[kylemacr]

Hi
I subscribed to Onspeed (internet accelerator) last year and was very happy with better dial-up speed. I now have DSL which is great, but with the following problems:

- Safari and Mail are very slow opening, takes 30-40 seconds. (They opened quickly before my Mac was setup for DSL by a technician, he noticed the problem, but didn’t fix it other than to say ‘maybe Onspeed is causing the problem’. He checked the bandwidth and it's fine.)

- I don’t need Onspeed anymore, but if I disable it (or remove it from startup applications) then I lose internet access. Safari message = ‘unable to access..., check internet connection’. Access only returns if I enable Onspeed.

Has anyone else had similar problems with DSL / Onspeed? Or any suggestions?

I would appreciate any assistance, Thanks


Equipment: G5 bought early last year (love it! had a @#$*y PC before), OS X v10.3, I’ve downloaded all updates. Just standard software plus Onspeed and NetBarrier (virus and firewall software, needs an upgrade to latest version).

[kylemacr]

two possible solutions to the above

1) in System Preferences, Network, Configuration - remove all ticks from 'Proxies'

2) setup a new Location using the same setup details (thanks to JPFresno for that one).

Option 1 seems to work, I haven't tried option 2.