Comments on: The most frustrating computer problem I have ever had

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:26:38 +0000

Try this info. It worked for me. Not sure if it fixes everything, but…

http://chroniclesofwynn.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/safari-internet-connection-problems-in-leopard/

By: solitare dark

solitare dark — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:11:50 +0000

ahhhhhh… i had proxies set for safari (uni network) and then uncheked them an now all is fine. bizzare as had used safari since appling proxies and it had worked… go figure!

By: solitare dark

solitare dark — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:59:08 +0000

I too have been having problems… I don’t have an internet connection at home yet so rely on ‘free wi-fi cafes’ and wireless connection at my university. All was working well until a few days ago and now cannot use safari at all (it says ‘server stoped responding’), itunes store will not load(timed out)and also software updates is now redundant. Have tried a few things but to no avail. It’s been two months since last post so has any one had any joy?

By: mushmouth

mushmouth — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:55:41 +0000

I have the same problem but I’m on dial up and not going through a router. Pages and images load in firefox but it takes a while, but safari won’t let it take a while, after it decides that it’s taken too long it just dumps the partial pics that it has loaded. I was hoping there was some setting i could change to not let it time out. Dial-up sucks but it is the only option where I am, and this is definitely a safari problem since other browsers seem to work fine.

By: Born Busy

Born Busy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:56:22 +0000

I was having the exact same problem and was scheduled to have my 2nd Genius Bar appointment tomorrow. But I got to thinking reading the comment from DS … since he/she narrowed it down to the router what was the setting most likely to be causing the issue … (drum roll) ... DHCP.

As soon as I disabled LAN DHCP in the router all the sites I had been blocked from accessing were visible in all browsers – Safari, Firefox and most important (for me) Parallels Firefox.

Originally, my DHCP setting was “Enable” with 1 week DHCP lease; though I’m sure now that I could enable with the “forever” setting. But as there is only one Macbook Pro on my network … no reason to re-enable LAN DHCP.

Hope this helps … Ron

By: DS

DS — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:20:45 +0000

I have narrowed down the issue to the router. Now I just need to figure out the setting that is causing the issue.

By: P Yates

P Yates — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:17:16 +0000

I have been having the same problem. I think I have narrowed the problem down to Parallels. If I load up Parallels and try to get on the internet wirelessly through windows then it works. I cannot get on using the regular mac OS. It works fine when I am connected to the internet through a hard wire. Not really sure what to do but I am going to the Apple Store tomorrow and will post if they let me know what is wrong

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By: Pat Brumfield

Pat Brumfield — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:40:57 +0000

I’ve been having the same problem with Safari. My remedy is to empty Safari’s cache and try again, which has been somewhat successful thus far. I haven’t had the issue with iTunes yet, although it seems like my day will come…