Why is internet so slow

Why is the internet on my MacBook Air so slow eat all Starbucks ?
Running pax 10.8.5

Hi Mike162,
If you are having issues with the speed of your wireless connection, you may find the following article helpful:
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
Regards,
- Brenden

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Why is internett so slow with Airport express???

Hi!
I have a mac mini and a pc.
I sometimes think that my mac mini is so slow when I use Internett.
There is a norwegian page that I have tested it on... and the answere was alarmin:
My pc had a connection of: about 4000 kbit/s connected to wireless and airport express... and about 6000 with out wireless.... hmmmm I tested it many times...
My mac mini (which is in my livingroom) had a connection at only 919 kbit/s????
why is it sooooooo slow???? can I do anything to speed it up????

Great Henry,
That was great advice, I have been unofficially been working in WiFi for my school and this is one of the most clear responces I've seen from discussions. Anyways some things that I do believe that you forgot was cordless phones 2.4Ghz range, microwave ovens, DSS (Direct Satellite Service), Electrical things like power lines, Other airport/WiFi stations, and moving objects made of metal between the computer and base station. Those are all broad things. Usually things like that won't effect it but it really depends. For the cordless phone you just need to change the channel on the airport. I hope that helps, Good Luck!
Jon
PS I have found that sometimes its just plain wackey, usually cause of wires and such things in the walls

Why is Internet so slow?, Why is Internet so slow?

I am having problems with my Internet connection being so slow, any suggestions?

skee1211 wrote:
I am having problems with my Internet connection being so slow, any suggestions?
Here are several basic troubleshooting suggestions. Clearing Safari - the last one here, might be the best - if any of these help at all. Obvioisly, these may help if the problem is with the iPad - if the issue is with your ISP - that's a different story altogether.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
Quit all apps and restart the iPad. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the task bar will appear with all of your recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button. Restart the iPad.
Go to Settings>Safari>Clear History, Cookies and Data. Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.

I updated from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and dont like many of the changes. Why won't homepage open in full screen? and why are internet searches slower?

I updated from Snow Leopard to Mountain
Lion and homepage wont open in fullscreen.
web searches are slower to load too.
what give?

What homepage are you referring to? The one in in safari? Elsewhere?

Can anyone explain why my internet is slowing down...

I noticed today my router had reset in the night and dropped speed, ive had a bad time with speed since getting BT infinity and finally it was at the 70mb i was suppost to get. Until i woke up today its slowly going down.
Heres some stats to see what i mean.
8th of may: ( 132.050000) PPPoE is up - Down Rate=73169000Kbps, Up Rate=19999000Kbps; SNR Margin Down=6.4dB, Up=6.8dB
10th of may: (101396.720000) PPPoE is up - Down Rate=61625000Kbps, Up Rate=18010000Kbps; SNR Margin Down=7.9dB, Up=5.4dB
later on the tenth of may : ( 132.910000) PPPoE is up - Down Rate=61763000Kbps, Up Rate=17874000Kbps; SNR Margin Down=8.0dB, Up=5.6dB
6. Data rate: 17874 / 61763
7. Maximum data rate: 23082 / 85534
8. Noise margin: 5.7 / 8.0
9. Line attenuation: 23.3 / 19.4
10. Signal attenuation: 23.3 / 19.4
11. Data sent/received: 1.0 MB / 3.0 MB

test socket is here
or do you have this socket
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Why is internet slow

I'm wondering why my internet access is so very slow. I have Mavericks OS X 10.9.2 on an iMac late 2013. It just starred going slowly in the last five days. My Ipad 3 uses the same apple airport wifi network and works very fast. This makes me think it is a problem with the iMac and not the modem or airport wireless router. Any ideas?

While I was waiting for a post, I started searching and discovered a post about turning off photo sharing on icloud. I turned off and my system returned to normal. Internet surfing is fast again.

Why my iphone 5 slow my internet service in wifi connection

Why my iphone 5 slow my internet service in Wifi connection?
Also when my iphone 5 is not in use still use Wifi connection, is
Something whit my iphone or what i can do to fixed?
Thank you

does any one have this problem? that iphone 5 show searching and no service, and show signalin 3g and u can ring, but nothing after u swap to answer?
in 3g i can ring other fones but its like no network connection after this

Why is internet so painfully slow on my new Macbook Pro Retina?

Why is internet so painfully slow on my new Macbook Pro Retina?

Symptom: The Wi-Fi network seems slow
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How can an external drive cause my Internet to slow to a crawl and then fail?

I have two WD My Passport Ultra 1 TB USB 3 new drives. One I'm using for Time Machine and one for CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner). I have been trying to use them with my new MacBook Pro retina 13-inch.
For the last few days I've had weird problems trying to connect them via a USB 3 hub. I though the hub was the problem (because things seemed to be fine until I introduced a hub into the equation) and already returned one.
But now I see the same thing happening even without the hub.
It appears that one drive, when connected to a USB 3 port (it doesn't matter which port), even when it's doing nothing (I erased and and removed the CCC task), causes the Internet to slow to a crawl, and then stop. All connectivity ceases.
The instant I unmount and remove the drive the Internet springs back to normal speeds - over wifi about 110 Mbps.
Disk Utility says there are no problems with the disk. So does WD's only diagnostic utility. And the firmware is up-to-date.
The other disk, running Time Machine, seems to have no issues at all.
I guess I will return this drive. It could be subtly defective in some way. But what way? Why would an external USB 3 drive affect the Internet connectivity?
doug

I came across this post while in search of the answer to the very same question only I am experiencing this problem when connecting to a USB 3.0 hub and nothing else. The resuling slowdown in my internet speed leaves me hanging intermittently between screens in Safari, sometimes indefinitely. When I remove the USB cable, normal speeds resume. Activity Monitor shows no undue load on the CPU. I did not notice this problem until just recently. Could this have something to do with the recent OSX patch.
BTW: I am running a 2012 15" MacBook Pro with Retina display.
Anybody have a clue as to what might be going on here?
Gerry

Why does Photoshop keep slowing down?

I've been using Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 for two years now, and for some reason it seems to have the problem of slowing down after using it for a while, so if I'm working on a project I have to keep closing it and reopening it to get it fast again. It's weird because it doesn't seem to matter how much stuff is on the canvas, it's just how much I've drawn and hit undo and erased or did anything, After like 5 minutes of straight work it just gets too slow for me to work in, like when I switch tools or change the color it takes a couple seconds to respond. So literally every couple minutes I have to restart Photoshop and open the same file.
What's really odd is that sometimes Photoshop will work perfectly fine and stay lightning fast for hours. Like, for the last couple of months it's been 100% fine, but since a few days ago it started to have this "slowing down" issue again. Every couple months it seems to decide to be perfectly fine or just really annoying. I didn't change anything in my computer.
It can't be my computers specs or my settings in Photoshop, but I will tell you all of that anyway.
OS - Windows 7 64-bit
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz
RAM - 12GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz

There is no malware scanner running, in fact I have tried closing out all other applications and unnecessary processes to help improve performance. No luck.
Also, my post actually wasn't quite finished, but my internet shut off on me last night and I guess that just automatically posted whatever I had done before then. What's even better is that the forums won't allow me to edit it. What great features!
Anyway, here's the FULL spec sheet of my computer...
OS - Windows 7 64-bit
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz
RAM - 12GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB
Storage - 1x 128GB SSD (OS installed on), 1x 750GB HDD, 1x 160GB HDD
I have the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS5.1 Extended, installed on the SSD. Here's the settings I have in the preferences:
Memory Usage - 100%
Scratch Disks - All 3, SSD 1st, 750GB HDD 2nd, 160GB HDD 3rd
History States - 100
Cache Levels - 8
Cache Tile Size - 1028K
I have fiddled with these settings and restarted Photoshop countless times. In the end it's the same exact result: Photoshop slows down after a few minutes of work and I have to restart it. I have about 50GB free on the SSD, 150GB free on the 750GB, and about 140GB free on the 160GB.
I don't understand why it gets so slow even when my RAM usage only makes it up to about 45%. Why doesn't it just utilize ALL of the memory like I told it to?
I've tried setting cache to 1, 2, and 4, same result. Cache tile size to all the different settings, same result. History states to an extremely low level like 10, same result. I just don't understand why Photoshop is doing this, especially because it decides to speed up on its own every couple of months...

Internet is Slowing Down

Ok, look I know that there are some very informed computer techs here. That is why I came here to the Apple forums,,And what I want is the truth. Yes I want you to cough up the truth one of you tecchies out there who are familiar with what exactly in the 9e11 is going on here? The INTERNET has slowed down all accross the U.S.A.
I have tried with a reformatted Apple with 10.4.9 ,,,A fresh new PC, a Mac book at my friends Look, it does not matter where I go. The internet has slowwed down. I have ATT with the DSL Elite Package and when I do a speed test it says 5.3 Mbps. or so. But in real life is runs like 750 Kbps. Here I live in the North Bay Area, Napa Valley. So I am close to the main hubs in San Jose and San Fran.
So what gives? What is going on?
Ok now here is the deal, I clearly remember ripping fast speeds for YouTube and all those sites and stuff would download FAST! Now since about 2006 it has been rapidly slowing down. It seems that the bandwidth testers are not giving a true speedtest. I think the speedtesting system has been hacked or they are all unified in decieving everyone. I am not being fooled anymore. The internet has slowed down. Way down.
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Now since about 2006 it has been rapidly slowing down. It seems that the bandwidth testers are not giving a true speedtest. I think the speedtesting system has been hacked or they are all unified in decieving everyone.
Of course you go to check your speed and "they" devote all resources to make it look good!
While I'm on Dial-up, my GF of 32 year has Comcast with it's bloated speeds & further boated "Burst" speeds, which last about the 1st KB, LOL.
I am not being fooled anymore. The internet has slowed down. Way down.
It's not your Internet anymore, It's Sell, Sell, Sell, even if we have to use inefficient Flash Code, or Proprietary MS code... give 'em a break, Billions of income is no good if you can't turn it into trillions overnight!
Still...
Use Firefox with several of it's great Add-ons, and Try putting these numbers in Network>TCP/IP>DNS Servers for the Interface you're using...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Then Apply. These are safer/faster than most ISP's DNS numbers, and have been patched against DNS poisoning.
https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/device/apple-osx-tiger

Internet really slow on my macbook

I am using linksys WRT54G for my macbook and two imacs. The internet is so much slower on my macbook than on the imacs. I can't use the CD for setup because that is only for windows and i am using a mac. How is it possible that internet speed is so much slower on one computer and not on the other two, but im using the same router? Is there something wrong with the configuration on my macbook? Someone told me to type in the router on my web browser and change the setting to allow only G-access, but that didnt affect the speed. I dont know what to do

Sounds like a corrupted cache file, see the OnyX routine here.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
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Why is it so slow to upload a video on Youtube?

I tried to upload a video on Youtube,But it was soooo slow on my Macbook Pro newiest version! Why is it soo slow? Please Answer Back

Arjana2 wrote:
I tried to upload a video on Youtube,But it was soooo slow on my Macbook Pro newiest version! Why is it soo slow? Please Answer Back
There can be several reasons:
You have a slow Internet connection
You Tube is experiencing connection slowness
Anywhere in the route between you and You Tube is experiencing slowness
I'd start troubleshooting with the Internet connection. What upload speed are you paying for? What upload speed are you getting?

Internet going slower because of WRT54GS?

I just recently upgraded my WRT54GS's firmware yesterday and it the internet was going at super fast speed and everything was working well, but now (Today) my internet is slower than usual, could this be because of the router? Do you guys know why this is happening? Also, can you give me some suggestions on how to make the internet restore its fast speed? Thanks!

To be honest, the first time I accidentally let go and the second I only got to 26. Should I re-set one more time and actually get to 30?

Downloaded Mountain Lion on my iMac. Why is it so slow opening up from sleep and taking so long for the wireless mouse to engage?

Downloaded Mountain Lion on my iMac. Why is it so slow opening up from sleep and taking so long for the wireless mouse to engage?

Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
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Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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