MacOS Sequoia installed. Internet will randomly drop connection

Hi, I have an desktop iMac M1 with 8 GM memory and I am having the same issues. I just went into my network settings and adjusted the private wi-fi settings from "fixed" to "rotating" and I tried Zoom again this morning and its still slow but I didnt get the "unstable internet connection" error...yet. Here's hoping! I use zoom everyday all day for work and I dunno what to do, other than switching to my macbook pro laptop, until Apple fixes this. I dont really understand the comments about the "little snitch" in the VPN...what is that? I am really struggling with this as I am not a computer person so I am a bit tech illiterate.

Pray for me....I may end up sending this iMac to the moon, Alice! But seriously...if anyone comes up with a fix, please let me know!

Zackdul wrote:

My "solution" is to use a WiFi instead of a cabled connection and live with less reliability and speed.

Maybe you should upgrade your WiFi. Modern WiFi connections are faster than any wired connections except for 10 GB, which are extremely rare.

pest1 wrote:

Interestingly, the packet filter (PF) firewall app MURUS works just fine on both my computer's but not the built-in firewall setting when enabled. Curious since Murus is just a GUI app for macOS built-in PF firewall.

The packet filter is a low-level networking system. The application firewall that is causing so much trouble is actually a different system. People who have investigated it in the past say that it seems to be implemented using pf underneath.

Macs Pain wrote:

"Anyone using Handbrake? Transcoding videos completely breaks the

internet connection now on that Mac, doesn’t matter if WiFi or wired…"

Looks like the 15.0.1 update fixed this for me. :)

15.0.1 makes it worse for very many people. Suggest avoiding this update. Turning off the firewall helps, assuming you have Little Snitch as well. Do not suggest running with absolutely no firewall.

I regret upgrading MacOS this time.

MacMini, non stop problems accessing my local network resources.

Sometime disabeling Wifi helps, some times the VPN (well.. we don't you to allow to hide from the big bad advertisers don't we) or random mac ... getting tired of this .....

Good deal, watching with interest.

Another buggaboo it could be...

RichardFoo User level: Level 1 (4 points)

Feb 15, 2019 4:24 PM in response to TimsTech

I've been debugging a problem with my VPN client constantly reconnecting, along with poor WiFi performance. After much digging, I came across an excellent article - although written for Yosemite and iOS8, it still seems to be relevant to Mojave, especially with a newer WiFi chip in the 2018 MacBook Pro. https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifriedx-in-depth-look-at-yosemite-wifi-and-awdl-airdrop-41a93eb22e48

The author wrote a program that essentially just issues a command and keeps it enforced. You can try it manually in a terminal window: sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

To reverse the command, type: sudo ifconfig awdl0 up

He gives a great technical explanation, so I won't repeat it here. The command disables a virtual network interface that's used for ad-hoc WiFi by features like Airdrop; I personally won't miss them. So far, I've gone from losing my connection 20 times an hour to being stable for 3+ hours.

netstat -v |grep "CLOSE_WAIT" | grep -i "iphone\|ipad" |awk '{print $9}' |sort |uniq | xargs kill

And curl says "Can't assign requested add… - Apple Community

mhowie wrote:

Thanks for the input. Are you referring to the adapter within the Mac Studio? Wouldn't surprise me to discover Apple uses cheap components but I'd hope not.

The OP was talking about a MBP. I was thinking of a cheap USB-C to Ethernet, or one with multiple ports, not the built-in Ethernet port such as the one in a Mac Studio.

Check you WiFi settings. A new feature was introduced and not much was said about during beta testing

Three settings are in it. Off, Fixed and Rotating

Seems like a Teams update and a reboot "may" have fixed it. I can hold a call on Teams now, but it does detect a loss of network randomly...when there is no loss of network.

Norton will bring many Macs to their knees.

network: fixed; mac firewall: off.

Little Snitch is now functioning both content filter and dns proxy paired with stevenblack's rules.

ExpressVPN working

ProtonVPN not working

Update your MacOS to 15.2 and also optimise your conferencing applications (Zoom, Teams, Viber..etc) with latest patch to fix the issue.

I remember a while back that DropBox was giving users some problems. They switched to Box and the problems went away. If you can switch give Box a try and see if it works with your setup.

Similar situation: m3 max, sequioa 15.0; little snitch (up to date), express vpn, proton vpn as backup.

since updating internet has been very broken despite attempts at troubleshooting and trying to find the cause. I’ve tried all fixes provided, still abysmal. Will probably Time Machine prior to sequioa until things get fixed.

I am facing the same issue on a M3 MacBook Pro. It drives me mad when doing video calls via Zoom or Teams, every 30-60 seconds my internet connection drops for a few seconds. Happens both on WiFi and Ethernet. Other devices without Sequoia work fine.

I deleted the network configs, I flushed the DNS cache, I tried using different DNS servers, I deactivated virus protection software. Did not help.

Apple engineers, we need you!