Q: MacBook Pro constantly losing wireless connectivity

Why is it so inconsistant? I had to reset my Airport about every 2 minutes through most of the day. Now I'm having almost no trouble at all.

Is there any solution for this? i am sick of restarting my MBP over again and again.

Hi everyone!

I would just like to update all of you on the WiFi situation for me.

I still don't know what's causing the problem, but I'm now 100 % sure the it arises from using my MBP in different locations. Last time I was struggeling with this, I did the resets and then, without any network connection up, creating a new "location" or profile for network access called "home" where I only enabled the WiFi (AriPort), and this seemed to work at the time.

Now, a couple of weeks/months later, it's still working flawlessly. I use the "automatic" profile at work, and the "home" at home, never letting the two cross paths. In this way, all this bull**** with wrong country code, and all other connection issues have gone away. I tried using the "home" profile at work once, and presto, connection issues at home again!

I have now idea why this would be an issue, why the Automatic profile woud save/store errorus information when moving from one location to another, though this eliminates the chance for a neighbour haveing an imported router or any other external input. For me, this is a software based problem, clean and simple. The fact that I have instant WiFi access all-day, everyday, at home and at work just by separating the two connections from oneanother tells me that the problem is NOT with my router at home, it is with the MBP interpretation of its wereabouts! Hence, the MBP does work flawlessly with the DIR-655, as long as you have a separate location for the router connection.

Best regards

// Gustaf

Why doesn't this affect Airtunes? I can play (for the most part) uninterrupted music all day.

Guys

The only way to solve this problem, Apple insists that the mind is to buy an airport (AppleWireless Router).

paulo rafael wrote:

 

The only way to solve this problem, Apple insists that the mind is to buy an airport (AppleWireless Router).

Where did you receive this "advice?"

Apple may advise the purchase of an AirPort router, but they certainly don't require one for correct operation.

Dear,

I work in a video producer, we have several here in the Macbooks.

I've done all these tests and none resolved.

The only solution I found was to buy an Apple wireless router (airport extreme base)

Apple has suffered much because of this process. It forces you to buy it from her.

When a macbook will connect with an access point it automatically discovers the acess point isApple's, if not, the speed is automatically downloaded.

This can happen at any time, but one thing is certain. An hour will give trouble.

You see, the first post is dated since 2008, today we encounter difficulties with it. In other words,Apple pretends that nothing happens.

I'm having similar problems with my wife's MacBook (not MBP). My Win7 laptop and both our iPhones and ATV2 all connect to our NetGear DGN2000 fine but the MacBook keeps forgetting the WPA2 password and auto-connecting to a different open network on the neighbour's router, and when we reconnect to ours, it claims the password is wrong half the time only to re-establish the connection fine automatically a few minutes later.

I'm going to try setting up a non-automatic profile but it's massively annoying and there's no way I'm buying an Apple Access Point to solve it. I'd rather dump the Mac and buy her a windows laptop, as lovely as the hardware is.

p.s. I just googled for this problem and saw that the original post was 2008 and was about to try another result assuming I was looking at a different issue... then I realised the thread was 76 pages. Wow.

I have the same problem, and it started from day 1, my macbook pro is now 4 days old!

Hi Kevin

It might be that AirTunes is using you LAN and not the actuall internet access. In this way you can connect to your "music-server" within your network as an open-access server but not get connected to the internet.

I have a media server at home, this works within my home network, this way I can unplugg my ethernet cable from my router and still enjoy my media files wirelessly within my own network..

Best regards and pardon my poor english

Hi Choddo

Yeah, it is realy frustrating. Not only becaus you payed top-dollar for a product way more expensive than a ordinary laptop but still experience the most basic connection issues....

Don't forget to "flush" you settings for the home network, try not to leave any trace of the non-functional connection before you make a clean "location" to be used ONLY at home (this includes the password). I'm not promising that this will fix the issues you're having, but I can garantee that it worked and continues to work for me.

I don't now if you checked you logs while trying to connect? The problem for me was not that the MBP forgot the WPA2 password, if you check the keychain you will most likely have the password stored there. The issue was that the MBP refused to accept my router as being swedish, it kept insisting that we/or the router where somwhere else in the world with no legit country code and therefore would not accept the router as a legit accespoint.

I hope it works for you as well, eventhough it is annoying it atleast works so you don't have to trash the computer. I haven't dared tring to use the ethernet cable at home so I don't know if this would cause any problems, but the WiFi works.

Best regards, and again, pardon my spelling

To be honest, I have no idea where OSX stores wifi connection logs. Where should I be looking? So far, it seems to have screwed up once since I made the change but generally been much more stable. I didn't clear out any cache so I'll do that... is that a command line job?

HI guys,

mayby this could help.. deactivate IPV6 connection in your system preferences- netwoork-Airport-Advanced-TCP/IP.

if you don't have the permission to deactivate like in Lion 10.7 (just manualy, localy and automatic):

You can disable IPv6 from the command line with:

networksetup -setv6off Ethernet

or

networksetup -setv6off AirPort

or

networksetup -setv6off Wi-FI

It worked for me

Good Luck

Wait. This has been a problem since 2008!?!??! They have continued to release mbp's with this problem and have made no effort to fix it?! this is absolutely ridiculous. I am absolutely furious. I want compensation, this is such a scam.

Some people have had problems with some networks, but most MBPs work just fine on most Wi-Fi networks, or no one would buy Macs.

The fact is Wi-Fi is a complex technology that can be sidelined by any number of things, it's not some huge conspiracy on Apple's part.