Recent content by zaxcom

As I stated before, the only cure seems to be getting a modem that does not use the Broadcom chipset. The Motorola 5120 uses a TI set, and it works perfectly with my Macs.

Got the 5120 today, hooked it up and was running at full speed. I am reaching my upload and download caps. I think this shows that the Broadcom based modems do not work well with Macs, but the TI based ones do. I am a happy puppy.

I am taking a chance. I saw that NewEgg has the Moto 5120 on sale for $49. Wanting to use a more modern and DOCSIS 2.0 modem, I ordered one. It should get to me tomorrow and I will post my results. If it does not work I have a month to send it back to NewEgg.

The windows machine was fine, Only the Macs showed the difference.

Well its almost a full fix, but not really. I went down to Time Warner and picked up a brand new modem. Its an Ambit, much smaller than my 4 year old Ambit. This new Ambit uses the same Broadcom chip set as the Motorola. Brought it home and ran several speed tests on several sites. With my old...

Are these new speeds being seen only Comcast or on other systems now that Apple made the fix. I am hestitant to go over to Time Warners office and get one of the newer modems for fear it may still not work, and I may not be able to get my old modem back again.

I will give it a try tonight. thx.

So how do I go about flushing the ARP table on the G5? As for the router all I can do is restart it, there is no command to flush the table.

The connection is by ethernet not by wireless. I am not filtering any MAC address's. All machines on my LAN use static IP's.

This is coming from my router(10.20.1.1) 10.20.1.2 is my G5. Along with that there are three other computers and 2 VOIP adapters on my network, but only my G5 seems to be having this issue with the router.

My router keeps reporting this in the log. What does it mean. Can I fix this? [WARN] Mon Sep 18 18:36:33 2006 Packet Dropped waiting to resolve MAC for IP 10.20.1.2 [WARN] Mon Sep 18 16:59:47 2006 Packet Dropped waiting to resolve MAC for IP 10.20.1.2 [WARN] Mon Sep 18 15:29:48 2006...

Well I think I have found the answer. After lots of searching and reading I took a look at my hostconfig file, and I found that it was missing several lines of data when I compared it to another file on another MAC. In fact it only had about 6 lines of text. So I copied the file from the other...

I am having a strange problem with DNS lookups. My router is a Trendnet TEW-611, it has a built in DNS Relay. So that means all I should have to do is set the IP of my router as my DNS server. Yet when I do this DNS lookups are very slow, where if I put the DNS address's of my ISP directly in...

Problem solved. Went back to an old AMBIT modem and my speeds were back to normal. The new chip set for DOCSIS 2.0 in the Motorola 5101 and the new AMBIT modem is not compatible with Mac computers.

Thanks, but I already went thru all possible combinations of duplex and speed. It had no effect on the problem.