Q: mac osx 10.9 Mavericks wifi issue

It seems Apple are not going to fix or even acknowledge this as a problem any time soon.

  I have now reverted back to Windows based machines, they are just more reliable !!!!!, it might sound odd but its a good job I experienced this issue when I did, as the company I work for was considering migrating to Apple O/S from Windows , but seeing first hand the lack of support from Apple it looks like we had a lucky escape.

regards

Nick

When Apple products work as advertised I love them so much. They're so polished and usually do exactly what I expect them to.............then Jobs died. I'm considering migrating my personal machines back to Windows as well

I am not defending Apple on this one but if you are going to windows because of this problem it's like trading in a new car that needs a recall in on a perenial lemon. After the debalces called Vista and XP I never looked back.

My 5 year old Mac Book out performed my best you can buy HP   XP windows by a long shot. 

The difference being that I was always able to hack Windows into working condition and swap out hardware when needed. That's why. Yes windows has plenty of problems, I've just always been able to get around them. I never had fundamental flaws like wifi not working and if I had hardware issues I could usually fix them on my own. With Apple I feel like I'm at their mercy for nearly everything and not just over this one issue. Mavericks has been an issue in many areas on my work machine. VPN issues, WIFI issues, email issues, you name it. All stuff that was working fine pre-mavericks. If this stuff was happening in windows I almost always had alternatives. even the dreaded missing start button in windows 8 was easy to resurrect. Dual booting Windows with Ubuntu gave me a machine that did almost anything I ever needed. I love how much less configuration and hassle I have to do with Apple products but at least with windows that hassle usually ended with a working setup one way or another, rather than me twiddling my thumbs waiting for Microsoft.

It's all subjective. I'm just sad about these issues. I was so excited to get this thing.

I understand the  ease of being to hack stuff. Frankly I am afraid of upgrading anything outside of Mavs or add on anything new. I am even rejecting adobe updates for fear of having the thing crash on me. Right now I got it going and the worst that happens is after waking up the bars go up and down up and down (10' from AE) then the dreaded ! in wireless box and so far magic it starts working. I am not droppoing signals like some. THe irony is I rebuilt my old white 2008 Book with a new SSD, 4 gigs of ram , a new wireless card and a clean new install off a disk of Snow Leopard and the thing smokes. Wireless range is not as good as the new Air but I have a an old airport express I can plug in that is sitting at the other end of the house or maybe I willl pick up a usb range extender. 10.8..6 works pretty darn good. Even extended battery life but nothing touches the 12 hours I am getting on the Air. I think they will fix Mavs but how when.

A couple other things to try before completely abandoning Apple and Mavericks:

1. Try different orientations for the laptop with respect to the Wifi router (facing towards, sideways, facing away). Also experiment with being within line of sight of the router.

2. Try using the wipe/recovery method (hold down Apple-R during reboot to access the menu, and be sure to erase the Macintosh HD partition using disk utility before beginning the reinstall, or all your files and settings will be saved).

3. Try the script posted earlier.

4. Try the PingFixer App https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id808479246?mt=12 (Seems to be working for some people.)

I recently developed this problem on my Macbook pro. Many times a day the wifi would just disconnect. It is now working perfectly. Here's what I tried in order. I have a suspicion that the "location" bit is where the problem lies but I'm not sure how or why.

1.     In the network system preferences, select the "edit locations"  option from the location drop down.

2.     Duplicate the location with a new name.

3.     Delete ALL other locations.

4.     For good measure I repaired permissions, zapped the pram and restarted.

5.     I set my router to the default channel for the router ( 6 in my case, it was 1 ).

I have now had 3 days of operation without wifi loss and downloaded over 60GB of music from my iTunes match collection in that time. Seems like a pretty good test.

I have had a similar problems ( pre-Mavericks ) before and it always seems to be the locations getting somehow corrupted/failing that is at the root. I don't believe it is the router as all my other devices ( iMac/iPhone/iPad ) have had zero problems during this time.

Anyway, hope this helps someone.

I bought a retina MBP Haswell in Nov. and have had the 'loss of wifi upon wake' problem.  I've reported to Apple, posted on the forums, called Applecare, got a hold of Apple's wifi unit (you have to ask AppleCare to transfer you) reported it on the developer site, sent them a wifi diagostic file and emailed Tim Cook.

I've tried many suggestions.

A week ago someone said 'reset the PRAM', that is reboot with command option P R all held down.  Wait for the a couple of 'bong' cycles.  Don't know why I hadn't thought it that.

I did and for a week, no problem.  I even turned bluetooth back on (one of the suggestions sadi turn it off and it seemed to work for awhile...till it didn't any more...)

So far, with BT on, still no problem.

Try resetting the PRAM.

I bought a retina MBP Haswell in Nov. and have had the 'loss of wifi upon wake' problem.  I've reported to Apple, posted on the forums, called Applecare, got a hold of Apple's wifi unit (you have to ask AppleCare to transfer you) reported it on the developer site, sent them a wifi diagostic file and emailed Tim Cook.

I've tried many suggestions.

A week ago someone said 'reset the PRAM', that is reboot with command option P R all held down.  Wait for the a couple of 'bong' cycles.  Don't know why I hadn't thought it that.

I did and for a week, no problem.  I even turned bluetooth back on (one of the suggestions sadi turn it off and it seemed to work for awhile...till it didn't any more...)

So far, with BT on, still no problem.

Try resetting the PRAM.

Interesting. I've reset the PRAM 3 times and I too have the new haswell machine. Nothing has done anything to help except disabling Bluetooth which so far has worked reliably every time. I guess I'll try resetting it a time or two more and see what happens.

If everyboyd with apple care took there machines to the Genius Bar and said I only want it back when it works I think things would change fast. But that is easy for me to say cause my new Air is working.

Some of us use these machines for work and that is not an option.

Of course. I know it is not a good option. I use mine for my business and now that I have my old 2008 white book rebuilt I have a back. So I am lucky. Somehow if this hit the mainstream press that Apple has dropped it on Mavs I got a feeling it would be a faster fix.

Sadly not enough people are affected, or at least not enough of them raising a stink. This thread would need to spiral way more out of control before Apple will really notice, even more so for the mainstream media to notice.

This board is only a fraction of those affected. Remember lots of people out there do not belong to lists like this one. And I go to other threads on this forum and see Mavs is causeing other problems. And then there is the unoffical apple forum with lots of people talking there.