[chc214]

My friend and I are unluckily having the same problems with broadband and our Powermac G4's (both are running OS 10.2).
She has DSL. With her Sony computer running Windows XP, the DSL connection seems to be fine and up to speed. But Safari and IE on her Powermac is painfully slow. Recently, I'm running into the same problem with my Adelphia Cable connection (Linksy's router). My Powerbook G3 works fine, but my Powermac browsers are super sluggish. Not all the time but often enough.
I can't think of why this is. Any suggestions or theories?
Thanks!

[chc214]

Another thing I notice is that when OS X is booting up it sort of stalls when it's time for Network Initialization, or something like that. This is when the connection is bad, other time it breezes through that whole part of boot where the box comes up at the end.

[doggdamac]

Check the start-up items folder in both Library >> Start-up items folders to be sure there is not an alias to a network server in them, which makes the system search for a network/server connection (other than your ISP's) before completing the initialization sequence and slows down boot time considerably, and it will periodically try to connect after the machine boots up and is in use, which will also slow down any other browsing apps too /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif