File downloaded from IIS6/Win2003 server to a Mac (and not PCs) is incredibly slow
- by Simon Swords
We have a test zip file on our customers server that we host for him that when downloading to a Mac is incredibly slow.
On a Mac - trying the download via Safari 5.0.3 and Chrome 8.0.552.231 results in a quick burst of normal download speed then plummets to almost no speed at all after 1 or 2 meg (between 1 and 5 Kb/s - yes, KiloBITS per second! According to the network monitor).
Downloading via Windows was fine and speedy. Tested via;
IE7 7.0.5730.13 and Chrome Portable 8.0.552.224 On Windows XP Pro, and;
IE8 8.0.7600.16385 in a Windows 7 virtual machine running via VirtualBox 4.0.0 r69151 on the same Mac mention above
Google hasn't helped us out on this occasion, possibly because the search terms I'm having to use are quite generic. Has anybody ever experienced this and if so how do we fix it?
Thanks in advance