At 2:33 PM -0700 7/12/2012, Al Poulin wrote:
A member of our Mac user group says her machine is getting slower to
websites and has "YouTube videos stopping and restarting all the
time." Apparently, there are no other performance problems.
iMac "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 20-Inch (Early 2008) with 1 GB RAM
OS X 10.5.8 Leopard
and what browser is involved? Does the problem occur with other browsers?
Has she done the basics -- cleared caches, cookies, etc? Does the
machine have any other speed issues not involving the web?
Internet access is via Verizon DSL. Speed test shows:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1017 kbps (127.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 375 kbps (46.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
and later:
Yeah, kind of slow, I know. The Verizon DSL website shows their basic
package at "Verizon High Speed Internet .5 to 1 Mbps."
If that's the service to which they've subscribed, then the speed test is good.
wrt YouTube make sure you're not trying to view the higher definition
versions of the videos. At 1 Mb, one should expect those to be
glitchy.
Maybe need to boost both the Internet bandwidth and the RAM??
Perhaps. But eliminate cache issues and such first.
Run Activity Monitor, to monitor the memory usage, etc. While 1 GB
is pretty much a minimum for Leopard, it should be enough to do
surfing and such.
- Dan.
--
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
--
You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group
for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs.
The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette
guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml
To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com
To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
