Hi Diana, Have you read yesterdays posts Subject: SLOW Leopard? Especially James Devenish last reply.
The lack of RAM would be attributing to the slowness. Plus, older drives are significantly slower than current drives. But, it certainly sounds "sick" ... How old is this iMac, 2003 / 2004 model? Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 04/01/2010, at 10:21 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: > > Graham's iMac [PowerPC G5(3.0), 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM running Leopard] is still > connected to the Network but it is very slow and most sites won't load. > > Firefox is unable to load the iinet Home Page. It will load small pages like > the BOM Weather Forecast. > > Sometimes Safari will load the iinet Home Page straight after a restart but > it slows right down and sometimes doesn't quite make it, last time it > reported 116 items of 121 (1 error) and after about another 5 minutes I > stopped the download. If you quit and reopen it does not load. > > Collecting email (Eudora) is very slow. > > Other applications run normally but won't print. > > I repaired permissions and ran Disk Doctor but that has not helped. > > There is plenty of hard drive space 38.4 GB left out of 74.4 GB available. > > The Internet is connected as my G5 is not having problems so I swapped ports > on the router with Graham but that made no difference. > > I tried a new EtherNet lead, no difference. > > I just tried pinging my computer and the printer and got the message: > > PING 56 databytes > 36 bytes from nexthop.wa.iinet.net.au (203.59.14.16): Communication > prohibited by filter. > > When I ping in the opposite direction from my G5 I get times of ca 0.35 ms > for Graham's Computer and ca 3.27 ms for the Printer (printing from my > computer has become very slow too). > > Can someone explain what is happening. Graham's Firewall is set to allow > everything through. > > Any suggestions about what to do next will be very gratefully received. > > Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
