Very Slow Downloading

Hi I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Before downloading a file was very quick. Now it takes 30 minutes to download a 6 mb application. Website browsing is fast though, it's just downloading that's very slow. I'm using Safari. Any help is greatly appreciated

OK, three more easy things to check.
1. After the upgrade, did you repair permissions?
If nor, do that now, OK?
2. Do you have another User Account on your Mac?
If not, made one called "test. Here's how to get there:
Apple Icon>System Preferences>Accounts.
Click the plus sign down at the bottom of the pane
and add a new "test" user.
(You will be asked for your Administrative Password (the main one for your Mac.)
Click OK. Make it administrative. Does your network work any better in the new account?
3. Do you have any antivirus or firewall apps on there?

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Hi,
I am experiencing very slow downloading speeds, when I am just normally downloading something in Safari, or downloading a torrent with upto 100 seeders.
The maximum download speed I have seen on my computer is 80kb/s, which is painfully slow for downloading the Adobe trials, when they reach about 1gb.
I have a router, connected to 2 computers, and speedtest.net has told me that my download speed is 1mb/s.
It seems like download speeds are being restricted to 80kb/s, so is there any way to 'unlock' full potential downloading speeds?
Any help much appreciated!
-Ollie
Message was edited by: Ollie A

I think you're making the same mistake a lot of people make.
The maximum download speed I have seen on my computer is 80kb/s
Safari reports downloads in kiloBYTES per second, not kilobits, so that 80KB/s translates to about 640 kilobits per second.
downloading the Adobe trials, when they reach about 1gb
Really? 1 gigabit per second? I assume that's a typo.
speedtest.net has told me that my download speed is 1mb/s
therefore your downloads are progressing at about 64% of maximum. That sounds about right - you won't get maximum throughput for every download - it will vary based on server location, network load and more.

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No magical keystroke remedy. The causes for this can be complicated.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
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Hi, I'm experiencing very slow download speed with Macbook pro recently. Tried download the same file using a Window notebook worked fine. please help.
I was downloading a spreadsheet from Hotmail: Download speed on Mac: 700b/s; Download speed on Window Notebook: 2Mb/s.

That's insane.
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I run Apple os/x latest version and have since yesterday begun to experience constant very slow download speeds.
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OS data&colon; Name = Mac OS X, Architecture = x86_64, Version = 10.8.2
Java data&colon; Vendor = Apple Inc., Version = 1.6.0_37
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Hi,
Like many other users have posted I have been having problems with very slow downloads in the last few days and connection problems to the itunes store where the rest of the internet was fine.
After trying disabling firewalls, upgrading to IE7 etc. etc. I tried using Anonymizer SSL to bypass my ISP and any country restrictions and create a direct pipe from my PC to the anonymizer servers in the USA. I should add I am in Japan by the way and access the US store but have had no problems up until a few days ago.
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Hi spike_japan,
Thanks for the info! However, I've been trying to find a software that does this for Mac comps, but i cant find one. Also, they only work when you want to surf the web anonymously.
Can you enlighten me on how you bypassed your isp to connect straight to the anonymizer servers in the USA? I'm also using the iTunes store and for the past 2 weeks, i've been getting really slow downloads. I've been downloading a tv episode for over a week one - not one season, one episode. It says 80 hours remaining. So please help me out.
I'm sure many peope are having this problem too. Thanks in advance.
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Windows users:
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-TCP-IP-settings
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What you did was fine. Leopard is a little different to 10.4.11, but:
Repairing permissions is an important part of regular maintenance, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update.
Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
This only takes a minute or two.
Background information here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
and here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
If you were having any serious problems with your Mac you might as well complete the exercise by repairing your hard disk as well. You cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.

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FF 27.0.1 very slow download/resolving clicked links/resolve reloads. Computer slows to a halt. New Win7.

Firefox has been running extraordinarily slow. Pages takes sometimes minutes (really) to download/resolve; clicking on links on a page takes many seconds, up to a minute, to register, then the click takes more time to resolve. Autoreloading pages take many minutes to resolve. While all this is going on, the computer slows down, and typing will slow to an almost halt. Characters take many seconds to show up, selected text takes many seconds to register, etc. This is a new computer, 12G of RAM, lots of hard drive. My bf is currently sharing this computer and uses IE. I'm now filling in this form on IE because FF was so painfully slow. And, btw, I don't have a large number of tabs open. About 15 right now.
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Server+not+found
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firewalls
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/fix-problems-connecting-websites-after-updating

Illustrator CS5, very slow download.... i am new to this, thanks!

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Email: [email protected]

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