My MacBook Pro works well at my primary location five days per week, but freezes up at my secondary location even on Word or other non-wifi dependent programs; what can I do?
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How about taking a look at Activity Monitor (in your Utilities folder) between the two locations. Look at CPU & Network. Is there anything different?
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Hi Dan, thank you, I've never opened the activity monitor, don't really know what I'm looking at. I am currently at "secondary location" on vacation so can't compare, but what should I be looking for? And of course I have the spinning beach ball freezing me here (I'm responding on I-pad
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What do you mean by "primary location" and "secondary location."
by George A.
What's different with your set ups at the two locations? What added peripherals are you using at each? Are you using a hardwired ethernet connection at either? When you say it freezes, is it locking up or are you getting beach balls? Are you using different programs?
by mayer
What happened between those two points? What are the differences in environments? Is your computer up to date?
by Aaron Bouchard
Thanks guys, As far as I know other than they're 100 miles apart, there's no different settings that I am aware of. There's different internet there but still wifi and of course the Word program is not wifi, I get the beach ball.What's more baffling is that it worked fine at both locations six months ago.
by fatherjm