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

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: 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

Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-12 Thread Al Poulin
Hello: 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 problems. This is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.4 20-Inch (Early 2008