Dialup speed normal-- slow-- normal-- slow...

Dialup began to run very slowly. I removed the old connection then created a new one whereupon it ran normally. Loaded about a dozen pages and it began to run slowly again. Will someone please solve this mystery?
Thanks,
Don

Is "dialup" the internal analog modem of the G5?
If so, I also have still problems with it. I wrote a question in this forum, but it seems I am the only one in the world without high speed internet connection.
Here is the link to my question: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=291352&tstart=0
To be more precise: I have the same problems, also with a replacement modem. The connection starts very fast for about one or two minutes and then goes down to about 1 kilobyte per second. My old Elsa modem (made in Germany) was much better, but Elsa went bankrupt some years ago ...
PS: You could search the internet for "Motorola SM56K", and you will find a lot of "nice" comments about this "Win-Modem" alias "Soft-Modem".
PS: I fould something which could be the command language of the modem, but it seems that the Mac-Modem is not fully compatible with the Win-Modem (or not every command has been implemented), i.e. I did not manage to limit the connection speed as I should have been able to. In fact I only managed to limit it to 33,6 kilobits/s, but not to other values. One has to edit the modem script for this stuff.
PS: Somebody who knows a lot about modems advised to select the V90 modem script and not the V92 script, but in my case there was no difference.
PS: There iss a pdf file on the Apple web site describing the AT command set of the SM56k. See http://manuals.info.apple.com/AppleSupport_Area/Manuals/other/UbiSurf_AT_CommandSet.pdf
(here it is called "UbiSurf SM56 Software Modem")

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Dialup speed very slow

We live in a rural area where we can not yet get high speed (except Hughes...too expensive--Wild Blue sold out of bandwidth--no one close enough for wireless yet). My dialup worked fine on my Mac until I attempted to setup a mixed Mac/PC 'network' by just connecting the Mac to the PC via the respective ethernet cards using Cat5e (still have not gotten that to work-Help?). Anyway, after messing with the ethernet and dialup settings on the Mac, my dialup (no, I'm NOT sharing the dialup connectioin)on the Mac is now really, really slow. The speed on the PC is normal. The computers both have their own phone jacks. Anyone know why the internet speed on the Mac changed? I deleted the connection, created a new one and it worked noramlly for about an hour. Now going very slowly again.

Before I obtained broadband, I had three computers sharing a dial up connection. It worked, except for that speed thing. Here is what I did.
Get an Apple Airport Dual Ethernet Basestation (ABS) with modem. I did this back when the Dual Ethernet model came out, so you may have to use eBay to find one. I had a "Snow" model 802.11b made before the Extreme models with 802.11g came out. An Extreme with modem (did they make them that way? Think so, but only for a while) would work.
The advantage of the Apple ABS (with modem) is that you wire your computers or use WiFi as if you were using high speed. When or if you ever get broadband, you disconnect the modem wire and connect the DSL, cable, or satellite box. Make a change of configuration from your Mac and you done.
Back to the story. If both of your computers are wired, you have a problem in that the ABS only has one Ethernet port. This is OK if you can use wireless for the other computers. If not, you need to find a 4 or 8 port Ethernet switch to expand the one port you have on the ABS to many. I got one of these back then cheap ($20 or something). They are not as common now that all routers have multiple ports.
Since the computers don't all request pages at the same time, the setup works better than you might think.
Right now, you've likely got your Mac slightly confused as to where the Internet is coming from, hence it is slow. I've seen this and it can tough to correct.
Hope this helps.
Now to confuse things. There might be a way to have the Mac use the modem to get the Internet and share the Internet with the PC over the Ethernet connection, but I've never done it.
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Why is the download speed so slow?

I have 100MB internet, and I am able to receive that speed with other applications. (I literally just tested with steam and got 9.1MB/s, at the same time as the Adobe download is running)
My Adobe download is 35 KB/sec or less, seriously guys? I don't intend to leave my PC downloading for 2 days just to get software!
I have tried both with the download manager (The download errored at 78% after I had left it running for about 6 hours) and now the browser (I've managed to get 1.6GB of the 5.8GB in 6 hours, currently running at 36.8KB/sec)
In the same time period I have downloaded the entire of GTA IV (15.6GB) and managed to play it for 5 hours!
Any idea what is causing it to be this slow or is the download service really this bad?

I'm using gigabit wired internet, with an appropriate network card and router, my firewall is completely disabled (both on my router and my pc) and I don't see why anti-virus should interfere with the download,
What is the general download speed normally received? Would you recommend using the browser download or the download manager?
I'm happy if this is just a "slow day" for adobe server or something, but my internet seems to be 100% fine as several other downloads I have tried have managed to get full speed even while the Adobe download is left running. (I obviously have had these other downloads off the majority of the time the adobe download has been running)
Cheers for the response,
Rob

Web page browsing speed drastically slowing down

I purchased a 13 inch mac book pro in December. Since day one, I have had a problem with my web page browsing speed drastically slowing down. These crippling slow down periods are completely random. They can start any time, and last from any amount of time. from minutes to hours.
95% of the time any attempt to load a page end in a time out. The other 5% takes no less then 90 seconds to load the simplest of pages. I have this problem no matter what browser I use (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera). What is driving me nuts is other applications work fine when browsing slows down. Skype, IM clients, multi-player games all work great, but web pages will not load. When I ping a website, my latency returns are perfectly normal. I can use Telnet and SSH with no problem.
This has become such a problem that I can not depend on using OS X day to day. I used boot camp to setup a windows partition and installed win 7. Using my win 7 install everything runs perfectly, I have had zero slow down!
I've done some searching and found numerous posts with similar problems. Ive read and followed the advice that I found, but I've had no success is fixing this.
I have had this problem on 6 different wireless networks. Each time this problem has come into play, my windows install performs flawlessly. This really makes me belive this is a software problem. Not hardware / ISP.
I see alot of post blaming default ISP DNS servers, just to let everyone know I use google's open DNS on my home network.
I also have changed the DNS settings in OS X
All other machines on my home network have zero problems!
Sending files between my laptop and other machines on my network works perfectly.
I have found a few posts / guides for using OnyX, none of them have worked for me
I have to be missing some simple thing here, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you for the welcome and the quick response Glynn
I rebooted into OS X as soon as I read your response. Web pages would not load.
I followed your instructions.
The Airport Light was green.
I went ahead and hit assist me and ran the diag tool. According to the tool my internet connection is working correctly.
Sadly the problem persists and web pages still will not load in all four browsers.
I ran a ping to google.com and responses were well under 45 ms.
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Speed very slow for last 3 days or so.....121kbps ...

M speed is usually 1.5mb been down to about 300 the last few days and dipped now at 121 and just a measly 97 this morning....
done all the usual checks, and i noticed on a local internet forum last night that other is my area are suffering the same too with no explanation from BT
(my daling code is 01595)
phoned BT...he said there were no faults it must be my end, repeated all the checks including the microfilter, he then said there WAS a problem with outtage and it would be 8 days before my speed was returned to normal....when i questioned this he explained it was cos of a powercut somewhere in the UK for 4 hours?????eh?
he then went on to quiz me if i had selected 1 when i phoned to leave feedback, when i said i had he seemed quite aggitated, quized me more about selecting to leave feedback and told me this effected his performance.
he then told me not to phone BT again for the next 10 days as this would confuse people and it would be an extra week on top of the 8 days i would have to wait for my normal broadband speed.
i am obviously totally disatisfied...i just want to know why my speed is slow and when it will return to normal
anyone help.???
my dailing code is not on any of the service status pages

is this what you mean
DSL Connection
Link Information
Uptime:
0 days, 4:10:58
Modulation:
G.992.1 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:
448 / 448
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/MB]:
5.39 / 39.37
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:
12.0 / 14.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:
31.5 / 63.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:
12.0 / 16.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote):
TMMB / P
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
70 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote):
0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
450 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down):
0 / 421,367
CRC Errors (Up/Down):
0 / 11,336
HEC Errors (Up/Down):
0 / 6,718
Line Profile:
Interleaved
i phoned BT again, spent 2 hours on the phone!!! we went through the usual checks etc, this time they
tested the line properly and confirmed they could see i had very slow speed, but couldn't tell me why?
they said they would reset the line and i should see an improvement in 24 to 48 hours and it should return to usual in 8 day?? i still dont understand.....
and its still as slow as 112kbps..as me and partner both rely on internet for our work and training its just painful waiting for this to be solved!!
i just want a clear explantion what is happening/why its happening and when will it be fixed?

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answer or solution: Per Apple Genius in Palo Alto, CA
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