Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-13 Thread John Hobbs
On 12 Jul 2012, at 22:33, Al Poulin wrote: Download Speed: 1017 kbps (127.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 375 kbps (46.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Al These are not dsl speeds. They are more akin to isdn rates. I take it you were previously able to watch Youtube videos without buffering which

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-13 Thread Judith Berkowitz
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:33:39 PM UTC-7, Al Poulin wrote: Do we blame low bandwidth DSL or the Mac? 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

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 12, 11:30 pm, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote: On 7/12/12 4:33 PM, Al Poulin wrote: This is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.4 20-Inch (Early 2008) with 1 GB RAM running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard. snip=== 1  Gig ram for OS X.5 ? How long has she had X.5 on it? This

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 13, 3:01 am, John Hobbs jfh...@googlemail.com wrote: On 12 Jul 2012, at 22:33, Al Poulin wrote: Download Speed: 1017 kbps (127.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 375 kbps (46.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Al These are not dsl speeds. They are more akin to isdn rates. I take it you