Networking ?
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- mikeim
We just moved into office space we share with someone else who kindly let us use their (supposed) T1 connection. So the tech guys comes in for an hour, sets us up with some IP addresses and charges us 300.00 bucks. Anyway we have 2 Macs (running OSX) and 1 PC.
Thing is that our Macs connect at the speed of a dial up modem and the PC seems to connect pretty fast. We can't even download a 3MB file without it stalling. And then it doesn't even try to continue to download. It just gets stuck at where ever it left off.
Is there some setting we should adjust on our Mac to connect faster?
- mikeim0
hElP
- arlo0
Sounds like you've been had.
- sparker0
chances are for one thing, it's not a full t1 - probably a fractional...
second, it is dependent on how much traffic the both of you generate on the network at a given time...especially if there is a lot of outside communication happening - ie. downloads, ftp, if you have an inhouse server...etc.
could be a samba problem...
what type of servers are running the network? is it a pc network or a unix/linux network?
- lind0
I work at 2 different offices and the broadband Internet connection at both places is much slower on the Mac, sometimes slower than my dial-up at home.
It seems a lot of techies don't know how to use the Mac. I didn't help you, huh?
- ribit0
it's simple...
Go to http://bandwidthplace.com/speedt…
Run the test on all the computers.
Show results to techy.
Insist he fixes it. This should not be a PC or Mac issue.. it's just a networking issue.