MacBook Pro M1 WiFi issue

Any resolution found? Im having the same issue with wifi disconnection randomly on my new M1 MacBook Pro . Not an issue with my old 2015 MBP at the same desk. M1 laptop has been wiped and set up from scratch and the latest OS version installed but the problem continues.

Nice to finally see someone say there is in fact an issue. Would you mind sharing where Apple has acknowledged the problem? I called support yesterday and they were clueless.

I have many Apple devices in my home and 3 are M1 based products (MBA, IPad Pro and a Mac Mini) and all M1 devices do the same thing meaning WiFi randomly stops working multiple times a day. The Mac Mini was so bad I had to run an Ethernet cable across the room to connect to it so my Time machine backups would run without failing due to the WiFi constantly dropping.

I should also add that I’ve tried all the recommended fixes (reset network settings, reset router, etc.) and the problem always returns. Only thing I can do is turn WiFi off and then on again which fixes it until it drops again.

They need to fix this ASAP. Crazy it’s taking so long.

It's the latest Xfi Gateway 3rd Generation Model: CGM4331COM, hardware revision V2. Pretty sure this isn't a wifi router issue. My other non M1 Macs and PC's in the home work fine on 5Ghz 80Mhz Channel Bandwidth. It's just these M1 devices that have the issue.

I upgraded the Mac's to 11.5 a few days ago and no change. I've logged into the router Admin and tried to change the Channel Bandwidth setting but most settings including that are grayed out. I've tried 3 different times (2 chat sessions and 1 phone call) with Xfinity support to get them to tell me how to make it so the router will let me make changes.

Nothing they've had me do will let me change the 5Ghz router settings. I'm beginning to think I need to go buy my own router, put the Xfinity router in Bridge mode and then test these devices on the lower Channel Bandwidth settings. I'm spending way too much time troubleshooting Apple M1 wifi issues.

<< has anyone figured out a cause or a fix? >>

why YES! there are several work-arounds already posted on this very long discussion.

Please read every posting -OR-

for individual attention, start a new discussion with the details of YOUR setup. Be sure to include what model Mac and what version of MacOS, and a title that will attract the readers you need to solve your problem.

I have a brand new MacBook Pro M1Pro 14". From the beginning I experience 3 issues:

• After taking back my Mac to life it takes long to find all APs
• After choosing an AP it takes long to get connected
• I frequently get disconnected from the AP

This happens at home, at a friends home and in the office. Others who are in the exact same room and are connected to the exact same AP don't get connected with their laptops. I never experienced it with my old MacBook Pro that I used until a month ago.

So it's not the routers or the APs or whatever. It's my brand new MacBook Pro M1Pro!

Diagnostics says I'm fine. My speedtest is Ok. So what's wrong with my antenna or my receiver? Or perhaps with Monterey?

I have become a laughing stock for my colleagues when I'm presenting through Teams and get disconnected every time. I've paid too much for this device for this to be happening....

******* **** it was my network was having troubles when i connect more than 1 device on it...

I have 2 wifi networks and 1 worked normally and the other one not.

So it was not coming from the MacBook Pro M1.

Oops sorry for the preceding message.

I have the same problem with my Macbbok pro M1. The internet connection keeps dropping. It is irritating. I thought it had to do with hardware, so I brought it back to an apple store for inspection. Since it is intermittent, it worked fine during the hardware tests. I also tried using a ethernet dongle instead of wifi, and yet the same problem occurs. This is very frustrating. My other apple products (iPad Air 4th gen, iPhone 13 mini, MacPro 5,1, and MacBook Pro retina 2013) all work perfectly fine. Rebooting the ISP and router does not solve this issue.

Oh Dear,

The last time this happened it took Apple 2 years to figure out and admit that they had a bug in their device driver.

We're screwed. It's similar symptoms as well. I am experiencing PTSD.

The last time it was when upgrading to 802.11ac. This time it's 802.11ax. If you have a router that doesn't speak 802.11ax you will probably be fine, or at least I can imagine you will be fine.

This is going to be a long, slow torturous experience for us all.

I haven't had any problems since I forgot the network ... Not sure why. If you have done a re-install, well there's no hope. I went through several OS re-installs the last time this happened with 80211/ac before they figured it out.

It took me a very long time to figure out how to turn off 2.4 Ghz and then I realized that my printer only supports 2.4Ghz ...

I already sent back my old laptop so I am committed. If I figure anything out I will let you know.

Just got a MacBook Air M1 for my daughter and have the same issue with wifi just stopping entirely. The existing connections stop (e.g. in the middle of the Monterey update download) and DNS resolution stops, pings to the wifi router won't work, etc. Only disconnecting wifi and reconnecting or a reboot fixes it.

Does anyone know if the Intel CPU based MBA works? I imagine it uses a different wifi chipset so hopefully that means it works and I can try returning this MBA M1 and getting the Intel-based one.

I was just trying to help the other guy look at his actual wifi connection.

I believe ultimately this is a wifi-driver issue like it was years ago for me back when 802.11/ac was new, only it's not, currently at least, as catastrophic for me as the 802.11/ac problem was, which lasted two years, and required many OS-reinstalls and boots into safe mode before they even believed me that it was an issue on their end.

I am curious whether people who are having a serious problem right now are connecting to 802.11/ax networks, or whether it's an old one, like 802.11/n or /ac. Last time my problems went away if I separated my AC and N networks with separate names, and just connected to the N network (much slower at the time).

I also believe that if there's an answer, we as a community can mark it, and the 8 and growing pages of discussion will not matter.

MacBook Air (M1, 2020) running OS Monterey 12.0.1

Safari running slower and slower, almost stopped.

Thought it may have been:

Service Provider (complained)

NBN (checked)

Modem (replaced)

Wireless Network (double-checked, connected with Ethernet cable)

Network interference (turned everything off)

Problem was when “Hide IP address” was selected in Privacy settings in Safari. Turned it off and all my slow network problems were resolved immediately.

Brand new M1 MBP 14"

Happens to me too

My dmesg is FULL of wifi-errors constantly (see screenshot).

Tried a multitude of different locations / networks, always the same.

Can the others here check their dmesg as well? I see dozens of notices/warnings/errors from "LQM Wifi" and "slow-wifi" every second.

Update 12.0.1 -> 12.1 changed nothing about it.

Can anyone else with this issue humor me and try something? I don't know if I'm seeing patterns that aren't there. But if I run a ping or a speed test I'm almost positive that the speed or ping improves from simply lifting the laptop up a few inches.