Internet speed problems on different devices

Sorry nothing I type is being accepted.

Yosemite is a problem ..

Did you clean install or upgrade?

I want you to get rid of the iphone working as a hot spot.. that isn't helping.. turn it off.

Did it work ok on Mavericks? Is this problem since upgrading OS?

I cannot post .. I have typed the stuff out 20 times and it is rejected.

Email me direct.. my profile has my email open.

Tracking down the cause of slow wireless can be a huge pain.

I do need to know a few things..

1. When you measure the speed are you ensuring nothing else is using bandwidth?

Wireless is a shared media.. that means all devices on wireless will cause a slow down, whether they use bandwidth or not but clearly you are sharing it with multiple device it must be measured with everything else turn OFF. Not standby.. OFF.

2. What modem do you have supplied by TalkTalk and is it functioning as router? Is it also wireless router? Can you please turn on the talktalk wireless if available and do measurement to that as well.

3. What link speeds do you get on each device and what band are they connecting to? Can you please change the wireless names so you can force the connection to 2.4ghz or 5ghz.. eg name is TC24ghz and TC5ghz .. also you must use WPA2 Personal security.. nothing else is going to give you peak speed. The password should also match name, meaning short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. names 10 characters or less.. passwords 8 characters or more.

4. Your computer speeds seem ok.. 65-69Mbps for a 76Mbps connection is what I would expect. You would also expect the older mac to be a bit slower since it has lower end wireless card.. so 50Mbps is ok for that.

5. To get high speed you must join the 5ghz band not 2.4ghz and the poor old ipad 2 might not manage it.

Give me the link speed the wireless actually is joining. eg this is easy in the Mac. This is a bit ancient screenshot but you hold down the option key when you click the wifi symbol.. it then pops up a heap more info.. I need this info.

For your iOS stuff it is less easy.. let me see what you use to get that info.

Fill me in and we can work away from there.

I have typed important info.. I cannot reply .. everytime I try it is rejected..

Roll your cursor over my name in the post.. my email is there.. talk to me direct.. otherwise I will get someone else to answer.

Yes, I have replied.

I posted this to see if it would.. seems ok.. as soon as put something it doesn't like into the mix it goes haywire.

BTW to anyone else reading..

Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.

Factory reset universal

Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.

N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.

Setup the TC again.

Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.

1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.

eg TCgen5 for basestation and and TCwifi wireless name.

If the issue is wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round. ie plan on a first and second round of changes to fix this.. hopefully.. I will point out other steps that can be round2.

2. Use all passwords that also comply with 1. but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.

3. If the TC is main router you can skip this point. This is only an issue when the TC is bridged.

Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking.

4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.

5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.

In Finder, Go, Connect to server from the top menu,

Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).

You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.

However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.

6. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only. Do the same for ethernet if you use it.

There is a lot more jiggery pokery you can try but the above is a good start.. if you find it still unreliable.. don't be surprised.

You might need to do some more work on the computer itself. eg Reset the PRAM.. has helped some people. Clean install of the OS is also helpful if you upgrade installed.

Tell us how you go.

Someone posted a solution.. See this thread.

Macbook can't find Time Capsule anymore

Start from the bottom and work up.. I have a list of good network practice changes but I have avoided Yosemites bug heaven.

Yosemite has serious DNS bug in the networking application.. here is the lets say more arcane method of fixing it by doing a network transplant from mavericks.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

When you get iphones and yosemite together some very strange stuff can start to happen.

Problems in wireless with yosemite.

AWDL

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6693499

http://help.apple.com/deployment/ios/#/apd8fc751f59

Apple is trying to make the computer and the phones talk to each other directly in a peer to peer network that has to do with the hand off stuff.. That is why the DNS was changed I think.. it hasn't been a great success.

Delete all your wifi network names and start over; do two things

1- go into airport utility and uncheck that 5 GHz network

2- name your new wifi network a shortish name with NO spaces in it , you can combine two names if you desire

Then since you've unchecked that 5 GHz network the router will be able to negotiate the FASTEST speed to choose and it will mostly be 5 GHz. It does not choose the most reliable just the fastest. You tx rate will tend much higher.

Do not ignore that simplified wifi name either.

btw once you rename that wifi make sure you check all your Macs, iOS device and ATVs.

This is not posting ... man I wish apple could fix up their website..