I'm in the process of building a new web server for our external website. I've built the server as a Windows 2008 Server - Standard Edition and enabled the Web Server Role. We've created a new site and loaded our web pages from our newly developed website. Everything works fine when we access the site from a Windows PC, no matter which browser we use.
However when we try to access the site from a Mac, regardless of the browser we use, the pages take several minutes to load, if they load at all. We've tried Safari, Firefox & Camino, all with the same result.
We've done a considerable amount of testing and have come to these conclusions:
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Text only pages load fine. Images, whether part of a page or loaded individually take minutes to load. Even an 18 KB .gif image takes 30 seconds to load.
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The same site loaded to a Windows 2003 server with IIS 6 loads fine on the Mac
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The same site loaded to a Windows Vista workstation running IIS 7 loads fine on the Mac
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We've tried different Macs with 10.4 and 10.5 OS versions with the same results
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We've disabled the Windows Firewall on the server - same results
Anyone have any ideas as to what's causing the problem or where I might look for answers? I've spent the last two days searching the internet with no applicable results.
Thanks in advance for your help.
9/11/2008 - 3:30 PM CDT - Some additional testing is showing extremely high NIC utilization, near 100%, when the page request comes from a Mac. We may have a hardware/driver issue.