Finder took 10 minutes to load while DSL was down!
Just thought I'd share:
I have Dynamic DSL over a Westel 2200 with a DHCP Server providing two IP addresses. (not PPoE)
I booted up in OSX 3.7 yesterday, and got nothing but the dock and a few icons at the upper right. After a fair amount of frustration I discovered the finder would eventually load after 10 minutes and perhaps a little tickling of menus. I tried on a fresh install of Panther 10.3 and experience much the same, with less delay due to the lack of start up apps. Everything I did was painfully slow- essentially the computer was useless.
So as it turns out DSL was down, and turning off the ethernet port sufficed until I got back a signal. Too bad Verizon didn't know to suggest that.
This makes me think of the OS8 days when setting TCP/IP to DCHP, and not connecting to a DHCP server would hang the computer on regular intervals while it sought a port.
But if it had a good IP license from the router, you'd think I could have used the remainder of network services without interference!
But perhaps the Westell is not quite a proper router.
And I need a cable modem. \
I have Dynamic DSL over a Westel 2200 with a DHCP Server providing two IP addresses. (not PPoE)
I booted up in OSX 3.7 yesterday, and got nothing but the dock and a few icons at the upper right. After a fair amount of frustration I discovered the finder would eventually load after 10 minutes and perhaps a little tickling of menus. I tried on a fresh install of Panther 10.3 and experience much the same, with less delay due to the lack of start up apps. Everything I did was painfully slow- essentially the computer was useless.
So as it turns out DSL was down, and turning off the ethernet port sufficed until I got back a signal. Too bad Verizon didn't know to suggest that.
This makes me think of the OS8 days when setting TCP/IP to DCHP, and not connecting to a DHCP server would hang the computer on regular intervals while it sought a port.
But if it had a good IP license from the router, you'd think I could have used the remainder of network services without interference!
But perhaps the Westell is not quite a proper router.
And I need a cable modem. \
Comments
If you have a number of machines connected (like I do at home) then make sure the ip is higher in the subnet range.
eg. if you router is 192.168.1.1 and subnet is 255.255.255.0 the make your ip 192.168.1.10
This works fine on most hoem installations I do.
Dobby.
Edit. This wil ensure the machine boots straight away even if the router/dsl is off.
Originally posted by Scott
You didn't happen to have some network mounted disks did you?
Nope. And it did the same with a test of a freshly installed OSX3 on another drive with no startups, etc. I was tempted to boot the Jag Mac and see how it responded, but how much time could I waste playing detective?
Originally posted by Dobby
give yourself the ip address that your router/dsl connection normally gives you
Good Idea, as it will be a PAIN to have to do it AFTER symptoms present themselves again.
It didn't help that my Palm stopped syncing the day before, and I was already tearing things apart for that problem. Got to the bottom of that too, but home many Mac/Sony Clie users ARE out there to care?
Brrrrrrrrr - internet withdrawal.
I was ready to run out and buy an airport card and hope to snag a neighbor's signal (isn't it funny how wireless routers OTHER than Airport come preset with no password so they give out access to the world?).
Originally posted by Relic
Get a different Finder Apples sucks big donkey dick, "There isn't one!", nevermind you're screwed.
Anything is better than windoze, as sadly, I'm off to work on a PC at a client.
Let's see, it only took four IT guys and three days to install a plug-in I needed on THAT system.
The work around to that problem was trick it like it was a Mac. That left the last IT guy scratching his head, but I yelled "It's working. GO AWAY!"
Originally posted by Jellytussle
One thing that happens on login is that the Finder attempts to resolve the IP address of idisk.mac.com. This really bogs down logins that cannot do this, not 10 minutes but perhaps 20-30 seconds. If i have to set up a lab with no no external network access then i spoof this address on a local DNS.
I wonder if that couldn't be fixed using a hosts file or a Netinfo equivilent? In any case, I have had this happen to me too when my cable modem was down.