It appears I owe AT&T an apology, I still can't figure out why my neighbors on three sides can get their fiber optic service but I am "
out of range" by 1,000 feet, but the slowdown was not their problem. I saw a post on the Apple site that got me to thinking. So I shut off sync, which was running almost constantly, and Time Machine that was backing up to the new Time Capsule router. Instantly I was back up to 24 ms ping and 5+ Mbps download speed.
So based I...
- opened System Preferences > MobileMe > Sync > Advanced and de-registered my iMac
- opened iSync > Preferences > Reset Synch History
- opened System Preferences > MobileMe > Sync > Advanced and re-registered my iMac
- Reset all the sync preferences to Automatic and forced a sync from my iMac to MobileMe replacing the data on MobileMe
This new sync took only a few minutes compared to the L O N G syncs that had been going on. Best of all I am back to reliably getting 5+ Mbps download speeds.
My apologies to AT&T for all my muttering about them under my breath, but at least, after all the switching around,
etc. I wound up with a new 2TB Time Capsule and its dual channel capability has enormously simplified my old network configuration that was complicated by running a 5GHz network on an Airport Extreme Base station for the computers and in order to support our iPhones and AppleTV a 2.4GHZ network on an Airport Express and as a bonus I ended up with extra Airport Expresses I am now using to extend both networks to provide five bars at the far end of the house.
