Super slow wifi on my Mac Mini - any suggestions

[JPK]

I restarted wireless router, cable modemand Mac Mini. No help.

MacBook Pro and Dell Mini Hack are brisk in speed.

Thanks,
JPK

[hotdogthemovie]

Are you sure it's connected to the same wifi network at the MBP? If there are other networks available in your area, it may be connected to a different, slower router.

[DRR]

How do you know it's slower? Are you watching throughput or just eyeballing page loads?

[silvarios]

Is this a new mini? Refurb? Did you pop open the case to upgrade anything? Maybe the Airport antenna is loose? Is the Mac mini in a different location than the other two systems? Maybe there is interference?


Nathan

[wowzer]

Are you trying the laptops in the same area as the mini? Sometimes interference can cause havoc with wifi...particularly near wireless phones, microwaves, power sources, etc.

[wowzer]

One other thought came to mind...are you getting interference in channels? In my house, I see about 6 networks, as there are a ton of wifi around me. My wireless goes kaput when there are lots of folks using wifi at the same time as me. I'm so tempted to use Kismac to crack their wep/wpa and use their wifi and turn mine off! ;-)

[JPK]

This was a "new" mini.

I did open it up to put more ram in it. It has only been slow for the last week or two.

It is connected to the same network as my MBP.

My gage is my eyeball. Is takes a fraction of a second to load a page on my MBP or Dell, but it may take 10 seconds, 20 seconds or more to load the same page on Mac Mini.

I am writing this on my MBP just 6 feet from the mini now. No problems.

JPK

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JPK wrote:
This was a "new" mini.

I did open it up to put more ram in it. It has only been slow for the last week or two.

Open it up again and fix the antenna connection.

[kj4btkljv]

Possible to run a CAT5 network cable to it from the router? That would fix it all, right there.

Jeff

[space-time]

wowzer wrote:
One other thought came to mind...are you getting interference in channels? In my house, I see about 6 networks, as there are a ton of wifi around me. My wireless goes kaput when there are lots of folks using wifi at the same time as me. I'm so tempted to use Kismac to crack their wep/wpa and use their wifi and turn mine off! ;-)

I don't think you can crack WPA. Also, I tried once the crack a WEP just for fun and (yes, it was MY WEP, I had a second router) and Kismac kissed my butt, could not figure out anything.