indyslim Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Hi, I have searched every forum posting regarding networking problems, and it seems like no one else has the problem that I do. When I boot up into OSX 10.5.2 (Zephyroth's AMD rev2) networking works fine. I get very fast transfer of file within the sub-net, VNC works fine, VPN no problem. However, after I surf the net for a while, and say play Yahoo chess or start a torrent download, the network speeds drop down to next to nothing. Few bytes/sec. That is it. I have tried everything that I know of - reseting the networking preferences, renew DHCP lease, go into terminal and play with ifconfig down/up. Nothing seems to work. I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly when the slow down occurs. But, mostly it seems to be when I have mutliple kinds of network traffic. Torrent + web, or web + flash games, or FTP + VNC. The only way to fix this right now is to reboot. Any help or pointers will be deeply appreciated. thanks Indy ----------- Dell E521 w/ nForce chipset Broadcom 4401, built in ethernet (with appropriate kexts for it) AMD 3800+ (2 GHz dual core) 3 Gb RAM 7300LE nVidia 256MB Single hard drive with only Leo 10.5.2 on it. The only other problem I have with this set up is Sleep/wake up, but that seems to be a problem for a lot of users. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97916-network-good-start-up-crawls-after-some-use/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
indyslim Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 I couldn't get any of the tricks to work. So, I pulled out an old ethernet card (Dlink 530TX+ Rev.D2) and plugged it in. Worked right out of the box. No drivers, no kexts etc. Lucky. Only problem is of course, it takes up the last PCI slot. (3 slots - one for video - 7300LE, one for firewire card). -I Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97916-network-good-start-up-crawls-after-some-use/#findComment-703285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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