Mac Mini M2 wifi issues

Thanks, but unfortunately my main back-up is an SSD located in a "Mac Mini dock" which sits under the Mac Mini and also has front-facing USB and SD card connections. This has a fixed USB-C cable so I cannot change it.

It works on Apple Silicon with WiFi issue. It does not hurt to try. It works for me.

I believe there is something wrong with power modulation in the M2 model.

M2 Mac-mini also has power issues with HDMI and USB-C ports.

I really hope Apple is working on this problem. I bought the Mac Mini M2 Pro specially for the purpose of being a headless server, even bought a WiFi 6e router sitting across the room to serve it, now I have had to temporarily connected them with an ugly cable...

Me too. I am on my 2 exchanged because of wifi and thunderbolt issues.

This last mac Mini M2Pro was working perfectly until it did the latest update. Now it is having Wifi issues, it connects and disconnects every few seconds.

I am now testing to see if anything else, like thunderbolts, have been affected as well.

Here's my story with this issue.

Recently, I've bought a MacBook Pro 16" M2 Pro.

First, at the setup I noticed I was unable to connect to 5GHz Network!

So, I connected to 2.4GHz Network, which worked perfectly.

After the setup was completed, I was trying to connect to the 5GHz Network!

I couldn't connect to 5GHz at all, so I reached out to Apple Support, they told me I should do a complete MacOS reset. After the full MacOS reset, I was struggling with the same issue. I was going to give up, and return my new Mac device. Lastly, I reached out to my ISP, and they told me I should try on a different router. So, I bought a TP-LINK Archer C6 Router. I successfully connected to the 5GHz network. For all the Apple users, who struggles with the same issue. My suggestion is: Try out the 5GHz connection with a different router. My problem solved. :)

I also found that my Mac mini M2 Pro works with older router, it works fine with my Linksys WiFi-5 router, but not with my Asus AX-11000 nor my Asus AXE-7800, so it works with AC, but not AX or AXE protocol, and I noticed it drops connection when the router tries to push the Mac to a better band, which my AXE router constantly tries to push the Mac to 6GHz band. Once in awhile, it works and the Mac moves to 6GHz, then the problem goes away. But it's really just a temp workaround, Apple needs to get this right as soon as possible, people don't always have the freedom to choose router, especially working away from home.

I solved (temporarily) my issues with the wi-fi by connecting the Mac Mini Pro 2 by ethernet cable to a wi-fi extender in my office, and the internet speeds are similar to what I achieve using my MacBook on wi-fi in the same location.

I actually think I figured the problem out .

i have a router in My bedroom and in my garage I have an airmesh router extender.

( this is where I have My mac mini m2pro.}

so I did a firmware update on my airmesh extender and what it said was new on the update was they added wp3 personal . I don’t recall correctly but once I updated that boom ! I can connect perfectly fine.

But I can’t connect to my bedrooms router I think I need to update that or try to enable that wp3

I picked up a base model M2 mac mini to replace my parent's 21.5" Late 2013 iMac. First thing I did was run a speed test on 5Ghz and I was getting 7Mbps down and 10Mbps up despite my parents having a 250/10 plan with Cox. Switching to 2.4Ghz (its a separate SSID) the mac mini gets about 270Mbps down and 10Mbps - great speeds.

The router is a TP-Link Archer C7 version 4.0 that is in the same room about 15 feet away.

Its not the HDMI cable. I downloaded speedtest.net app and ran it blindly with only power and usb wired mouse connected. I put the cursor over the big GO button prior to unplugging HDMI cable and powering off monitor. Still terrible speeds.

My USB powered HUB used as a workaround introduce new issues: The LG Oled C1 is flickering 3 times in a row randomly... about 3 times in a day of 10 hours... this was not the case before.

After a reboot, not all SSD are mounted, also something you don't expect on this class of hardware.

So there is something with USB / thunderbolt port going on. Let's hope it is NOT hardware #MacMiniM2Gate :-)

FALSE ALARM - Everything is fine! The SSID of the 5Ghz network had 24Ghz in the name, and the SSID of the 2.4Ghz network had 5Ghz in the name.

So now that the SSIDs correspond to the correct networks, it was the 5Ghz network that worked all along - its the 2.4Ghz network that is slow. My bad. 🙃

I recently bought a new Mac mini Pro with a m2 chip. My internet provider is Ziggo. I also have experienced this same issue as the people above. My Mac mini Pro shows connection to the WiFi, however there is no internet connection. All my laptops and other electronic devices in my room do have WiFi and work fine. I returned the computer back to the Apple Store where it appeared to be normal functioning. However at home again the same problem appeared (No WiFi at all, but still connected). However when using the LAN cable, I have perfect internet connection. So what is the solution to this major problem that has been occurring to everyone in this thread?

Just to note, I am on Ziggo too (a Netherlands provider) and my previous posts describe the same issues. Solved for the moment by linking to a wi-fi extender with an Ethernet cable. Apple have tried to contact me twice to discuss it, but I am currently traveling so could not respond, but they are obviously aware of this issue.

I may have found a solution, at least now my Mac Mini M2 Pro will roam strictly follow my router's band steering. Turn off location service for WiFi and Network in Privacy settings, that way, the Mac will use the locale of the network instead of decides on it's own.

I meant I read that 2 days ago https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/02/fourth-macos-ventura-134-beta-plagued-by-networking-issues

"reports from developers on Twitter indicate there may be a problem with the update. Tweets from developers including @Aaronp613 and @iSoftwareUpdates indicate multiple people have updated and found that they have networking issues. 

Early-stage reports from users indicate it could be a Wi-Fi-specific issue, with the network connection dropping periodically for some participants."

so 13.4 BETA make it worse somehow :-(