Slow internet / DNS problems on OSX Leopard
My girlfriend's Macbook has yet to be updated to Snow Leopard (hey, I'll get round to it), so recently when it started loading web pages incredibly slowly, my first instinct was to update it. However, I then figured that wasn't the best solution and I spent a few hours surfing the web.
I'll spare you the details, in the end I could find no fault. Updates were in order, Airport was working, speed was fine on other routers. It even connected to Skype and MSN fine. It turned out to be a DNS issue - I just have no idea why. By making OSX use OpenDNS instead of my ISP's we seem to have fixed the issue.
So if you having similar problems, try this.
- Go to System Preferences --> Network --> (Airport) Advanced --> DNS tab
- When here, click the "+" symbol at the bottom of the page to add a manual DNS.
- Enter the OpenDNS IP 208.67.222.222
- Click "Ok" and "Apply".
Restart, to be safe. This fixed things for us. The OpenDNS IP should redirect to the closest relay to your location, ie. Europe, the US etc.. Now, if only someone can tell me why this suddenly messes up in the first place?! My Snow Leopard Macbook still works great!
