Will Yurman

Q: Slow Wifi on imac

Hi,

Anyone have any ideas why our iMac, running 10.6.8 would suddenly have very slow WiFi, when other devices in the house are working fine? It's been an intermittent problem for months, that suddenly seems worse.

Other devices, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iphones, ipad all work fine. But the iMac is very slow - even when all in the same location and proximity to our Airport router.

 

The RSSI for the iMac is -79

Transmit Rate fluctuates from the high 30's to the 50's

I typically get a full four bars for the signal strength

 

I ran a bandwith test on the iMac and got:

Date and timeHostname / IPDown
kbit/s
Up
kbit/s
Ping
min(ms)
Stability
%
05.07 18:04-.hsd1.pa.comcast.net203130355,061,8

 

rebooting either the router or the computer sometimes helps temporarily, but again, other devices continue to work without a hitch.

 

Can the Wifi card in the computer be the problem?  any other suggestion?

 

many thanks,

Will

iMac G4 800MHz, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Jul 5, 2013 9:16 AM

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