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Title: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Top Cat on August 23, 2012, 05:09:23 pm

I haz a Macintosh,  came home today  and it would not load any internet pages. Emails still working fine.  :chicken: So did the usual and rang India complaining about BT. Turns out my connection is working fine, so while waiting to be transferred to some one trained on Mac i thought i would switch it off ( Japenes restart ) and it was working again before the guy came back on line.
Just did something else for an hour, went to go back on tinternet and the same has happened. Obviously working now after another off and back on, but there is some sort of fault.
Normally runs like a Rolls Royce, and i dont even know were to look to try and trace the problem. Looked in system prefs and all there is for tinternet is auto connected which showed connected.  :fighting2:

Anyone any ideas.  :drinking:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: edd666999 on August 23, 2012, 05:13:09 pm

When you cant connect, check the lights on your router see if they are normal

Try a different browser.

Do you have any security installed on your mac?

Are you wirelessly connected to the router or eithernet cable?

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Top Cat on August 23, 2012, 05:20:19 pm

Quote from: edd666999 on August 23, 2012, 05:13:09 pm

When you cant connect, check the lights on your router see if they are normal  All lights ok on hub.

Try a different browser.

Do you have any security installed on your mac?  No.

Are you wirelessly connected to the router or eithernet cable? tried both, emails still working so guessing it is not the wireless connection.

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Hedge on August 23, 2012, 05:30:36 pm

Sorry Mr Cat but the temptation is too much.  :P

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2Fi%2Fbto%2F20090726%2Fwindows7-home-premium.jpg&hash=411db1340bf2eaa8735b5725593ebb3042a4f36d)

 :innocent:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: galaxie500 on August 23, 2012, 05:33:56 pm

Pull the power from the router for 5 minutes; so much traffic going through it needs a kickstart.
Get Little Snitch - programme that shows how much data is being sent to and from your machine.  Its frightening how much stuff is being sent and from uyour computer!  Little Snitch allows you to block certain companies without resorting to firewall changes.

Thank goodness, Mac's still don't crash nearly as often as the other machines out there.......Mr Hedge!

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: rich83 on August 23, 2012, 05:34:31 pm

I would rather stick wasps up my ass hedge....  :innocent:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Hedge on August 23, 2012, 05:37:46 pm

Ooh I'd like to see that Rich.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: rich83 on August 23, 2012, 05:38:54 pm

I bet you would...    :scared:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Top Cat on August 23, 2012, 05:39:24 pm

Quote from: galaxie500 on August 23, 2012, 05:33:56 pm

Pull the power from the router for 5 minutes; so much traffic going through it needs a kickstart.
Get Little Snitch - programme that shows how much data is being sent to and from your machine.  Its frightening how much stuff is being sent and from uyour computer!  Little Snitch allows you to block certain companies without resorting to firewall changes.

Thank goodness, Mac's still don't crash nearly as often as the other machines out there.......Mr Hedge!

The router is working fine, i have reset and switched it off, this was confirmed by switching the mac off and it worked when i put it back on.

My Mac has only ever crashed once so i am certainly not complaining about it. My suspicions are safari, but i dont know how to check it for faults though. Does it store logs or glitches.  :happy2:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: bacillus on August 23, 2012, 05:44:03 pm

I suspect BT are having "DNS server not responding issues" atm...

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Top Cat on August 23, 2012, 05:45:12 pm

Quote from: bacillus on August 23, 2012, 05:44:03 pm

I suspect BT are having "DNS server not responding issues" atm...

So why were my emails coming through fine.  :popcornsoda:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: Hedge on August 23, 2012, 06:03:18 pm

BT email runs on Yahoo which may explain why.  :smiley:

Title: Re: Mac and internet problem.
Post by: edd666999 on August 23, 2012, 06:20:33 pm

under system preferences and network then dns

add the following dns servers in:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220