10.5.6 causing terribly slow Internet access
1) I have wiped clean my iMac and reinstalled everything fresh, no restored data and everything was as quick as it had ever been up to 10.5.5, installing 10.5.6 either by 5.5>5.6 patch or the entire combo update has caused many internet enabled applications to take a painfully long time to load information.
2) One of my friends supporting a university Mac OS (etc) network has said that this same issue has been reported on about 190 of his machines.
My DNS is cached locally on the router and is used by my PS3, 360, iPod Touch, PSP, DS, Windows XP machine & iBook (10.3.x), the only two devices with any problems at all are the two 2008/iMacs and only when they run 10.5.6.
So, getting that out of the way has anyone got any news about this? Has anyone found a solution that does not lay blame entirely on the DNS server?
The two prime examples would probably best be Safari 3 had gone from loading pages with ease to the connecting phase for several seconds to upwards of a minute before a page even starts to load, on other occasions loading about 70% of a page and the last 30 taking a good while to complete. This is also true of Safari 4 beta.
I use dashboard a lot, I use the weather widgets every morning before I go to work and under 10.5.5 or below the access time was from immediate to 2 seconds maximum. I am now waiting 20 seconds or double every time I load DB up to check.
There were other examples but I fear this is long enough as it is. Any information would be appreciated as I finally caved in and updated my girlfriends iMac because I was not happy leaving it on old security updates for so long. She is not at all pleased.
We have two times:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version: 1.29f1
Mac OS X (10.5.6)