Rogers Portable internet and Safari

Sticks · Feb 16, 2009

Hi folks. In Dec. I bought a Roger Portable internet receiver. For the first month it just flew right along. I was extremely happy with it. For the last two months the time it takes to open a website and it's pages has slowed to dial up speed. Strangely, when I down load something from a site, it flies right alone. It just takes forever to get to the page. I contacted Rogers and they thought it was a firewall issue. It wasn't. When a speed test is done it shows the upload and download speed as top notch. I'm using a relatively new iMac Version 10.5.6 with dual Intel processors and a gig of ram. If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening and how to solved the problem, I would appreciate it. Thanks

Sticks

smashedbanana · Feb 17, 2009

Have you tried Firefox?

Sticks · Feb 17, 2009

Thanks for replying. I'm actually on Firefox as I write this. I keep testing both Firefox and Safari each time I try something but they are both slow until it comes to downloading. Are there any programs out there that check Macs for malicious software? It almost seems as if every web page is going through some other program before it opens on my browser.

Elric · Feb 17, 2009

Rogers as a relatively new DNS service, which has slowed down my own internet. Change the DNS server in your settings to one of Open DNS', that might solve it (it'll at least allow you to not have to type .com or www. anymore. Rogers is stupid.

Jess.H · Feb 17, 2009

Elric said:
Rogers as a relatively new DNS service, which has slowed down my own internet. Change the DNS server in your settings to one of Open DNS', that might solve it (it'll at least allow you to not have to type .com or www. anymore. Rogers is stupid.

I second the use of openDNS, I've been using it for years.

fjnmusic · Feb 17, 2009

I hope you didn't install Spring Cleaning or any other Smith Micro app on your computer. I had really strange things happen when I did, like all graphics on web pages disappearing months later and a Net Blockade sign showing up. Stay away form this stuff.

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