Starlink and Apple Devices Constantly Dropping

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hold the Option key while you click on the WiFI icon on the menubar.

choose wireless diagnostics, and the Assistant Window opens. Click (continue).

Over the next several minutes, you will get a quick check of you settings and GROSS workability.

if it provides any recommendations, you should likely heed them.

There are also several other windows on its Window menu that can be used to get more information, most of which is very obscure.

First, this on Poisoning Internet performance:

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners. or a VPN that you installed yourself. The main reason is that they are relentless in scanning your files, non-stop, looking for things virus-like patterns in Everything. When completed, they do it all again.

The idea that a third party, with no special knowledge of the inner workings of MacOS, can somehow find a simple way to protect your computer — that is not already being done by MacOS itself — suggests that the MacOS developers are somehow "holding out on you". That is absurd.

You should remove any and all (other than Apple built-in) virus scanners, speeder uppers, optimizers, cleaners, App deleters or VPN packages you installed yourself, or anything of that ilk.

Third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, BackBlaze, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive can ruin performance, but are not inherently dangerous.

Effective defenses against malware and ot… - Apple Community

Effective defenses against malware and ot… - Apple Community

what makes diagnosing and solving wi-Fi problems (including Starlink) much more complex is that the signals are traveling in unknown ways through your local "network neighborhood". The signals themselves drop off as the inverse cube of the distance from the Router, and do not travel through ordinary building materials well, and through solid masonry almost not at all. Signals may then get clobbered by interference from other nearby Routers, microwave ovens, baby monitors, certain portable landline phones, radar, and many other causes.

We are also discovering that although Wi-fi six devices have the Potential to be faster, their patterns must persist for longer, and are MORE delicate and More subject to interference than older signals. Wider data channels to not necessarily yield increased speed.

Best assessments can be made after examining your performance snapshot: hold the Option key while clicking on the Wi-Fi icon on the menubar, and screenshot, photograph, or transcribe the values shown, similar to this older one:

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