WiFi connectivity issue on Ventura

atanudeb wrote:

I’m facing Wi-Fi connection issue after Ventura OS update. It’s taking long time to connect with Wi-Fi, even after connecting no website will open and nothing will work. Please help 🙏🏼

Have you shut down the Mac, the modem, the router and rebooted all...(?)

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I’m having all kinds of problems with my Airport WiFi system since updating to Ventura. Dropouts in Airplay Music. I have done all the rebooting, restarting in Safe Mode, etc. WTF.

Called Apple support … after all kinds of troubleshooting I have been told to re-install Ventura… if that doesn’t work I will likely need to reinstall the old software using time machine … a nice way to waste a day (should have known as much given Apple’s past with new releases … shameful!!)

Three technicians, including a "Senior technician", 5 hours, and finally a solution ... it may work (we'll see). The following solved my problems, given McAffee and this IOS are not friends at first and I deleted McAffee when it was obvious. Anyway, here are some instructions that may help:

Isolate 3rd Party Software

1) Examine the contents of the following locations for evidence of 3rd party firewall, parental controls, VPN, or security software:

/Library/LaunchAgents/

/Library/LaunchDaemons/

~/Library/LaunchAgents/

~/Library/LaunchDaemons/

/Library/Startup Items/

'~' denotes the home folder, so '~/Library/' is the Library folder in the user's home folder and '/Library/' is the Library folder at the root level of the hard drive.

2) Open System Preferences/Settings > Users & Groups and remove 3rd party Login Items.

This did not work for me. After installing Ventura on a M2 MacBook Pro, there is no internet connection and none of the usual remedies work.

I removed everything from:

/Library/LaunchAgents/

/Library/LaunchDaemons/

/Library/Startup Items/

but these directories do not exist on my system:

~/Library/LaunchAgents/

~/Library/LaunchDaemons/

System Preferences now seems to be called System Settings in Ventura, and there was no access to 3rd party Login items through Users & Groups.

I cannot do anything but take my brand-new computer to a service shop to have the previous OS re-installed by them.

Not very impressive, Apple.

Another Solution

After trying reboot, NVRAM reset, removing the PLISTs etc., all with no luck, I plugged into my wired ethernet preparing to do a OS re-install. As soon as I plugged into the wired network, the WiFi connected to my router. The connection stayed good after I unplugged.

Seems like an endemic problem…