I ran into a situation this morning and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on the cause and any possible solution.
I logged into my iMac and also into my MBP. Both are running wirelessly off of an Airport Extreme (802.11n).
Opened Safari in each one. No other apps running in either. Did a speed test on the iMac (2.8GHz, 4GB RAM) and got very slow speeds (like 800kbps). Once that was complete, without starting anything else, I tried a speed test on the MBP. I got great speeds (4800kbps, I think my limit is just over 5000kbps). I tried again on the iMac but it stayed very slow. In fact twice, it wouldn't even complete the test.
I looked at the IP address that came up for my computers on the speed test site and they were both the same IP address (which makes sense, obviously since they both run off the same internet connection from the Airport Extreme).
Any ideas what could cause this huge difference in speed? And ideas about a possible solution?
Thanks,
n&e, m&c
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Last edited by nice&easy, mac&cheesey; Apr 20th, 2008 at 03:48 PM.
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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
- Milan Kundera
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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
- Milan Kundera
Fjnmusic,
Yeah, I reset Safari. I do this regularly. No impact on the issue.
Thom,
The iMac has 57.81 GB used with 239.96 GB free. The MBP has 19.26 GB used with 129.47 GB free. So it doesn't seem like that is the problem.
Weird. And I just logged in and ran the speed test after being gone all day and the numbers are much higher on the iMac than they were before (3627kb/s). The MBP is 4119kb/s. Fairly comparable speeds now.
Not really sure what to make of this. Any thoughts?
Thanks for the suggestions.
n&e, m&c
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- Milan Kundera
I think you need to take these speed test results with a grain of salt - a big grain of salt.
I tested my speed using speakeasy a little while ago and just by choosing different servers on that site, I got results that varied by almost a 2 to 1 ratio.
So it sure doesn't measure the maximum speed of the DSL connection, I don't see how that can vary that much in the span of a minute or two.
This was with the same computer, same everything except the speakeasy server I chose. Interestingly enough, the server that were furthest from me gave me the best results except for one.
I don't think you will ever find a rational explanation now - maybe your "slow" test was run through an overloaded server that couldn't handle the traffic and slowed things down that particular time.
krs,
I totally agree with taking the results with a big grain of salt. However, it was the performance of the computers that caused me to check the speed in the first place. The iMac was not loading pages and was sluggish to say the least. Simple text sites were taking forever to load. However, on the MBP they were speedy as expected. I checked the speed test sites just to quantify the difference. I could tell by the performance of the iMac that something was not right.
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- Milan Kundera
mikelc2,
Thanks. I wanted something with "mac" in it. I got it from a Dane Cook comedy routine. If you know the one, it's an extremely funny bit.
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- Milan Kundera
I got it from a Dane Cook comedy routine. If you know the one, it's an extremely funny bit.
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