Slow authentication when off home network

Hi,
I use my G4 in the office, at home, and on the road. My network guys at work set me up with a "mobile account". When I log in at work, it takes less than 15 seconds after hitting the "login" button before the standard OS X screen starts assembling itself, which is great. Logins are similarly rapid when I'm somewhere without network access, like on a plane. My problem only kicks in where my Airport can detect a wireless network, e.g. at home or in the airport. When my computer can sense a network but I'm not at work, logging in takes an inordinately long time (at least five minutes).
I am not a net jock, but I know enough to suspect that this delay has something to do with an attempt to authenticate. Any suggestions on how to change my settings such that authentication is only attempted on my office network, and just use cached data elsewhere?
Thanks,
Chris

You probably need a local firewall to block outbound kerberos traffic (port 88 udp/tcp) when you are off your home net. See:
http://eportg.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/t/ss/tss-unix/wiki/1/index.shtml?Macx/K erberosTimeout
iBook G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.6) white

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You had indicated in the OP that you were using an SSL port (i.e. 465) to send out, so the question never came up as to what if you were using port 25 for some reason. We all thought you had already covered that, which apparently you didn't. 995 is the SSL port for POP (receving end) and 465 is the SSL port for SMTP (the sending end). You need to make it a habit to use these ports anyway if supported by your email host as it'll keep these issues from happening and it'll also secure that email connection as well.
In terms of why it wasn't erroring out on you with port 25 quickly enough, when ports are blocked, the traffic just gets dumped, so perhaps your email client was looking for a port closed response from the email server in question... something that won't happen when the traffic is simply being blocked/dropped at the network level.
Anyway, you solved your issue via what we all thought you had in place anyway based on your OP info.

Slow boot when connected to network

Hi
I have a macbook pro and an imac, both recently updated and have noticed that since the update there is a significant delay, right at the start of the boot process, if either machine is connected to a network. Both my machines are running boot camp with windows 7.
On both machines, if I hold the "ALT" key to select a disk when powering on and the machine is connected to my network (which uses static IP addresses), there is a delay of a minute or so before the boot disks are displayed. If they are not connected then the disks are displayed almost immediately.
My question then: What's going on? The IP addresses are static so what could they possibly be waiting for?
Cheers
Mark

Hi,
How about Safe Mode? Have you tried it? In addition, please try to upgrade your BIOS and motherboard driver to be latest for test.
Be warned: Flashing BIOS is a risky process. If power is interrupted during the update your machine will be rendered unusable.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Echo on outbound calls when on Home Network Extender

Hello, I'm having serious trouble making outbound calls. Someone in my neighborhood has a network extender. I get this little house with curvy lines above it that indicate that I'm connected to it while in the basement. about 80% of the time I make an outbound call it will last from 2-10 seconds, before the other person's end drops, and I hear a perfect echo of my voice. It doesn't sound like an echo though, it's like myself talking back to me. It has about a 1 second delay. This has happened on 3 different phones over the last 6 months and sometimes takes over 5 calls to finally connect and have it go through and be stable.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to opt out of a network extender and make my phone only connect to towers? It's killing me and I need to figure this out as I am about to start up a business and will be making most of my calls from the basement. Thank you!

Yeah if they white list their own numbers but you may still need a network extender to offset theirs

Text smudged/blurred - hardware acceleration on, page very slow/unresponsive when off

Other users have reported the same problem but the proposed solution does not work for me.
The text is blurred/smudged - only on Facebook, probably because the page is quite big. If I turn off hardware acceleration, the text is no longer blurry but the page becomes almost unresponsive - the smooth scroll is lost, actually, there's no scrolling at all - the page moves half-screen at a time (per scroll), or sometimes doesn't scroll at all.
My hardware isn't the newest thing out there but isn't that bad either, I'd imagine: AMD Phenom II X4 945 (4 x 3 GHz) and Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 (1 GB). So, if Firefox can't use the graphics adapter, isn't the processor powerful enough for it to properly render a page like FB?

I created a new boolean called "layout.paint_rects_separately" and set it to "true".
I haven't done much testing yet -- just opened FB a couple of times -- but I don't notice any smudging. Let's say problem solved!
I will write again here if it re-occurs.
Thank you!

Slow login after sleep or slow authentication when click on lock in prefs

takes about 30 seconds to login after sleep or clicking on the lock during a system preference change
9/16/09 6:33:32 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[120] (com.apple.pbs) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
9/16/09 6:34:12 PM System Preferences[1294] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class LoginItemsTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
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See:
Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
Mac OS X speed FAQ,
Speeding up Macs,
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X, and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X for starters.
BTW, reinstalling the OS only puts down new copies of OS components and basic Apple apps, such as TextEdit, Mail, and Safari, leaving everything else in place. The nuke and reinstall isn't needed.

IMessage slows entire home network when sending images?

Does anyone have a CLUE why a picture sent through iMessage when on WiFi would slow down my internet connection accross my whole home network? For example run a ping test and I get normal 25ms pings to google.com > send picture on iPhone on WiFi > ping jumps to 300+... AGAIN THIS IS A PICTURE NOT A HUGE VIDEO.........
Sidenote: before you say its my router, this issue was present on my old router. I will take a look at any suggestions but highly doubt that its a router issue.
Phone: iPhone 5 White
Carrier: AT&T
ISP: Wide Open West
Bandwith: 15mbs down | 1mbs up

That's pretty common in the US. It's the ISP's being cheap, basically. They assume that home users have no need to upload large quantities of data, just download. And 90+% of the time, that's true. Unfortunately, it's easy to overwhelm a 1 Mbps uplink. If it only lasts a few seconds, it's not a big deal.
It doesn't matter how large the files are. The only thing that matters is whether you saturate the connection. Things like facetime are self limiting. They only generate data so fast. File uploads, on the other hand, will cram as much as they can fit up the pipe.

I have several questions: 1. When I connect my Iphone using Wi-Fi what can I then do? Why won't my Iphone recognize my home network run off of Airport Extreme, and the app Nike Ipod sensor never activates.

I went to Starbucks this morning and my Wi-Fi on my Verizon Iphone connected, what does this allow me to do? My Wi-Fi does not recognize my home network from which I connect wirelessly to my MacBookPro and to my Apple TV using Airport Extreme router, why? Lastly, what do about the app NIke + Ipod not working. The sensor does not activate even after walking a half mile.

It might be best to ask only one question in each post otherwise you may never be able to mark them as solved.
I went to Starbucks this morning and my Wi-Fi on my Verizon Iphone connected, what does this allow me to do?
It should allow you to access the internet, read mail, etc.
My Wi-Fi does not recognize my home network from which I connect wirelessly to my MacBookPro and to my Apple TV using Airport Extreme router, why?
Try restarting your router (remove power for 30 seconds and restart). It may not be properly assigning an IP address to your iPhone.

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