Macbook Pro keeps disconnecting

My Macbook Pro (M3 max, 2023) running OS Sonoma (Version 14.4.1) keeps disconnecting from the home wifi and then reconnecting. It happens constantly throughout the day (and at the most inopportune times, but that's Murphy's Law, I am sure). My iPhone, iPad, and iPods are on the same home wifi network and work fine. I have "forgotten this network" and reconnected it a few tiimes, to no avail. Any recomendations will be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro (M3 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Apr 1, 2024 8:15 AM

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Posted on Apr 1, 2024 8:39 AM

Hold down the Option key while you click on the WiFi icon on the menubar. This reveals a snapshot of current WiFi operating parameters. Screenshot, photograph, or transcribe those values to a reply on the forms for readers to analyze. Yours will resemble this older one, provided by MrHoffman:


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Apr 1, 2024 9:25 AM in response to DanielRhys

Your measured raw signal is too low for a reliable connection. Raw signal at -73 dB is just short of where no connection can be made at all, about-75 dB. Right on top of your Router is typically about -45 dB.

Your measured noise is WAY too high at -86. That suggests you are using a channel that overlaps in a major way with a nearby Router.


MCS index of 1 and NSS of 2 says you can barely make out the difference between the signals on two antennas, and the modulation technique being used is THE most simple one, providing a Transmit rate of only 130 M bits/sec. The potential on this 80 MHz channel is 867 M bits/sec.


Your hardware appears to be working as desgined.


Problems seen include: :


• not enough signal -- the distance computer to router is too great, or too much construction materials intervene.

• too much Noise -- likely from another router on the same channel. There are some ways to move to different channel to dodge this. But you would still have low signal.


Many users assume that the basement or cable-entry point is the ONLY place for their Router. This is not true. Your Router can be moved to anywhere there is a cable-TV cable. It just needs another Cable-TV splitter at the location you choose, or split the label in the basement and install a new leg, just for the Router.


If moving the Router closer is not an option, you may need to consider one of MANY different ways to provide an additional access-point.

Apr 1, 2024 9:54 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

MrHoffman is in a high visibility position, and that is why edited out his BSSID. He might be subject to pranks by his users. BSSID is the Router identifier, but it can only be used to identify your exact router from nearby your building, not from the internet. Even if someone knew your BSSID, they would still have to find a way to break in, which is not trivial.


Router IP address and station IP address shown are not Routable, they are "strictly-local" IP addresses can only be used by users already inside the same network.


I would guess a quarter of the WiFi networks in the world are using 10.... Local IP addresses, and most of the rest are using 192.168...


source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network


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