I'm only home for a while but the wireless internet at home is making me think that there's something wrong with my MBP Airport. For the longest time, I thought it was just the router ...and then I got my sister a MacBook. And I used it. Bad move.
The MacBook loads pages instantly in Safari, the speed test ratings from SpeedTest.net are consistently 500 kbps faster than mine, which to be honest wouldn't be a big deal, if everything on my MBP didn't just completely stall literally half the time.
Yes. The internet just stalls to the point where I need to reload/refresh the page 2-3 times for the page to load. If I don't reload, I'm just waiting there for probably over a minute for a page that should take less than a second. YouTube will load fine and then it will suddenly stop loading in the middle of the video and to get more of the video I'd need to reload the entire page and hope there will be enough time before the next "cutoff" for the video to load completely. Messages from Adium often come in bulk, with up to 10 being stuffed in less than a second. Stuff just doesn't load.
None of this happens on my sister's MacBook. And she's even farther away than I am from the D-Link base station, which is probably not the best router. But it has been more than adequate for 4-5 years and it is still delivering quality waves to the MacBook and if I remember correctly both my Powerbook and my MBP before I left for school.
Did something go wrong with my MBP's Airport? I cleared Safari's cache and used Onyx for some maintenance, and the issue is still there. Thanks.
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