Client IP filter function is enabled, but there are no clients listed (message "No valid filtering rule"). > In System Preferences > Security & Privacy you have Firewall ON. > In Firewall Options - what incoming connections are you blocking there? Firewall is OFF in Mac > Do you have any other Firewall? Or LittleSnitch blocking network traffic? No and No > >> On both Macs, Network Proxies for both Ethernet and WiFi have no "Protocols >> to configure" boxes checked. But both have "Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)" >> ticked, and the field for "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains:" >> has *.local, 169.254/16 entered. Should I NOT have PASV checked? > > That's correct, no problem there. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 24/05/2013, at 12:09 AM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ronni >> >> Things are very peculiar. Came (partly) good during testing. >>> Go to System Preferences > Network - select the connection you are using >>> (Wi-Fi or Ethernet), then click the Advanced button, then 'Proxies' check >>> that NOTHING is selected here. >>> >> On both Macs, Network Proxies for both Ethernet and WiFi have no "Protocols >> to configure" boxes checked. But both have "Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)" >> ticked, and the field for "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains:" >> has *.local, 169.254/16 entered. Should I NOT have PASV checked? >> >> 1Password is the only Extension installed (on both Macs), so it can be >> checked easily. >> >> Previous experience with old Mac (following the Safari diagnostic guide) and >> deleting all Website Data (cookies, caches etc) gave just temporary relief, >> probably coincidental, to the problem website (BankWest at that time) but >> caused lots of anguish with lost helpful data for other sites. I've avoided >> that step since! Have not done this tonight as I didn't get past step 1 on >> your list. >> >> First thing I did tonight was to attempt SBS access from the main Mac - no >> go (so it hadn't come good with a rest). Then I tested the older second Mac >> which has the same OS 10.8.3 and Safari 6.0.4 as the new main Mac. >> >> Old Mac had essentially an empty cookie file (Prefs-Privacy) with no >> reference to SBS. Safari is little used - just homepage of ABC news, then >> Wikipedia and not much else for last 3-4 months. Consequently I expected >> slow webpage loading so I tried a couple of random sites that I have >> bookmarked to get a feel for time taken to load (they were a few seconds >> generally). Then tried www.sbs.com.au on Safari with all existing >> preference settings (and latest Flash Player). It appeared to hang so I >> left it to see what would happen. Watched for 5 minutes then went to make >> coffee. Returned a few minutes later to find some data on screen: part of >> the webpage banner image and then the menu tab items and language choices >> listed vertically as links. Left it for another 10 minutes but no change. >> Escaped, closed Safari and tried again. This time Safari timed out after >> 1 minute with the message that Safari can't open because website not >> responding. >> >> Tried Firefox on old Mac. Partial load after 5 minutes with graphics of >> banner and webpage header (down to the menu tabs) Nothing more for the >> next 10 minutes. >> >> Back to Safari on old Mac. Got the text list display after 1 minute but no >> images. >> >> ** Tried Safari on NEW Mac - website opened properly with full graphics >> display! No delay. >> >> Tried again on old Mac with Safari: hung again with partial loading at 5 >> minutes. >> >> What now? Two hours later, the new Mac still successfully loads the SBS >> home page. >> >> Previous experience suggests I will have no problems with accessing the SBS >> website for the next few days from the new Mac. I hadn't got round to >> trying FireFox on the new Mac. But the partial access from the old Mac is >> puzzling - I can look at that again tomorrow. >> >> I think I will just have to wait for SBS access to fail again. I can then >> carry on with your list - Safe Mode, etc. But it does seem that the problem >> is not machine specific or even Safari specific. It is very strange that >> the new Mac is starting to show the same symptons I had with the old Mac and >> BankWest. It seems that SBS is trying to download something that my Belkin >> modem, Time Capsule, and Mac does not like. Would the Firewall settings >> have any bearing here? The new Mac (February 2013) had a fresh install of >> apps and data. Did not use Migration Assistant. >> >> I had completely forgotten about testing SBS access from the iPad. >> Something else to add to the checklist for next time. >> >> Thanks for your help and guidance so far. I hope the problem can be >> resolved with clear causes found! >> >> Cheers >> Alan >> >>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
