slow wifi internet

How slow?

Open Network Utility in Applications>Utilities>Info tab, select Airport (en1 usually), & what is the Link Speed & are there any Errors/Collisions on the right?

What do you get for raw speeds here, for both Java & Flash, DSL Reports...

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

Great work! 🙂

80.58.86.58 is rima-tde.net, and returns no ping here either!

Try these DNS nimbers...

For 10.5/10.6, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

Click OK.

Also, turn off IPv6:

System Preferences » Network » AirPort » TCP/IP tab » Configure IPv6

Or whatever Interface you use.

There are several causes for WIFI slow down.

1- First check if your speed differs when connected to Ethernet ( Cable) . ( go to www.speedtest.net and make 3 speed tests with WIFI and 3 other with Ethernet, finally if their average differ more than 5% consider connection problems including:

1- You are far from the router or something is impeding the connection ( as microwave oven, a near lamp ,...)

2- A Wifi from one of your neighbours is on the same channel of you. you can find it as follows:

go to http://istumbler.net and download iStumbler99. now check if any STRING Wifi of your neighbours is on the same channel of you. if so, change your channel with optimally 3 channels far from that one.( weak channels are of least importance)

2- Find best DNS for your connection. there are 2 fine DNS finders: DNS Namebench ( from Google) and DNS Benchmark ( both are free). Find best DNSs and change them in your network preferences > Advanced >DNS

Nice to hear that. I was not sure how experienced you are but I see you can setup for some more advanced settings:

1- Set your wifi authentication to WPA2-Personal ( AES ) with a very strong password. If someone is using your network, you would see a slow down.

2-Set you modem 2.4 GHz to 802.11 b/g/n

3- channel to "Auto"

4- DHCP enabled

5- make sure only one NAT and one DHCP server is enabled on your network ( no other routers) also check by iStumbler if there is other network with the same name as you have selected.

6- Change channel width from standard ( 40 MHz) to 20 MHz. ( narrower channels cause less interference )

7- find best MTU. most PPoE networks work best on MTU=1492. You should BETTER change it both on router ( it must be somewhere in your internet interface ) as well as your laptop ( Network preferences >Advanced > Hardware tab : change configure from automatically to manually, and enter exactly the same MTU as you set for your router)

Finding best MTU is more an art. some guidelines are here but you should test and compare to find best. bigger MTU results in higher speed , but in congested ISPs or ISPs with packet loss, it has an adverse effect. lower MTUs are better for low quality networks. some guidelines are here:

MTU=

• 1500. The largest Ethernet packet size; it is also the default value. This is the typical setting for non-PPPoE, non-VPN connections. The default value for most routers, adapters and switches.

• 1492. The size PPPoE prefers.

• 1472. Maximum size to use for pinging. (Bigger packets are fragmented.)

• 1468. The size DHCP prefers.

• 1460. Usable by AOL if you don't have large email attachments, etc.

• 1430. The size VPN and PPTP prefer.

• 1400. Maximum size for AOL DSL.

• 576. Typical value to connect to dial-up ISP

Hope that helps !

Try switching off "photostream" in system preferences - icloud

The photostream service took 2/3 of my download capacity.

Best regards

Konstantin

I always use opendns but I never noticed about IPv6 and thanks a lot it really WORKED.

This is related to a poor quality upgrade by apple. Not our ISPs

So if there is a Tower next door this could be affecting my Mac?