I have a user who is on an iMAC w/ S.L. 10.6.4. She was on wireless until I moved the wireless router into the boss’s office. I put her back on the wired network. Everything is just fine for local traffic, but when she tries to get out to the internet, there is a PAINFULLY slow delay while the computer connects. If I put her back on the wireless network (she wasn’t as far away from the WAP as I thought she’d be), internet access is back to almost instantaneous.
She is not the only one which exhibits this behavior…all the offices connected to the switch in the front end of the building seem to have this same behavior.
In another instance, a user who was NOT on wireless, and won’t be, was having the problem until I switched her over to the T1 line when access became instantaneous again.
I have two circuits: a T1 line and a cable modem line from the local ISP. The wireless routers are all designed to use the cable modem line as the gateway.
I thought it might be a problem with the switch up in the front of the building to which all those folks are connected, but if the T1 is working just fine, it’s not the switch, no?
The only thing I can think is that it’s something to do with either the router or the cable modem circuit, but MY machine (in the back of the building) uses that same circuit and there is no problem at all.
So…the problem seems to be this:
1. Wired computers in the front end of the building, all connected to the same switch, have a problem connecting to the internet (NOT the network) on our cable modem circuit. Switch them over to wireless and the problem goes away.
2. If I can’t switch them to wireless (too far from the WAP), I switch them to the T1 circuit and the problem goes away.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I’m sure it’s something really simple.
Thanks,
John Orban
System Administrator
The Country School
http://www.countryschool.org
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