When I purchased this MacBook Pro, right out of the box I was experiencing dropped WiFi connections. Now I thought this was a simple bug and could be fixed by restarting/resetting SMC or PRAM reset, however, that wasn't the case. I'm still experiencing dropped WiFi connections even after doing those resets AND updating to 10.15.4.
Not sure why this keeps happening. Am I the only one?
MacBook Pro 16", macOS 10.15
Maybe your new MacBook Pro is generating some amazing USB 3 interfrence from its peripherals:
Why do I have difficulty with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices when USB 3 devices are attached to my computer?
Some USB 3 devices can generate radio frequency interference that can cause Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices operating in the 2.4GHz band to have issues communicating with your computer. Here are some tips to avoid this issue:
• If your USB device has a cable long enough that you can move the device, place it away from your Mac—and make sure not to place it behind your Mac, or near the hinge of its display. The antennas for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are located there, and USB 3 devices placed there might interfere with your wireless connections.
• If you're using adapters or dongles on a Mac computer with Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, plug them into the front port on the left side of your Mac, or into the ports on the right side (if your computer has them). These ports are the farthest away from the antennas, making interference less likely.
• To avoid interference on the 2.4GHz band using Wi-Fi, try using the 5GHz band instead. You can change this on your wireless base station. Bluetooth always uses 2.4GHz, so this alternative isn't available for Bluetooth.
--from an older Apple article, now retired.
When your Wi-Fi connects at 1,300 M bits/sec, and you are achieving only 338,500 in a speed test, it is not a Wi-Fi Problem, and connecting via Ethernet will be no different.
You have something running on this computer competing for that bandwidth, and cheating speed test out of nearly a Gigabit/sec.
Are you perhaps running an anti-Virus scanner?
Hi,
With 1300 Mb / s wifi rate it is possible to reach 750 Mb s IP rate.
This is what I achieve with my MBP 2017. From my NAS I can also often reach 600 Mb / s.
Unfortunately in Windows 10 bootcamp I have the same problem, it is not OS X or applications problems.
I'm starting to think my MBP is faulty.
Do you reach 750 Mb / s with wifi on an MBP 16?
Hi,
It is now 3 days later and still have not had one single connection failure .... I don't even think about it anymore as it just works now. Before that I really had a lot of dropped connections (I had the feeling it got worse over time) while my daughter, sitting next to me, connected to the same router (Apple Time Capsule, using her 5 year old MBP 13", had no problems at all (nor our phones). That got me thinking that it must have something to do with this laptop and I ended up in the other thread on this forum where they brought up that suggestion.
For me it does seem to do the job, really curious whether it does for you as well. Please keep us updated.
Kind regards.
Bad news: After almost 1 week of correct functioning this morning the WiFi-connection got dropped again.
I'm afraid Mouhamed is right in stating that somehow toggling the "watch" setting fixes the issue ... for a while and then the problems start happening again.
This is really bad for such an expensive laptop 😞
Hello,
I do not have any watch and I found that the wifi was lower than that of the MBP 2017. In good conditions it is identical. Anyway now I think that wifi is not the ideal solution, because home networks are saturated, by the number of routers and repeaters, and too much wifi equipment. I pulled out the ethernet cables.
After having had these disconnect issues (where toggling the "unlock with Apple Watch" setting seemed to "solve" this for a certain period of time) right from the start when I bought this laptop (last June) I must say that I did not have any issues anymore lately (on 10.15.7 right now). Fingers crossed.
I will report back here whenever the problem does pop-up again.
From all the tests I have done by comparing it to the MDP 2017, I think the MBP 2016 is not very good in difficult wifi reception conditions. If you manage to improve the wifi quality, the performance becomes acceptable
I thought this was solution (yes, it worked good few days) before today, when with bluetooth turned off there were many WiFi disconnects and I turned off MacBook and powered on again. Then disconnects stopped. But for how long? I think Apple must comment smth about this issue already!!! I is catastrophically annoying!
fingers crossed this was the solution so far I haven't dropped connection in a few hours my internet pages are so much faster its amazing even scrolling is way quicker :) new modem huawei hg659 will be trying a much better modem when I can get one :)
Outback1966 wrote:
yes still dropping connection :( im sure it can't be hardware in the MBP has to be a software issue or incompatibility with mt netgear D7000
In my opinion, your Apple Hardware and Software are working very well in an extremely difficult "network neighborhood". so many other devices are competing for the spectrum around you, it is difficult to keep a fast connection going.
Dear apple folks. From what I have gathered here in this thread, clearly this is an issue. I have been debugging this for sometime. I've tried:
Perhaps here is the nail in the coffin:
Yet again the Macbook 16 is incurring attenuated signal with low Tx Rate.
Please advise.
I have this same issue with my 2020 MacBook Pro 13"- It interferes with my work significantly. I can't ever share my screen while in Zoom meetings because my computer freezes up constantly and disconnects from wifi. My son uses my 2015 MacBook pro, is further away from the router with a wall in between and has zero issues with Wifi signal. I use his computer when he isn't using it for school and have no problems with it disconnecting from wifi. I did the safe mode restart, completely reset my computer, still having issues. Apple please fix this!
Rachelisberts--
This is Not Apple's problem and they are NOT working on fixing it for you.
If you would like to debug your setup, please start new thread with your specific information including an Option-Wi-Fi icon snapshot of your performance at any given moment.
This:
also, how many network can be seen from this computer?
In fact this was pulled, as it is no longer available as Beta. However it seems that Apple have found issue and will be providing update.
I've updated to 10.15.7 and it much stable than previous 15.6. But sometimes wi-fi still doesn't work. Did you notice changes with wi-fi after update?
MacBook Pro 16 2019 10.15.4 WiFi Issues / Dropping Connection -- Help!
