I have checked my download speeds and depending on time of day, am getting between 1.2 & 1.8Mbps. I have recently cut across to the Free (Starter pack, upto 2Mbps I guess, PPPoE) Orange broadband service when my phone deal recently rolled over and to start with, didn't notice any reduction of response speed from my previous ISP. Over time, I have come to notice a gradual decline in speed in which a web browser will load a page. I was using Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3) but following a call to Orange BB helpdesk today, I have started using FireFox as a web browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel MAC OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6) as they said that Orange doesn't support Safari! The helpdesk then proceeded to tell me that I needed to use IE7!!! as a web browser and had I ensured that my anti-virus was configured correctly! I do run Parallels but do not believe that this has any adverse effect on web browser response times. Only use Parallels for one application and only start the VM/image as/when I need it, not all the time. Am running MAC OS X Version 10.4.10 Build 8R2218. I am running a Netgear DG834T with a WEP profile for security. I don't believe this to be the problem either as I disabled Airport yesterday and plugged in a Cat5 cable direct into one of the router's 4 ethernet ports and it was still as slow there so not a wireless problem.
I have cleared cache, history, cookies etc. Still slow!
Anyone have any ideas? Could it be DNS issue? DNS currently derived through DHCP. Or is this simply contention rate issue to local exchange (2.55km to exchange as crow flies) and I need to fork out for a better broadband package? Or something I have completely forgotten about?
Check your synchronisation speeds in your router configuration pages and then do a speed test. your download throughput speed will generally be up to 500kbps below your download synch speed, below this and there could be a problem. If Orange have put you on a package running at 2meg then around 1500kpbs throughput would be acceptable, if the speeds are dropping below this only at certain times ie peak periods it may simply be a congestion issue and unfortunately there is little that will help that other than Orange pulling its finger out and paying BT to increasing capacity.
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