Hi, I have two Macs, one in a home recording studio and one for other use. On one of the Mac’s, iMac from late 2022 (OS 10.9 Mavericks), my internet does not work since yesterday. Wifi connection is good. Both browsers, Safari and Firefox are not able to do anything. My other Mac the internet is fine. Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be?
iMac 24″, macOS 12.2
10.9 Mavericks will not run on a 2022 Mac.
It will run on Macs below
OS X Mavericks - Technical Specifications
up to October 15, 2014. All newer Macs can't run Mavericks.
Incidentally the minimum requirements for El Capitan are the same as Mavericks.
That said, Apple menu -> About This Mac will tell you what you are actually running.
The System Report or Profile in the About This Mac window will give you a Machine ID such as iMac x,y.
The x,y value will help us identify which Mac you have if the About This Mac does not.
Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Network will let you determine if you have ethernet or WiFi connectivity. You may need to adapt to ethernet from thunderbolt if present to connect to your modem if the above port is not present.
WiFi connectivity also known as Airport connectivity may fail on 5 Ghz but work on 2.4 Ghz. This can be the case if your WiFi adapter is another room. Check there is send/receive data in the WiFi router happening. If the lights are off, you may need to power cycle the modem first and the WiFi router once the modem shows it has internet. Sometimes the modem and WiFi are the same box.
You can also sometimes make your cell phone into a WiFi hotspot. Let us know if you have an Android or iPhone and we can help you set that up if needed.
Under advanced settings in the Network panel, if the connection is active but only giving you a 169.x.x.x internet address the DHCP lease may need to be renewed. Turn off all proxies, and VPN. The only reason to use VPN is if you are connecting to a school or corporate network where they control the network traffic. In which case, their technical support needs to be contacted to ensure your connectivity is successful.
I've done it all again. It doesn't work. You said this only worked on Ventura didn't you? Anyway, it doesn't work. When I join the network via “join other” I'm already on that network anyway so maybe that's why it doesn't make any difference? My new location in Network has all the settings as above and it doesn't make any difference to the automatic loaction.
You can’t paste the output. When you paste in or type in “ping amazon.com -c10” and hit return, a load of text appears automatically. I can’t paste your text into where it goes. It doesn’t let you do that. It doesn’t even let you delete the text that appears.
Remember that when I did that code in Terminal I was attached to the internet via Ethernet. Like I am now or I wouldn't be able to go on this site. Should I unattach the Ethernet, turn the wifi back on and enter the code in Terminal again? Anyway, I will do that now and post a screen shot.
Is this question in the right place? Can anybody help with this? Thanks.
That's my bad! It's Monterey, hence being/posting in the Monterey section. I accidently put the OS of the computer I'm on now! It's definitely Monterey. Thanks
Oh yeah, what he says
Sounds like you did Safe Mode right.
Should I reset the PRAM next? Let me know what you think best. Thanks.
Ok, I’ll try to find out if it has a 2.5 Ghz network. This might take a while. Thanks again.
Can anybody help with this? Thanks.
Can anybody help with this? It's been over 24 hours since I posted a reply about what BT said. Thanks again.
and no, I'm not running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps.
OK. :)
No I didn't. I was already connected to my network. Should I try to join a different network? I will read your instructions again. Maybe I misunderstood.
Because there are dozens of files involved in a successful connection, we don't ant it defaulting to past files.
Internet Not Working on My Mac?
