Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-14 Thread Krys Weaver
did you or someone go over your cap on dsl just a thought and is it wireless if so check the speed in the router/setup On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: Do we blame low bandwidth DSL or the Mac? A member of our Mac user group says her

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2012-07-14 Thread Shields E-mail
Recently purchased new Mac book pro. Want to transfer files from old iBook G4 running Mac OSX. 10.4.11, 1.07GHz power PC G4,1.25 GB DDR SDRAM but migration assistant tells me the operating system on the iBook needs to be upgraded however it is the latest system available for this hardware, I

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2012-07-14 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jul 14, 2012, at 4:38 AM, Shields E-mail wrote: Recently purchased new Mac book pro. Want to transfer files from old iBook G4 running Mac OSX. 10.4.11, 1.07GHz power PC G4,1.25 GB DDR SDRAM but migration assistant tells me the operating system on the iBook needs to be upgraded however

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-14 Thread Dan
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

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-14 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 14, 11:07 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 2:33 PM -0700 7/12/2012, Al Poulin wrote: and what browser is involved?  Does the problem occur with other browsers? This is using Safari, updated just a few days ago. I've suggested trying Chrome, which made my teenage granddaughter

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-14 Thread Dan
At 8:57 AM -0700 7/14/2012, Al Poulin wrote: 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. Thanks, I'm passing this on to her. So the 1 MB RAM is rather minimum for some downstreaming. Do

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-14 Thread Dan
At 1:09 PM -0400 7/14/2012, Dan wrote: levels out to around 700 Mbps for a while, then spikes back to 1.5 to 2 Mbps as it rebuffers. 700 Kbps. :) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group

Re: Hardware test error 4SNS/1/40000001:VDOR

2012-07-14 Thread Dan
At 9:04 PM -0700 7/11/2012, druidygal wrote: It's me again. The gal with the kernel panic a couple of weeks ago. I took out the bad RAM that I had recently put in the machine, and it helped stabilize things (no crashes or kernel panics). I ran Applejack as per Bruce and Dan's instructions. But

Re: Hardware test error 4SNS/1/40000001:VDOR

2012-07-14 Thread druidygal
Hi Dan, Okay, I ran Disk Utility, selected mac HD and had it Verify, and it found no errors. (appears to be OK). Cool! Of the 160 G on my hard drive, I have 132.76 G of free space. I use Safari for browsing, and I cleared caches and cookies a few weeks ago. I do get the spinny beach balls when

Re: Hardware test error 4SNS/1/40000001:VDOR

2012-07-14 Thread Dan
At 5:52 PM -0700 7/14/2012, druidygal wrote: Okay, I ran Disk Utility, selected mac HD and had it Verify, and it found no errors. (appears to be OK). Cool! Good. Of the 160 G on my hard drive, I have 132.76 G of free space. Good. I use Safari for browsing, and I cleared caches and