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Showing posts with label wifi. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

WIFI slowness of my Macbook Pro

My Macbook Pro (2007 edition)'s WIFI turned to be very slow recently. Speed test (http://www.speedtest.net) sometime report only 10K download while I have 15M Comcast broadband.
I struggled many days and tried different ways I could imagine, even bough a new router, problem still unresolved.

Today, I tried to check /var/log/system.log and found lots of error messages like:

Feb 9 01:10:06 li-mac-2 mDNSResponder[22]: AppendDNSNameString: Illegal empty label in name "."
Feb 9 01:10:06 li-mac-2 mDNSResponder[22]: RegisterSplitDNS: bad domain .


Then I Googled the keywords:mDNSResponder[22]: RegisterSplitDNS: bad domain . and found a hint at:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6911574


Followed suggestion from the site, I finally managed to resolve my issue. Since the DNS error msg is gone, my MacBook Pro could do 14Mbps on wifi.

Here's summary of what I did:
1. run scutil --dns and saw something like:

DNS configuration

resolver #1
nameserver[0] : 192.168.0.1
order : 200000

resolver #2
domain : .
options : pdns
timeout : 5
order : 150000

resolver #3
domain : local
options : mdns
timeout : 2
order : 300000
...


2. Open Keychain Access
3. Click on System at left side
4. Find and delete item named DNS Key
5. Reboot
6. Problem resolved!