The Official OS X Annoyance Thread: Slow Internet Performances

Hi!
It seems that there's a lot of people with poor internet performance out there. I'm surely not alone. And we already crawled every **** google page about it. I tried EVERY solution. The 4.2.2.1 trick, opendns, a lot of different stuff and nothing worked. Nothing!
But it seems that my case is the worst: I'm not limited to 500kb/s. I'm limited to something like 5kb/s!!!
I just have to boot on windows XP and I can fully use my connection. Every computer in the house is running fine so it is NOT the router. (The router is using openDNS as well).
So I would like to ask you people, to try to find a solution <Edited by Moderator>. Because it is a real pain the the *!
I have a Macbook (Early 2006). With the latest updates. So it should not be a problem... Please do something, it's been over a month since I began trying every tip that has been given to me on forums.
Thanks a lot for your help!
- Tom

tomfromwkup wrote:
Hi!
It seems that there's a lot of people with poor internet performance out there. I'm surely not alone. And we already crawled every **** google page about it. I tried EVERY solution. The 4.2.2.1 trick, opendns, a lot of different stuff and nothing worked. Nothing!
I just have to boot on windows XP and I can fully use my connection. Every computer in the house is running fine so it is NOT the router. (The router is using openDNS as well).
Does the router have the very latest firmware? Many routers work well with Tiger and earlier versions of Leopard and PCs, but not with the latest versions of Leopard unless they have the latest firmware updates.

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Hello all,
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the question is : why today ??? i didn't change anything serious lately.
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Do a Safe Boot.
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(Presumably you regularly empty your Safari cache by deleting the following file:
Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/cache.db
and clear your History)
Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security, (including anti-phishing and redirects) (Full information about Open DNS is here: http://www.opendns.com/home/nobloat ) and further independent information can be read here:
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killall -9 WebKitPluginHost
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For this and other reasons Apple switched their websites to HTML5 in January 2011:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408

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hello,
i'm joão from Portugal, Europe.
a couple of weekends ago i've updated three macs to Lion.
2009 MacMini, 2007 White Macbook, 2010 iMac 21".
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humm...
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Please remember people reading your post only know as much as you detail in it.
ive read the posts offered here and tried the many workarounds
What have you tried specifically?
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im using ethernet to avoid disconnecting problems but id prefer wireless with my setup if possible.
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