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Slow / sporadic interface with iMac
Folks, I have a 1 year old iMac 24" with OS 10.11.5 operating system, hardwired to Netgear unmanged 16 port switch. I'm running a 100Mb backbone on this particular LAN branch back to switch (2 pair...
Hello rclemntrix,
Have you tried connecting the iMac straight to the switch where the RN316 is connected and check if it gets the same connection problem?
It could be the travel time that computer takes to reach the whole network to talk to LAN devices when it wakes up, so try isolating the problem first.
Regards,
Yup. As I explained above, that's how it is connected already. Remember, the jist of my issue is that iMac connectivity with the RN316 is miserable after it wakes after going to sleep. To have a usable connection MOST OF THE TIME, I have to reboot the iMac. After reboot, the connection is tolerable.
Hello rclementtx,
Can you try connecting the wireless capable machine wired to the switch where the NAS is and disable its wireless functionality then see the same performance?
Regards,
Jenn,
That's hard to do. MacBook Air is pretty much a wireless machine. I don't have adapters for LAN connection - and if I did, the connection would be at USB speed.
There are a couple of posts on other forums on OSX systems having very slow access when they wake up. Might be worth googling.
My take on the posts is that the OSX system tries to access the share before its network connection is back up - and then blocks i/o until it times out. But I don't use macs...
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