Some time ago I posted here looking for help about some really strange problems on my mac. Certain sites were dead slow, like 4 minute load times for the initial page and every click deeper into these sites also took forever. Also some sites would just absolutely not load, just blank pages with no errors whatsoever. But then the same site would load promptly under VPC on the same mac or my Atari hooked to the same lan sitting right next to it.
After trying every possible fix suggested here, every mac browser ever made, gobs of web searching for tips, cache cleaners, and other things, even reinstalling, etc. nothing solved it. And the problem was on 2 macs now, as my shiny new G5 exhibited the same issues right out of the box.
I had my neighbor connect his laptop, it also began to exhibit these problems. So what's the odds of 3 different macs, all different models with different OSX versions having the same problems? That's when I started to suspect the ISP.
In the end a new IP from my ISP solved it. They have no clue why. The only thing different is the subnet they moved me to. There is something quite screwy going on with that particular subnet I was on!
Many thanks to the ones that did respond to my posting, although it's
obvious now nothing I could have done would have solved it.
Some time ago I posted here looking for help about some really strange problems on my mac. Certain sites were dead slow, like 4 minute load times for the initial page and every click deeper into these sites also took forever. Also some sites would just absolutely not load, just blank pages with no errors whatsoever. But then the same site would load promptly under VPC on the same mac or my Atari hooked to the same lan sitting right next to it.
After trying every possible fix suggested here, every mac browser ever made, gobs of web searching for tips, cache cleaners, and other things, even reinstalling, etc. nothing solved it. And the problem was on 2 macs now, as my shiny new G5 exhibited the same issues right out of the box.
I had my neighbor connect his laptop, it also began to exhibit these problems. So what's the odds of 3 different macs, all different models with different OSX versions having the same problems? That's when I started to suspect the ISP.
In the end a new IP from my ISP solved it. They have no clue why. The only thing different is the subnet they moved me to. There is something quite screwy going on with that particular subnet I was on!
Many thanks to the ones that did respond to my posting, although it's
obvious now nothing I could have done would have solved it.
I've had similar problems across a number of Macs. It comes back from
time to time. My solution, which seems to work a treat, is to reboot my
DSL modem/router (a newish netgear). This seems to clear the
"blockage". I haven't had time to read up on the thread from which you
were thanking people for input, so I won't push this theory to hard:
could it be that the IP didn't fix it? Maybe in the process setting up
the new IP your router rebooted?
The guy at the ISP said he was going to do some heavy diagnostics on the subnet, since it didn't logically make any sense. Maybe I'll inquire and
see if they found out what it was. I'm still curious about the actual cause myself since it only seemed to afflict my macs. There was also some strange ping spoofing going on with my old IP, even if I shut ALL my equipment down, their logs showed that I was pinging their gateway constantly which was impossible. Could be they got someone else on this old subnet that has been hacked and/or causing these problems?
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