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Slow Internet Browsing, fast downloading
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: SLC, UT
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I have Verizon DSL for my 1mhz iMac. Until a few days ago, it was FAST. Much faster than my previous Earthlink service.
Now pages (mostly images) are loading slower than they would with dial up. Some pages are taking nearly 2 minutes to completely load, however bandwidth / downloading is as fast as always.
For example...
MSNBC home page load time: Safari - 25 sec. Camino - 45 sec, Explorer - 30 sec.
2.1 MB movie from Quicktime.com - 20 sec.
Based upon the speed of the movie downloads, I'm inclined to believe that the
Verizon connection is not this issue, but I really don't know.
I've recently run Cocktail Pilot as well as updated & re-updated 10.2.8. Could those have changed something?
Anyone have an idea what could be going on?
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Chad Hinkson
Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't...
iMac 2.0 GHZ Intel / 1.5 Gb
MacBook 2.0 Intel / 1.0 mb
OS 10.4
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: NoVA
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Originally posted by jxflyer:
I have Verizon DSL for my 1mhz iMac.
I think you need a faster Mac! 
Sorry, I haven't had any experience with this and don't know what the problem could be, since you experience the same issue with different browsers. Perhaps it's your DSL service... try asking a Verizon tech.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Do you have any other computers that you can try with your connection, or a friend that could bring over a laptop?
Have you tried resetting the DSL modem's connection?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Capitol City
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It might be a problem with lookups. As in requests. Sometimes if they don't set you up right on their end, the requests for data can take longer, much longer than the data actually transfers.
this would explain why it takes a long time to load simple pages, but the downloads work really well.
Call verizon, and tell them you think you might have a problem with uploading data, or that requests seem really slow, but downloads but once you actaually connect, the downloads are fast.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: SLC, UT
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Deathman
Thanks for the insight. I was wondering if just such a problem existed, because that does seem to explain the behavior.
I'm calling Verizon tomorrow.
Thanks.
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Chad Hinkson
Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't...
iMac 2.0 GHZ Intel / 1.5 Gb
MacBook 2.0 Intel / 1.0 mb
OS 10.4
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
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I am capped at 80kps on the downstream on Charter, that is what I am paying for. But I have been getting 200kps+ downloads lately. Weird.
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