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joegildermusic
Apr 01, 2016Aspirant
Powerline 500 + Wifi slow download speed mac
I'm not a network/IT guy, but I love the idea of the Powerline series. I got mine set up on the other end of my house, running direct to my iMac via ethernet. I do a fair amount of upload video strea...
clithes
Apr 01, 2016Prodigy
If video streaming is working ok but Internet browsing is poor its more than likely a settings issue than a problem with the units.
What DNS servers are you using for the Wifi unit (which I presume is the unit your iMac is connecting to)?
- joegildermusicApr 04, 2016Aspirant
I'm not sure. when I log into mywifiext.net, I see that IP Address is set to "Get Dynamically from ISP"
I see the other option has fields for Primary and Seconday DNS but they're not being used/grayed out...
- joegildermusicApr 04, 2016Aspirant
If I look under System Prefs > Network on the iMac, and look up the Ethernet settings, I see one DNS server listed: 192.168.1.254
It also has attlocal.net under Search Domains:
Does that help at all?
- joegildermusicAug 09, 2016Aspirant
Never heard back on this and still having issues.