Internet Surfing slow compared to PC

[delboydavid]

Hi all,

I have a problem on our mac which I hope someone will be able to point me in the right direction to resolve. We have a 2.0GHz macbook Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger

The internet has become very slow using safari, particularly https sites, sometimes even locking up compared to surfing the same sites on a windows XP PC.

We have a wireless network which I connect the company PC as well as our own macbook. For 6 months since we have had the mac, everything has worked fine, but recently we have noticed a significant slow down and hanging when on the internet using safari on the macbook. Surfing the same web pages on the PC is fine.

Have we picked up a virus or something?

Any help appreciated.

 

[Ric]

Hi there and welcome !

Try downloading Firefox for the Mac and see if that helps...

I like using Safari but it does tend to have a few memory leaks...and slow down over time. Normally quitting and reopening can speed it up.

Now that Apple have re-ignited the browser wars by making a Windows version of Safari I am sure that it will get 'speeded up'.

You can download the new 'beta' version of Safari...that may help.

Have you also tried cleaning the Safari caches...doing a Safari reset ?

Regards

Ric

 

[delboydavid]

Hi Ric.

Thanks for your reply. Since posting this on the forum, I have found the following "fix" which looks promising:

Go to System Preferences-->Network-->Airport-->TCP/IP-->DNS Servers change this to 4.2.2.2

Then go to Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal and type in
Code:
lookupd -flushcache

I'll give this a try later.

Thanks again,
Del

 

[delboydavid]

The above did not work. I've emptied cache. Reset safari etc etc. Same problem.

So I downloaded and installed Safari 3beta which has done the trick...

Thanks Ric for the advice and link.

Del

 

[delboydavid]

Argh! Problem is back. Pages take an age to load on the mac (safari) compared to surfing on a PC (explorer). Mainly https pages or where a form is filled in e.g when logging in.

I've emptied the cache and reset safari, trashed preferences, trashed icons folder but it makes no difference.

Can anyone help please?