Terribly Slow Internet - MacBook Pro - Leopard

Hello,
I've got somewhat of a strange problem. I've
seen all the posts about wireless network
connectivity cutting in and out but my connection
is quite persistent. I can connect to other
computers (PCs) on my network and the network
connection runs fast.
However, when I try to connect to internet sites
the speed goes through the floor...it lags and
often stops loading the page. A lot of the time
the page loads as if it doesn't have a CSS style
sheet or something so I just see unformated text.
Anyone have any ideas what the issue is? I've
already set my wireless router to run on WEP
128 bit encryption and updated the firmware on
my router to the latest version that was released
2 weeks ago. I've also tried connecting the Mac
to the router with an ethernet cable and still no go.
Here's what I'm working with:
Router: DLink DIR-655 Wireless N Xtreme
OS: OS X 10.5 Leopard
MacBook Pro 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB Ram
120 GB Hard Drive
I just bought this Mac about a week ago and
it's my first Mac so bear with me. All the
PCs on my network fly on the internet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
DC
Message was edited by: deedod

by far the most applicable thread to my situ I too sometimes get weird text where graphics would be etc. I thought safari 3 had fixed it earlier but now its back to really really slow. The problem seems to be 'contacting' the site. Once it has it is quite fast unfortunatly the contacting part takes about 20 seconds. I just pinged microsoft.com check it out
Ping has started ...
PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (207.46.192.254): 56 data bytes
--- lb1.www.ms.akadns.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
and then apple.com
Ping has started ...
PING www.apple.com.akadns.net (17.112.152.32): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 17.112.152.32: icmp_seq=0 ttl=235 time=161.789 ms
64 bytes from 17.112.152.32: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=158.119 ms
64 bytes from 17.112.152.32: icmp_seq=2 ttl=235 time=174.153 ms
64 bytes from 17.112.152.32: icmp_seq=3 ttl=235 time=178.077 ms
64 bytes from 17.112.152.32: icmp_seq=4 ttl=235 time=160.925 ms
--- www.apple.com.akadns.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 50% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 158.119/166.613/178.077/7.950 ms
100% and 50% packet loss respectively.

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Slow Internet in Snow Leopard 10.6.8

This post is to express my frustration with the recent updates to snow leopard for OS Lion upgrade compatibility.
Now, many web pages I browse through my iMac take forever to load. This issue was not present in previous updates.
Already tried lots of tricks suggested by many of you (thank you to all - very good people) without success (permissions repair, preferences verify, cleaning caches, IPV6 off, google dns servers, dns repair, dns flush cache, ethernet on the top order, disabling router`s firewall, trashing apple.alf.plist etc, etc,).
I´m sure this is an Apple issue and I hope they fix it soon.

If you search for slow internet browsing in support you will find many people with this kind of issue.
Moreover I already did a test with a Macbook Pro with the same router, same ethernet cable and browsing was totally smooth.
Anyway I`ll follow your advice and will check if there is anything wrong.

AirPort Disk works on Vista but is ULTRA SLOW on MacBook Pro...please help.

This is nuts, huh? Please help.
I can copy files using Window's Vista at about 7MBps so it takes around 2min 40secs to copy a previously bought 1.3GB iTunes TV show from the AirPort Disk (connected via USB 2.0)to my Vista machine. I understand this is a reasonable speed, if you think it should go faster let me know. When I try to play it with iTunes directly from the Airport Disk(by control clicking it and telling it to play with iTunes, not sure this is the best way, advice appreciated) it plays okay but I get a fair amount of stutters where it will skip a 1-4 seconds. Any way to fix this? Or should I just download it to my computer and play it from there. I was trying to save space and confusion on my computers and just play via the Airport Extreme Disk.
NOW THE WEIRD STUFF! It takes 4 hours to download the same TV file mentioned above from the Airport Disk to my MacBook Pro! And to stream the movie from the Airport Disk is impossible. Can anyone offer suggestions? I searched online and could not find any help.
Additional Info that might be helpful:
-AirPort Extreme 340ll/a, Version 7.5(I assume that's the firmware version).
-I erased with 0s and formatted an external 7200RPM 8MB Western Digital drive to "Mac OS Extended Journaled" via my MacBook Pro's USB port, using Disk Utility.
-My wi-fi connections seems fine: for web surfing it is fast with my Macbook and Windows computers, so that's not a problem. FYI, I did some internet download speed tests and got like 15,000-20,000kbps, which is pretty good, right?
-I hooked the drive up directly to my MacBook Pro's USB 2.0 port and copied the same HD TV show file to the computer, and Apple's "Activity Monitor" utility showed it is reading and writing at 30MBps which I understand is quite good. So it does not appear to be a hard drive problem either.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Cause of problem:
I found out that the problem was that in the "Airport Utility" under "Internet Connection" tab, the "Connection Sharing" had been set to "Off(Bridge Mode)". This stopped my MacBook Pro from accessing the AirPort Disk(an external hard drive connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station). I still find it weird that My HP computer could access the AirPort Disk just fine and my MacBook Pro was so ultra slow(i.e. 4 hours to copy a 1.3GB file!) accessing files on the hard drive.
So, how did the default setting get changed to cause the problem to being with? I got some error pop-up box that said there were 2 NAT tables causing a conflict of some sort, so I followed it's instructions which put it in bridge mode which caused the problems. The reset of the wireless router put the "Connection Sharing" back into "Share a Public IP address" mode which is the default.
So anyway, this appears to be the end of this story, and I hope this post saves some people out there from some headaches and lost time!
Peace!

Terribly Slow Internet - MacBook Pro - Leopard

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