WiFi Issues With MacBook Air

I am about two weeks in to my new Macbook Air and love it except for the wifi. I have had five or six other Mac laptops in the past five years including the original air. I can confirm that there are some wifi issues with the Macbook Air. Based on the messages posted here and my experience here is where I am. I think if it is a "N" network it seems to work fine. I have never had an issue with my Airport Extreme at my house or my Dad's Linksys at his house which is also an N. This also I think resolves the "is it an ISP" issue, since they are distinctly different ISP's and these both work perfectly.

My problems are on non-N's it seems. I travel a lot so I hit a lot of guest networks which are almost always "g". These networks I can generally find and attach to them but not get a consistent internet connection. With these networks I have found that turning the airport on/off and refreshing the IP address does not work. Again I can connect to the browser, in most cases get what appears to be a valid IP but not gain any internet access. I have found that a power down and reboot AFTER attaching to the network (but not getting the internet connection) will then give me a steady and consistent connection.

I need to do some more testing and I guess traveling to pin down some of these things but I wanted to share what I have found thus far, but I definitely think there is a problem with the wifi on the new MacBook Air's.

Thanks,

Macbook Pro and iMac 27" and iPad and iPhone and MacBook Air 2010, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 28, 2010 6:10 AM

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Jun 23, 2014 12:12 PM in response to CB500X

The USB Wireless is a small device that plugs into one of the USB ports. Once the driver is installed from the disk, it can take over wireless bypassing the Mac builtin wireless interface. Some configuration is required. It worth the work to rid yourself of the Mac Air wireless issues. The Air may work alright if you can turn off your Bluetooth without the USB wireless interface but that is a severe penalty.


This problem should not exist with a primarily wireless portable - bad engineering and poor problem correction form Apple.


Here is a link to the device on amazon


http://www.amazon.com/Bolse®-300Mbps-Wireless-N-Micro-Adapter/dp/B00DTZYHX4/ref= sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403550367&sr=8-1&keywords=boise+bo-n1557

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