MacOS Sequoia installed. Internet will randomly drop connection

Similar issue with M3 MacBook Pro, I am able to join a Microsoft Teams meeting, but I become unresponsive and Teams thinks that it has lost the internet after about 30 seconds, but the internet is just fine, I can stream video at the same time. Tried turning off Private Wif-Fi, no luck.

I got the same problem here.

I did remove Adguard, Adguard VPN, turn off private Wifi address, one thing that i can't that remove Check point VPN because I need this for my work and godam I wasted the whole day but can't connect to my VPN or connect but really slow and interruption sometime. This driving me crazy :). Apple could you please help?

And If I use 4G, hotspot from my mobile I feel its better.

I am running into the same issue.

I have multiple network extensions running which are pushed by our MDM. There is no way to remove them.

I tried to only disable them but this did not solve the network stability issues.

My MacBook Pro (M1) is struggling the most of the time with networking issues / drops.

Little Snitch is more than a decade old. It has been a reliable network monitoring software by Objective Development. It's certainly not pirating software! Just alike any application, if you use it unresponsively, that's NOT the fault of the developer. Little Snitch helps to encrypt my DNS request which keeps my browsing secure and most importantly, private! It's like having manageable firewalls for controlling inbound and outbound traffic.

I have same problem with Viber. Found that the built-in Firewall orders to "Block incoming connections" for Viber and I can not change it (and some other). For some other services I can choose either to Block or Allow. How can this be fixed?

I'm seeing the same problem and the only two apps impacted are Video conferencing (Teams, Zoom) and VMWare. I turned OFF the Wifi Mac privacy, and I even disabled wireless and went to only Ethernet and still happening. My Firewall is off, and I'm using Norton 360.

I have network connection problem after Sequoia installed on my M1 iMac. It keeps disconnecting from the network, not only internet, but also local network drivers.

I connect the iMac to the network with both Ethernet and WiFi. Under system setting, both Ethernet and WiFi connections always have green dot, connected. But my iMac just keeps disconnecting from network drives and Internet.

Macs Pain wrote:

Anyone using Handbrake? Transcoding videos completely breaks the internet connection now on that Mac, doesn’t matter if WiFi or wired…

Sounds weird. Handbrake works OK for me with Mac mini 2018 Intel. Just tested it with iPhone 4K 10-bit HDR to 4K 10-bit SDR re-encode while browsing Internet.

Also otherwise Sequoia has worked OK.

For me it's even worse: the whole network stack randomly stops working at all. Independent of WiFi or wired. My last third party app is Defender, but it's not a workaround to disable the AV solution. Already a nightmare that the FW is disabled

I have this problem too. I installed MacOS Sequoia from Monterey, and the disconnection occurred on my wifi, then came back again after more than 30 secs. I notice it because I'm playing games with my friends. If there's no fix, I'll probably downgrade back to Monterey.

Same here, but I am now fighting a broken TimeMachine backup to my local NAS. Even deleting the sparse bundle and trying to recreate is not working.

Seems Apple is going the Microsoft way: fixing one issue and create three new ones.

idjwert wrote:

What kind of buffoonery is involved in not testing their releases with one of the most common 3rd party apps (Little Snitch) I have no idea.

It is the responsibility of 3rd party developers to test their software. That is why Apple gives them access to beta versions for months before release.

There’s an enormous amount of ‘blaming the victim’ going on in this thread, imo.

I’ve been suffering this issue for nearly a month.

Until reading this forum thread (and still, only in this thread) I’d never heard of Little Snitch.

On my Mac the only vpn is a hardware Meraki Z1.

The issue occurs when I am connected via wired Ethernet and WiFi is turned off, as well as when using WiFi.

So to be clear:

CHANGING A SETTING IN WIFI SETTINGS ISN’T NECESSARILY THE SOLUTION.

NOT USING SKETCHY VPN SOFTWARE ISN’T NECESSARILY THE SOLUTION.

If you don’t know the answer, don’t cop a smug, superior attitude and pretend you do.

Apple doesn't test its releases with any other software. Neither does Microsoft. Nor any Unix or Linux development shop - there's not an OS builder in the world that does that.

What they do is provide early developer access to their Beta versions, public API documentation, and Beta feedback paths. If they are committed, they may even maintain a solid semantic versioning regime for their releases (although Apple only partly does this - especially since they have separated their rapid security updates from their feature release cycle...Microsoft is even worse with its weird numbering system...it's mainly a Linux thing).

For that matter, even in the open-source world, upstream developers don't test their changes on downstream programs that depend on their code...that is, again, what semantic versioning is for - to alert the downstream developers that they need to do work.

After reading through all the thoughtful comments and trying every suggestion, my Zoom still sounds like I am in a barrel. It is sad and frustrating that Apple still hasn't fixed the issue. I called their senior support yesterday. The man was very nice, but everything he suggested I have tried.