Broadband just getting slower and slower

Hi.
Our broadband has been getting slower and slower. (0.8 -0.9 mbps)
I called BT in India on Thursday, who said that BT had 'upgraded my line but the homehub was too old to cope with it' and sent through a new home hub. The lady also told us that we should expect to see speeds of about 3mbps.
We set up the new hub today and we're now getting download speeds of 0.35 mbps.
When we called back BT in India, after a long conversation the person we spoke to came to the conclustion that the homehub they sent us was faulty and we'd receive a new one.
I'm no engineer and I may be cynical, but I have no confidence that this will solve the issue.
Apparently we are not entitled to to have an engineer because 'the trouble shooting protocol has not yet been concluded'.
The lady was not able to tell us how many homehubs we'd have to receive to establish that this was the problem.
Is there anything else I can do?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly.
Here's the ADSL status - speed test to follow shortly
ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 01:02:50
Downstream:
800 Kbps
Upstream:
448 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
12.5 dB / 26.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
42.1 dB / 26.0 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
16.6 dBm / 12.6 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
1890842 / 24
CRC Events (Down/Up):
826 / 12

Similar Messages

  • So i just got my ipod august 2012. about 1 month ago, my home button stopped working and my ipod is getting slower and slower. would apple be able to fix it for free?

    So i just got my ipod august 2012. about 1 month ago, my home button stopped working and my ipod is getting slower and slower. Would apple be able to fix it for free?

    Ipods automatically have a one year warrany unless you have violated the terms. But you can pay to extend the warranty. It depends, they may fix it for free or they may charge a bit. Im not entirely sure. But id say theres a good chance that they may fix it for free. With battery replacements, ive heard that they give you an entirely new ipod with a charge of $80. So i think it depends

  • Broadband getting slower and slower

    Hi, 
    For the past few weeks broadband has been getting slower and slower, from about 2.5Mbps down to 0.3Mbps so far. 
    ADSL line status
    Connection Information
    Line state
    Connected
    Connection time
    1 days, 04:44:50
    Downstream
    287 Kbps
    Upstream
    924 Kbps
    ADSL Settings
    VPI/VCI
    0/38
    Type
    PPPoA
    Modulation
    G.992.5 Annex A
    Latency type
    Interleaved
    Noise margin (Down/Up)
    7.1 dB / 5.5 dB
    Line attenuation (Down/Up)
    58.9 dB / 35.0 dB
    Output power (Down/Up)
    1.5 dBm / 1.4 dBm
    Loss of Framing (Local/Remote)
    0 / 0
    Loss of Signal (Local/Remote)
    0 / 0
    Loss of Power (Local/Remote)
    0 / 0
    FEC Errors (Down/Up)
    7780 / 2
    CRC Errors (Down/Up)
    43 / 1
    HEC Errors (Down/Up)
    6 / 0
    Error Seconds (Local/Remote)
    15 / 
    I have reported the fault a number of times, but have been told 'we cannot find a fault', and line tests report there is no problem. 
    The quiet line test sounded ok, everything is plugged into the master socket with a filter. 
    This is the same as a problem i had before, which was fixed after posting on this forum. 
    Hopefully someone who can help will see this and be able to get it fixed. 
    Thanks

    Hi Welcome to the forums
    Here is a basic guide to getting help from the community members done by CL Keith Please read through the link posted http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/speed/first_steps.html
    Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
    once you have posted the information asked for then the community members can help you more
    Thank You
    This is a customer to customer self help forum the only BT presence here are the forum moderators
    If you want to say thanks for a helpful answer,please click on the Ratings star on the left-hand side If the reply answers your question then please mark as ’Mark as Accepted Solution’

  • Slower and slower broadband

    Please help, my broadband has been getting slower and slower since early November.  I have a Homehub 3.0 and have phoned the BT helpline on numerous occaisons and been told that my line is fine and that I'm getting 3.5mbps to the house.  I've not been able to get the BT speed test to work on my Mac (each time I get as far as putting in my phone number, it asks if this is correct, I click OK and then nothing happens) so I've been using speedtest.net.  At peak times (evenings and especially weekends I'm getting 0.4 - 0.6mbps and the rest of the time I'm getting 1 - 1.5mbps.  Each time I phone BT I'm fobbed off with a different excuse: it's the phone extensions in my house (sorry I don't have any) / it's my Mac (which is brand new and went back to Apple where it happily ran at a whopping 25mpbs) / my cordless phone is too close (it's now the other side of the room and it's made no difference) / the main socket is worn out (I've got a brand new BT Openreach socket that's been checked and tested) / there's a network fault (they can't tell me what it is, but apparently it's been fixed - but hasn't made a difference).  I have asked for my profile to be reset on numerous occasions (which worked for a friend on Sky and took about 2 minutes to do and fixed the problem) but BT refuse to do this for me.  What else can I do???  Please help!  I used to be able to download films in about an hour, they now time out after 8 hours, I haven't been able to download any of my magazine subscriptions (300-600mb files each time) or even stream a 20 second utube video without it pausing every 2 seconds.  I thought my previous broadband provider was bad, but this is a lot worse.

    Thanks john46.  Yes I've been running off the test socket since November and yes I've tried the quiet line test with a corded phone and the line is fine.  I've managed to borrow a windows based laptop to run the BT speed test which wouldn't work on my Mac and got the following results.  I'm a bit dismayed that it says my maxiumum achievable speed is 2Mbps when I keep being told each time I phone that I should be getting a minimum of 2.8 and an average of 3.5, max 4Mbps.  I'll go into the homehub settings in a mo and post those results.  The good news is I suddenly have two fault reports with BT (no detail - just slow broadband) so maybe they have finally taken notice?
    FAQ
    "The test has successfully completed")Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
    Download  Speed
    1707 Kbps
    0 Kbps
    2000 Kbps Max Achievable Speed
    Download speedachieved during the test was - 1707 Kbps For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 400-2000 Kbps. Additional Information: Your DSL Connection Rate :3008 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM) IP Profile for your line is - 2000 Kbps

  • FIRE FOX IS GETTING SLOWER AND SLOWER LOADING PAGES I GO TO ONLINE. IT LOAD CIRCLE STOP SPINNING AND WILL START BACK BUT IT TAKES IT'S TIME TO DO SO. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON THROUGH THE LAST SEVERAL UPGRADES.

    FIRE FOX USED TO BE A FAST BROWSER BUT IT IS GETTING SLOWER AND SLOWER. THE BLUE-E IS ABOUT TO THE POINT OF BEING FASTER THEM THE FOX. I HAVE ALWAYS LIKE THE FOX, JUST WANT TO FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM WITH IT AND THE LONGER I HAVE THE WINDOW OPEN ARE UP THE WORSE IT GETS. I DO A LOT OF GAMING ON FACEBOOK PLAYING MAFIA WARS BUT THE PROBLEM IS NOT LIMITED TO JUST THERE IT IS ALL THE TIME AND EVERY WHERE. I HAVE TRIED ADD-ON'S THINKING THEY MAY HELP BUT NOTHING HAS DONE ANY GOOD. CHROME IS TWICE IF NOT THREE
    TIMES AS FAST AS THE FOX LATELY ON LOADING PAGES.

    For what it's worth, you posted this in 2011, and here in 2014 I am still having this same issue. Over the last two days, I have had to unlock my apple account 8 times. I didn't get any new devices. I haven't initiated a password reset. I didn't forget my password. I set up two factor authentication and have been able to do the unlocking with the key and using a code sent to one of my devices. 
    That all works.
    It's this having to unlock my account every time I go to use any of my devices. And I have many: iMac, iPad, iPad2, iPad mini, iPhone 5s, iPod touch (daughter), and my old iPhone 4 being used as an ipod touch now.  They are all synced, and all was working just fine.
    I have initiated an incident with Apple (again) but I know they are just going to suggest I change my Apple ID. It's a simple one, and one that I am sure others think is theirs. I don't want to change it. I shouldn't have to. Apple should be able to tell me who is trying to use it, or at least from where.
    Thanks for listening,
    Melissa

  • Macbook Pro getting slower and slower, freezing all the time

    Hi,
    My early 2011 Macbook Pro is gettin slower and slower, and I'm pretty sure Mavericks only worsened the condition. This is my report, can someone help me on why this is happening?
    Hardware Information:
              MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
              MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
              1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
              4 GB RAM
    Video Information:
              Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
    Audio Plug-ins:
              BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
              AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
              AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
              iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
    Startup Items:
              FanControlDaemon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/FanControlDaemon
    System Software:
              OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 1 day 1:28:0
    Disk Information:
              TOSHIBA MK5059GSXP disk0 : (500,11 GB)
                        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
                        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499,25 GB (54,63 GB free)
                        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
              MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898 
    USB Information:
              JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge 500,11 GB
                        EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
                        Filmes (disk2s2) /Volumes/Filmes: 499,76 GB (330,53 GB free)
              Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
              Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
              Apple Inc. iPhone
              Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
              Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    FireWire Information:
    Thunderbolt Information:
              Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
    Kernel Extensions:
              de.novamedia.driver.NMSmartplugSCSIDevice          (1.0.1)
              com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          (1.5.1)
              com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring          (8.0)
    Problem System Launch Daemons:
    Problem System Launch Agents:
    Launch Daemons:
              [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
              [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
              [loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
    Launch Agents:
              [failed] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist
              [loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
              [loaded] de.novamedia.VodafoneDeviceObserver.plist
    User Launch Agents:
              [failed] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist
              [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist
              [failed] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
              [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist
              [loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
              [loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
              [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
    User Login Items:
              uHD-Agent
              GrowlHelperApp
              Alfred
              uTorrent
              Dropbox
              iShutdown
              HyperDock Helper
              Assistente de gestor de conteúdo
    3rd Party Preference Panes:
              Akamai NetSession Preferences
              Fan Control
              Flash Player
              Flip4Mac WMV
              Growl
              HyperDock
              Java
    Internet Plug-ins::
              DirectorShockwave: Version: 11.5.9r620
              o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 4.9.1.16010
              Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 3.4.2f3 - SDK 10.5
              Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
              Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1
              RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown
              Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6
              FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6
              Flash Player: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6
              QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
              googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 4.9.1.16010
              npgtpo3dautoplugin: Version: 0.1.44.29 - SDK 10.5
              iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
              SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6
              JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 45
    Bad Fonts:
              None
    Old applications:
              Content Manager Assistant:          Version: 1.10.4086.78 - SDK 10.5
                        /Users/duarte_cunharosa/Applications/CMA.app
              Content Manager Assistant:          Version: 1.10.4086.78 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/CMA.app
              FacebookVideoCalling:          Version: 1.2.0.157 - SDK 10.5
                        /Users/duarte_cunharosa/Library/Application Support/Facebook/video/1.2.0.158/FacebookVideoCalling.app
              Microsoft Alerts Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Alerts Daemon.app
              Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4
                        /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
              Microsoft Chart Converter:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Chart Converter.app
              Microsoft Clip Gallery:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Clip Gallery.app
              Microsoft Database Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon.app
              Microsoft Database Utility:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Database Utility.app
              Microsoft Document Connection:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Document Connection.app
              Microsoft Error Reporting:          Version: 2.2.9 - SDK 10.4
                        /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0/Microsoft Error Reporting.app
              Microsoft Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app
              Microsoft Graph:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Graph.app
              Microsoft Language Register:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Additional Tools/Microsoft Language Register/Microsoft Language Register.app
              Microsoft Office Reminders:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Office Reminders.app
              Microsoft Outlook:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app
              Microsoft PowerPoint:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft PowerPoint.app
              Microsoft Ship Asserts:          Version: 1.1.4 - SDK 10.4
                        /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0/Microsoft Ship Asserts.app
              Microsoft Upload Center:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Upload Center.app
              Microsoft Word:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app
              Miro Video Converter:          Version: 2.6 - SDK 10.0
                        /Applications/Miro Video Converter.app
              My Day:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/My Day.app
              Open XML for Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Open XML for Excel.app
              Plants vs:          Version: 1.0.40 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Plants vs. Zombies.app
              RipIt:          Version: 1.6.2 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/RipIt.app
              SLLauncher:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5
                        /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.app
              Solver:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins/Solver.app
              SyncServicesAgent:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5
                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/SyncServicesAgent.app
              UPlayBrowser:          Version: 1.0.1.23853 - SDK 10.5
                        /Library/Application Support/Ubisoft/Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/UPlayBrowser.app
    Time Machine:
              Mobile backups: ON
              Auto backup: YES
              Volumes being backed up:
                        Macintosh HD: Disk size: 464.96 GB Disk used: 414.09 GB
              Destinations:
                        Time Machine [Local] (Last used)
                        Total size: 698.32 GB
                        Total number of backups: 3
                        Oldest backup: 2013-12-20 18:10:54 +0000
                        Last backup: 2013-12-22 19:52:17 +0000
                        Size of backup disk: Too small
                                  Backup size 698.32 GB < (Disk used 414.09 GB X 3)
              Time Machine details may not be accurate.
              All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
    Top Processes by CPU:
                   9%          Transmission
                   4%          Dropbox
                   2%          WindowServer
                   2%          Dock
                   1%          Google Chrome
    Top Processes by Memory:
              123 MB          Google Chrome
              119 MB          iTunes
              102 MB          Dropbox
              87 MB          Google Chrome Helper
              66 MB          Finder
    Virtual Memory Statistics:
              148 MB          Free RAM
              995 MB          Active RAM
              859 MB          Inactive RAM
              1.03 GB          Wired RAM
              7.80 GB          Page-ins
              4.84 GB          Page-outs

    If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. This procedure is a diagnostic  test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything suggested in this comment. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
    Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as some other aspects of the configuration that may be related to the problem.
    Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
    You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken while booted in “normal” mode. If the system is now running in safe mode and is bootable in normal mode, reboot as usual. If it only boots in safe mode, use that.
    Below are instructions to enter UNIX shell commands. They do nothing but produce human-readable output. However, you need to think carefully before running any program at the behest of a stranger on a public message board. If you question the safety of the procedure suggested here — which you should — search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them.
    The commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it.
    If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways: 
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.) 
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens. 
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid. 
    When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign. 
    Step 1 
    Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
    PB=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy; PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; PC () { o=$(grep [^[:blank:]] "$2"); PR "$1"; }; PF () { o=$($PB -c Print "$2" | awk -F'= ' \/$3'/{print $2}'); PR "$1"; }; PN () { [[ $o -eq 0 ]] || printf "\n%s: %s\n" "$1" $o; }; { system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | sed '8!d;s/^ *//'; o=$(system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | sed '5,6!d'); fgrep -q P <<< "$o" && o=; PR "POST"; o=$(( $(vm_stat | awk '/Pageo/{sub("\\.",""); print $2}')/256 )); [[ $o -gt 1024 ]] && printf "\nPageouts: %s MiB\n" $o; o=$(kextstat -kl | grep -v com\\.apple | cut -c53- | cut -d\< -f1); PR "Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions"; o=$(launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)|\.[0-9]+$/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic user agents"; o=$(launchctl getenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES); PR "Inserted libraries"; PC "cron configuration" /e*/cron*; o=$(crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "User cron tasks"; PC "Global launchd configuration" /e*/lau*; PC "Per-user launchd configuration" ~/.lau*; PF "Global login items" /L*/P*/loginw* Path; PF "Per-user login items" L*/P*/*loginit* Name; PF "Safari extensions" L*/Saf*/*/E*.plist Bundle | sed 's/\..*$//;s/-[1-9]$//'; o=$(find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 \) | wc -l); PN "Restricted user files"; cd; o=$(find -L /S*/L*/E* {,/}L*/{A*d,Compon,Ex,In,Keyb,Mail/Bu,P*P,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo}* -type d -name Contents -prune | while read d; do ID=$($PB -c 'Print :CFBundleIdentifier' "$d/Info.plist") || ID=; ID=${ID:-No bundle ID}; egrep -qv "^com\.apple\.[^x]|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|HDPro|HighPoint|driver\.stex|hp-fax|JMicron|microsoft\.MDI|print|SoftRAID" <<< $ID && printf '%s\n\t(%s)\n' "${d%/Contents}" "$ID"; done); PR "Extrinsic loadable bundles"; o=$(find /u*/{,*/}lib -type f -exec sh -c 'file -b "$1" | grep -qw shared && ! codesign -v "$1"' {} {} \; -print); PR "Unsigned shared libraries"; o=$(system_profiler SPFontsDataType | egrep "Valid: N|Duplicate: Y" | wc -l); PN "Font problems"; for d in {,/}L*/{La,Priv,Sta}*; do o=$(ls -A "$d"); PR "$d"; done; } 2> /dev/null | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 1 done'
    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
    The command may take up to a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. Wait for the line "Step 1 done" to appear below what you entered. The output of the command will beautomatically copied to the Clipboard. All you have to do is paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-Vagain. Please don't copy anything from the Terminal window. No typing is involved in this step.
    Step 2 
    Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
    PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; { o=$(sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic daemons"; o=$(sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook); PR "Login hook"; o=$(sudo crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "Root cron tasks"; o=$(syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'); PR "Log check"; } 2>&- | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 2 done'
    This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
    You can then quit Terminal. Please note:
    ☞ Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — type only your login password when prompted.
    ☞ When you type your password, you won't see what you're typing.
    ☞ If you don’t have a password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
    ☞ Step 2 might not produce any output, in which case the Clipboard will be empty. Step 1 will always produce something.
    ☞ The commands don't change anything, and merely running them will do neither good nor harm.
    ☞ Remember to post the output. It's already in the Clipboard. You don't have to copy it. Just paste into a reply    
    ☞ If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of either command, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
    ☞ Don't post the contents of the Terminal window.
    ☞ Don't paste the output of Step 1 into the Terminal window. Paste it into a reply.

  • After my phone 4 was upgraded to iOS 5, my iphone 4 has been getting slower and slower. It's really annoying. How to solve this problem?

    After my phone 4 was upgraded to iOS 5, my iphone 4 has been getting slower and slower. It's really annoying. How to solve this problem?

    hi Allan,
    Can't make or receive any calls. When making a call, you see the thing dialing but no tone, it rings at he other end however. When somebody trying to call me, it does not ring at my end. If you try to end the call, the phone page will just freeze, when you exit the phone page to go try the MP3 player for example, and come back, the phone is still trying to end the previous call. I tried resetting the network settings, turn the phone off and on , no difference at all. It's easter Sunday, everything is closed here in Montreal.

  • Firefox gets slower and slower over time.

    I have been using firefox for some time, Like it better than Safari generally, but I've noticed (and it has gotten worse with 3.6.x) that if you leave FF running for extended periods of time it gets slower and slower, does not seem to matter if add-ons are installed or not, and it gets REALLY bad after going in and out of flash based apps/games a couple times. It is not just a mac problem as this behaviour also happens on windows xp or newer, but windows OS needs to be rebooted daily anyways so most people won't notice.

    Proceed with [[Basic Troubleshooting]] first of all.
    You could also try running Firefox in [[Safe Mode]]. If it functions properly in that configuration, then one of your add-ons is the culprit.

  • When I first open firefox it is fast but as I surf it gets slower and slower them stops, I have to close it and restart. what do I need to do to fix this?

    I start of using Firefox 7, as I surf or stumble it gets slower and slower loading pages till it just starts to freeze up. I have to shut down firefox and restart. This only happens after 3 or 4 web pages.

    As suggested I went to Control Panel & chose Add/Remove Pgms. Now, near the bottom was Windows iLivid Toolbar. I then hi-lighted it & removed it. The date it was last used seemed to be when my problem started. I am not a big user of toolbars (except the main ones); so I had no issues about deleting one that I did not recognize.
    Then I opened up Mozilla again & changed my Home Page, using Tools then Options. I closed out Mozilla, then brought it up again & my new Home Page was showing just fine. Wow! What a relief it worked. I hope it lasts. Thanx Firefox !

  • NI Session Manager gets slower and slower from call to call!

    I have the following problem with NI-Session-Manager:
    I use Session Manager a lot on my test systems. Now that I have a test system running that makes many Session Manager Calls I noticed that after a while the system gets slower and slower. I�ve attached a Sequence File, which demonstrates this problem.
    This sequence file is based on the LV Session Manager Example, which ships with TestStand.
    Instructions: In the UI-Msg Field of the Sequence Editor you will see how long the actual run took to execute. Every run makes 500 calls to Session Manager. You will notice that every run takes a little bit longer than the previous. After 100 runs the difference is significant.
    Although my example uses a COM
    port to demonstrate the problem this problem is really related to Session Manager because the same happens if I use an IVI-Instrument (i.e. NI-DMM, NI-Switch, �)
    Any help appreciated!
    Regards
    Herbert
    Herbert Koltschik
    Sagem Communication Austria
    [email protected]
    Attachments:
    sessionmgr_-_slow_down_problem.zip ‏63 KB

    Herbert -
    Thanks for the feedback. I will look into item (1).
    The design of the session manager was to solve the problem of only having to share an instrument within a multithread application. If the session already exists, than you get the same session and thus the same handle, and the instrument is only initialize once and closed after the session no longer exists.
    In the case of a C++ based program you would have to add the session as a member variable that has a specific lifetime. When the object is release, so will the session.
    In the case of an application like TestStand, you just attach the session to the execution. Once the execution goes away, the session may go away if no other execution is using it.
    In the case of L
    abVIEW being called from TestStand, you are using VIs as subroutines, so either the application (TestStand) must manage the lifetime of the session, or the VI subroutine must deligate the lifetime control to a "global" VI. The item you attach to the global could be the refnum itself or the SMgr session. One way of doing this would be to create a VI that serves the refnum to you but internally manages the lifetime of the ActiveX references to the Session Manager sessions. This would be a simple vector of names and their sessions. When called the VI would lookup and return a refnum from an existing session or create a new session and return a refnum for it.
    Scott Richardson
    Scott Richardson
    National Instruments

  • IMac getting slower and slower....

    I've had my iMac for just under a year and recently it has seemed to be getting slower and slower and more buggy. Today GoLive CS2 refused to launch. No error code, just bounced in the dock and then stopped. My Finder keeps "not responding" when I am opening a folder on my harddrive. I've had problems with external firewire drives, it's just getting frustrating, and it's been getting worse over the last week or so... Also I've been having font problems too... I haven't installed a massive amount of fonts, but all of a sudden it's telling me it can't find "Arial TT" when I open InDesign I've repaired permissions, zapped PRAM, and I'm performing the hardware test as I type this (on my PowerBook). I've used Macs for many many years and consider myself a pretty advanced user so I'm not thinking this is user error. Has anyone else had similar problems?? I don't use a bunch of third party junk software on here, it's basically apple apps, and the Adobe CS2 Suite. I maxed the RAM with Crucial RAM when I first got it, so all that should still be good. Help? Suggestions? I know I could always wipe it and start again, but unfortunately at this moment I don't have enough external HD to back everything up to do this...
    iMac G5 2Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    947/3393
    Hi rorydale,
    Speaking of "not enough external HD to back everything up":
    You know that Mac OS X needs a lot of free space on the boot drive, like at least 10%-15% free space?
    Along with RAM, that's the only thing Mac OS X cannot do well without.
    Then,
    before starting a good read of this article and its excellent links:
    - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25392
    I would make sure some regular maintenance is performed, just to take a safe start.
    1) Nightly "periodic" maintenance tasks:
    Open Terminal and paste this command:
    sudo sh /etc/daily
    hit enter, password, enter, wait until you see the prompt again.
    OK now this one:
    sudo sh /etc/weekly
    (this one takes a long time, especially if you never ran it. You can use your computer while it is running, but do not quit Terminal)
    Then, this one:
    sudo sh /etc/monthly
    Again, wait for the prompt to reappear.
    2) Run Preferential Treatment, delete the corrupted .plist files if it finds some.
    3) Run a Disk Repair with Disk Utility from the Tiger install DVD (menu Utilities).
    4) Permissions Repair of course (from the boot volume, not the install disc)
    5) Fonts can get problematic. I would trash Fonts caches too. Read about Fonts also in the Troubleshooting KB articles...
    6) Users caches can be cleaned just to make sure. You'll see later if you still need to tinker the system and kernel caches.
    That's for a start, let us know how it goes...
    Axl

  • My computer gets old and slow, and i"ll must get a new one, can I download my PS CC version at my new one.? I have an PS CC account.. Which steps must I take?

    My computer gets old and slow, and i"ll must get a new one, can I download my PS CC version at my new one.? I have an PS CC account.. Which steps must I take?

    hello; i just erased the post i started with, because my status has changed. i searched in the firefox folder and found the uninstall folder, and this time, uninstall worked perfectly, and it gave me an option to save my personal info! YAY! i installed ff 3.6.24 without a hitch; FF is Baaaaaack!
    However, I did get a window saying my computer doesn't have enough resources for the latest version of 8, but that I should install the latest compatible version of firefox; which version would that be, I wonder? It takes me to the same page with the ff 3.6.24 downloads. I already have that now.
    I am going to mark this as solved; thank you cor-el for helping me with this problem and sticking with me as i whined and moaned, and tried to get the courage to "just do it!"

  • Aperture getting slower and slower

    When I first got my Mac, and installed Aperture it was lightening fast. The sliders worked in real time, I never got the spinning wheel, every reason I wanted a Mac in the first place had come true. Fast forward to today - about 6 months into owning the Mac and using Aperture, the software is running slower and slower. Even clicking on an adjustment often takes time for the adjustment to load. Brush HUD's don't show up right away; adjustments don't show in real time - all of this makes tasks with brushes painful if not sometimes impossible. I've read the posts and threads related to slowness - faces is off; I'm not sharing photo's with I-life or I-work; all other apps and software are closed and shut down; my HDD is under 60% utilized; my library resides on my computer. Why is the system getting slower, and what can I do? Obviously, I can add RAM, but my question would be why would it have worked so fast previously and work so slow now with the same RAM? Any suggestions for adjustments, or suggestions. Anybody else experience progressively slower Aperture?

    How much RAM do you have?
    In any case:
    Repair your Library.
    Then:
    Copy your repaired Aperture Library to an external drive.  Rename the version on your system drive.  Run Aperture from the external drive and confirm that the copy is whole and working.  Delete the re-named version on your system drive.  Empty the system trash.  Just for giggles, using Disk Utility, repair your system drive.  Then copy your Aperture Library back to your system drive.
    How does it run?
    (This will repair your Library, possibly clean up your disk, and defragment your Aperture Library (many of which contain hundreds of thousands -- even millions -- of files).)
    There is one other thing to do -- PRAM flush? -- I'll see it I can turn it up.

  • Win7 on parallels getting slower and slower

    Hi,
    I installed a win7 system thru Parallels on my mac mini (mid 2010), 4G ram. It works fine and fast at first, but now, 3 months after, the win is getting slower and slower.
    I checked the task manager in win7, the cpu usage is lower than 40% at most time, and the used memory is around 700~800M, I assigned 1G to parallels.
    Any idea about this? Or I have to reinstall the win7 because it just a WINDOWS???
    Cheers

    If you're using up to 800MB on a 1GB system, Windows has no headroom for the tasks you're doing with it. It has to do a lot of disk swapping to maintain memory availability. Assign it 2GB RAM, and if you only have a 4GB Mac consider upgrading to 8GB so you can keep the VM running whenever you want it. I give Windows 7 4GB and 4 cores on my Mac Pro, and it's fast enough to do video editing on the types of files (MPEG2 with AC3 audio) that Mac OS software doesn't fully support.

  • Why is my iPod touch getting slower and slower

    Please can anyone tell me why my iTouch is getting slower and slower?
    also why do we have to do so many updates?
    Can I go back to the original software for my ipod touch?
    sorry for so many questions but they are related

    - All I can say in this Apple forum is that downgrading the iOS is not supported by Apple.
    - Periodically double click the home button and close all the apps in the recently used dock. Then power off and then back on the iPod. This frees up memory. The 4G only has 256 MB of memory.
    - Restoring the iPod also helps

Maybe you are looking for