New Mac Mini M2 Pro, Internet Problems

I had the same experience. I found out that my network can't handle full throttle, so I configured the LAN adapter to 100 and its work fine for now. Of course I could use the higher speed, but need to upgrade some hardware before I can max it out.

While 13.2.1 did someone help with packet loss, the problem is not fixed on my Mac mini (M2 Pro, 12/19 core, 16GB/1TB, 10Gbps ETH). I test it in two ways. I ping apple.com in a Terminal window and run Ookla Speedtest (the app, not the website). I thought it was fixed when the first 20 pings went through just fine, but then it had a timeout. That prompted me to run Speedtest and as before, the upload test failed. With that failure, I restored the AVB/EAV workaround and all works well with the manual configuration. If it fixed it for most, that’s good, but it does not seem to be fixed in all cases.

I had a terrible time getting ethernet connection with minute and two Mac mini pro. It turned out to be one of the connections of the airport extreme, or the ethernet cable. I connected it to an ethernet hub that my other two iMac’s are connected to, and everything worked perfectly. I seem to recall I had trouble with that third from the top airport extreme connection before. It was like five years ago, so this time I wrote down a notation concerning the issue notes putting a number of keywords so I’m would be able to find it easily. Seth

Would you happen to have an external hard drive or flash drive that you could use to troubleshoot this network issue? Troubleshoot by installing macOS onto the drive, boot up from that drive, don't sign in with an AppleID, don't migrate from any other drive, setup account and network settings from scratch, then see if ethernet/wifi connectivity and/or speed issues exist.

Mac Mini M2pro Ventura 13.2

Had the same problem, switched to "configure manually"

disabled AVB/EAV mode ... solved the problem in 3 minutes.

Thank you and greetings from Austria

I had the same issue on my brand new Mini M2 Pro with ethernet ... disabling AVB/EAV mode helped.

Thank u so much. I did change the cable and it solved the problem. Great Help👌

barturas wrote:

I had the same issue on my brand new Mini M2 Pro with ethernet ... disabling AVB/EAV mode helped.

It seems that we don't even need to disable AVB/EAV mode. We only need to select Configure to "Manually."

FYI to all who might come across this thread.

I've had really reliable connectivity since swapping my device and adjusting a few settings:

1. EAB/AVB as previously detailed
2. I have hardware speeds specified on both the Mini Ethernet and my switching - I appreciate you may not be able to do this with consumer or unmanaged equipment
3. Disabling any power save or sleep function I could find in Settings

I have been in touch with Apple a few times and provided information as best I can. They've been really great collecting information and interrogating my grey area diagnosis. Hopefully my experience is isolated as I observe 13.2.1 had made a noticeable improvement in connectivity reliability for both myself and others on this thread. If I get some time I will look at rolling back some of my changes starting with (2) above and see if I can isolate anything specific.

Exact same problem here

open terminal and type ping www.google.ca and hit enter

do you see lots of timeouts/failure?

Make sure to update to 13.2.1 it solved problems for a lot of people with network issues.

That problem could be caused by old Cat 5 cables or an old Ethernet switch.

I would first test a Cat 6 Ethernet cable between the Mac mini and your Router.

Then if that helps, I would replace any Cat 5 cables between the Router > Switch(es) > the M2 Mac mini with Cat 6 cables.

Similar issue, M2 Pro, ethernet switching on and off with a frequency of approx 3s.

Solution by Patrick (many thanks!) almost worked.

In addition, I had to explicitly select the speed in addition to switching AVB off.

Wasted three hours with friendly but helpless Apple employees...

Just took delivery of my M2 Mini Pro yesterday. Came with Ventura 13.1 on it. If you haven't applied the update to 13.2 (as I did), then I would do so and then assess if your Internet issues persist.

I have the Synology RT6600AX router and a Motorola MB8611 modem, both 2.5G capable. There is Cat5e from the modem to the router, and then Cat7 cables from the router back into the household via a Startech 2.5G switch. I have no network slowdown issues with the new M2 mini.

My Wi-Fi right now on the M2 Mini Pro is showing 1300 Mbps and I am 20 feet and a wall from the router.

EAB/AVB disabled. But I believe Apple have resolved this with 13.2.1. I set Speed and Duplex to 1000/Full. You need to be able to match this with a specified configuration on your switch.

I have had no problems since my last post on this but haven't changed any settings since specifying hardware configuration as well as power management.