WiFi Issues With MacBook Air

Hi friends - I updated my MBA and have had no problems at home since, but I took it to work with me yesterday and was unable to connect reliably to a Netgear 802.11g wireless router that we use to connect contractors and a wireless workgroup printer. I'm still hopeful for a solution and not sure what the statute of limitations is on returns, but there's so much else to like about the MBA that I'll probably keep it anyway and just not put myself in any situations where it's critical that I be able to connect wirelessly.

Not sure how this screenshot will turn out, but thought it might be of interest as well...

Just want to add my name to the list of unhappy campers in case Apple is actually listening to this thread. This is the message that greets me every time I open the lid of my MBA 11" upon arriving home from work (where we have the newest model Airport Extreme base station). At home I have an older AP Extreme running N-mode that works fine with every other Mac and iOS device in the house, but my MBA will not connect automatically. Instead I have to manually choose the access point from the Airport menu every time (it always fails when selected from the pop-up dialog box).

Well, after getting more and more pi$$ed off I went and downloaded the developer beta of 10.7.3 ...the 11D24 Delta version. Everything works fine on the computer and I am currently running 10.7.3 -- but alas, my wifi STILL disconnects when waking up from sleep. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of unhappy customers if the released version of 10.7.3 offers the same non-fix. Here's hoping though. Here's a link for the beta (click) if anyone's interested.

Извините друзья, но писать будем на родном. Имеем MacBook Air '2011. Периодически наотрез отказывается подключаться к домашней сетке, настроенной на работу в режиме "N-only". В поисках причин обнаружил, что карта периодически забывает, что поддерживает этот режим. О чём рапортует в "About this Mac"

Иногда помогает сброс параметров SMC и на некоторое время всё нормализуется

А вопрос собственно в следующем: деффект системный или железный? Если кривой драйвер как с этим бороться?

i had the same problem with my macbook air I bought last August.

At home it would drop the connection or gets incredibly slow while my PCs and mobile devices (iphone, android phone, ipad, android tablet) are working just fine.

But a call to the tech dept. at my broadband carrier (Virginmedia UK) solved the problem.

The guy said that the problem is the interference my macbook is getting in the environment and suggested to change the broadcast channel on my router settings.

I logged in to my router setting through my browser (when you do this, you want to connect to router through a wire, because wireless connection may get dropped during the setting and then it's a bad news)

Originally my channel was set to auto, but the tech guy said I should test from 1 and see if the problem goes away and if not then move on the 2...etc.

I set it to 1 and the problem is gone!

I don't if this is The solution but sure it would be for some people.

Good luck!

So I practically need this open if I want my internet connection to stay stable:

Once I competely exit from it, my connection drops. This is such a pain the ***. I've even tried changing WiFi Channels, resetting all my internet settings, router settings, pretty much everything mentioned above and in other threads too.

I'm not going to lie, but I'm not sure what my router is. I've accessed the router but I can't find what Ghz it is too...

I'm having very serious issues with WiFi on my MacBook Air 13" i7, a replacement from the MacBook Air 13" i5 that I bought three weeks ago. Both had this WiFi issue. I've been detailing it on this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3253568

Sounds very similar to what everyone is describing. It seems to me that it is a combination of the Air's hardware + Lion + authentication. I have detailed my testing with various machines, routers, configurations, OSes, etc. on the thread I reference, but essentially, the only affected machine I've had is the Air running Lion (i.e., a late 2009 MacBook Pro running Lion is NOT affected; various machines running Snow Leopard, iOS, Xboxes, etc., also not).

I'm presently reading through this thread, but just ever so thankful to FINALLY hear others talking about this issue. It's been maddening and it has had me dead in the water as far as working is concerned. I've spent probably 20+ hours troubleshooting this. Ridiculous.

Updating this

I contacted apple suport by phone and was given a similar fix to this dicussed earlier in the thread

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2664670?answerId=13289806022#13289806022

It works fine now at home and at the office.

cschubert wrote:

Yes, I think it's also better..

BUT..

If you have turned on Bluetooth (for my keyboard and mouse as well as iphone tethering) the wifi connection can't be established - for example when the macbook air comes up from a standby - if I open the macbook.

there is a timeout in selecting the already known wifi network.

After 20 seconds for example, I could choose the network and it connects - all is fine then till the next wakeup.

If I disable bluetooth, close the lid, open it to wake the macbook, the wifi network connects just im time.

no timeout, no issues - but then is no bluetooth enabled.. soo bad..

Is there someone out there with the same issue - is my new air defective, or is this a lion issue with the new air?

regards,

Christian

The issue of a known network timing out at the first try, then connecting seamlessly the 2nd, is happening to me, as well (public WiFi network, no security protocols enabled). This is in addition to the major issues I have documented on this thread. Well, I can't post the link in the traditional way because my network connection is timing out, so here it is: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3253568?answerId=15917757022#15917757022 .

sheilafrommarco island wrote:

I spent several hours with Apple care with the intermittent and time out issues -- they had me buy a new airport express to try as they said there is some kind of "loop" in my system. I need to set an appointment with Apple care to set it according to their instructions -- will let you know if it works. 10.7.1 did not fix it, and disabling BT did not fix it. As a last resort we will have to connect the "old-fashioned way" to get back to work as this is taking lots of time....

Sheila, I can confirm that using an Airport Express and/or Airport Extreme does NOT fix the problem. My home network has been reconfigured no fewer than three times, and I have tested no fewer than three wireless routers, all of which is detailed here, if you'd like to reference it when the Apple Store employees are suggesting you buy more Apple hardware to fix this problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3253568 . I am currently using an Airport Express N, and the problem is not resolved. Thanks for posting this.

I purchased a new MacBook Air with OSX 10.7.1 at the end of July. When I unboxed it at home I couldn't get a wifi connection. Once every three days it works, for about an hour. Then I lose the connection again. Sometimes it shows full strength on the wifi icon but nothing happens, sometimes I get contiuous popups complaining about a connection timeout, but mostly I have the wifi icon with an "!" in the middle of it.

It's not on all networks. In a coffe shop I got wifi, as well as at the house of my brother. Still. It's not just at my home the problem occurs and it's quite annoying!

My wifi is a "B-Box" installed by my IPS "Belgacom", it's a typical setup used by half the people in Belgium. My Asus and Dell notebooks, as well as my iPhone work just fine on the wifi. I never had any problems before.

For the past two month I've read all the forums and tried many proposed solutions like turning off bluetooth, downgrading the wifi driver to 10.6.8, changing the order in Network Preferences > Set Service Order so the wifi is at the top of the list, flashing the PRAM, ... Nothing helps.

Tonight I'll try the here proposed solution of setting a fixed IP on the router, but I don't like that idea too much. It doesn't really solve the issue itself, it's workaround.

I've gone to the Apple store and they had no idea what's wrong with my MacBook Air. I've gone to the FNAC store where I bought it and they don't know either. They proposed to send the machine to Apple Repair. But with it not working right out of the box, and only on certain networks, I don't see what they'll do that I haven't tried before. Aple Repair says it'll take 2-4 weeks and I can't miss my computer that long.

There's similar thread on MacBook Pro here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1352518?answerId=16345483022#16345483022

Anybody knows more about this by now?

Corywright-

the 10.7.2 may have fixed something for you on a macbook air 11", but not for everyone.

there are still conflicts between the bluetooth driver and the WiFi driver for tons of people, including myself- a veteran mac and linux sysadmin with a macbook air 11".

see the postings over at this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3198529?start=45&tstart=0