On 15-Feb-05, at 11:36 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
Not strange settings my ISP or router would need set differently from default? Argh. I was hoping it might be something fixable on my end.
Did it used to work and then stop? It's highly unlikely IMO that there'd be some strange setting, unless your ISP was doing something very non-standard.
Nope, it's been a problem the entire time I've had the Macs and tried to use any browser other than IE (first few months of my Mac use, I never tried any other browser, next several months I was on a different ISP).
Yeah, same thing happens, though.
Have you tried making a new administrator account on the computer, logging completely out of your old account and into the new account, and then try to connect? I'm completely pulling this out of the air, but it might be worth a shot.
No, it's not a specific computer thing, I've run four different Macs on this connection and they've *all* had the same problem. It'd have to be some default setting, if it were on the machines, so to fix them, I'd have to know what the thing was and how to fix it, rather than just another default setup.
If it isn't your software and it isn't your hardware, then your options are to live with it or get your ISP to help diagnose the problem.
If you don't die of old age on hold until someone picks up the phone, you find thhey don't seem to know dick all about Macs, and they say just use IE.
Ah yes, the old tech support lemmings...
Let me guess, you live in a rural area with few broadband options? (there are NONE where I live, so I can relate)
No, I live in downtown Toronto, where you can get DSL through Sympatico or cable through Rogers (which, in a highly populated area, is far worse - used the free trial last year and it was horrible! I'm not sure I thought to check other browsers during the short time we tried that, though...), and before we got DSL there was this line of sight from the CN Tower broadband thing that *never* worked.
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