My machine:
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Mac14,12
Model Number: Z170000FTLL/A
Chip: Apple M2 Pro
Total Number of Cores: 10 (6 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory: 32 GB
System Firmware Version: 8419.80.7
OS Loader Version: 8419.80.7
Serial Number (system): PL4D161CFH
Hardware UUID: 30FF2CBC-C426-59DB-81B3-4209433C91C2
Provisioning UDID: 00006020-000810E402C0C01E
Activation Lock Status: Disabled
My symptoms:
After a day or two -- my mini drops off the wifi. After awhile, it claims to reconnect but pinging the address of the router fails:
➜ ~ ping 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
...
Other devices in the same room are fine (this drop has twice occured during a browser based google meet that I was able to quickly rejoin on my iphone).
I have tried all the things here, even rebooting and power cycling don't fix. Restarting the router is the only "fix" -- which is a kick in the nads for all the devices that do work (cause that takes out the TV too and the boss hates that).
It's as though the mini loses crypto and is unable/unwilling to re-establish the link.
The router is a (Canada) Bell Home Hub 3000. My computers all have DHCP reservations (allowing me to have a static hosts file and support ssh, etc without having to monkey with the steaming pile that is mDNS or setup my own). The wifi crypto is WPA2.
So unlike some, I'm not yet convinced that the m2 needs to be returned -- but I agree, it is super <salty language> annoying.
I have a couple more experiments I'll doing the next time this happens -- will follow-up.