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new macbook pro 2011 weak and dropping wireless connection

Just looked throught this part of the forum and found out there are a lot of people out there which seem to have the same problem as me.

I purchased a new modell 2011 MBP on the very first day from our apple store.
At home, sitting directly beside the wireless router I didn´t noticed anything wrong.
I have got beside of the Mac OS a bootcamp Prt. with Windows 7 on it and everythign works fine so far.

Five days after purchased I started traveling on business and at present we are for some weeks in Melbourne. Were having a wireless connection in our appartement and here I have got massiv problems with my connection.

We are having altogether four windows mashines with us, my IPad, my Iphone, another HTC smartphone, and my new Macbook.

All the other devices connecting to our room wireless without problems. The net strengh is not fantastic but the other devices bringing it up to four bars on the windows wireless symbol in the task bar. None of the other computers where ever loosing the connection.

Only my macbook can not make it over three bars and its going on and off. Donwloads fail freuquently because the conection is interrupted more than one times..
In my opinion this problem is even worse on the Windows OS and a bit better but far away from beeing good and acpetable on the Mac Os.
I hope its only a driver issue and there is no hardware problem with the new mashine. Other than this I love the new notebook and I am very satisfied with its performance.

Iphone 4, Ipad 1 ,Macbook pro 13, I 5, 8GB, early 2011, Windows 7, Mac OS

Posted on Mar 8, 2011 9:00 PM

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Apr 4, 2011 2:20 PM in response to Alessandro Sabellico

Hi All,

So Ive been playing around with the different wireless settings in preferences, and I put a check next to the box which requires admin password to turn on or off the airport. So far so good, I started a download about 25 mins ago and no drop so far =D..will keep testing and see if it drops but im hoping this is the fix. Also, my ping seems to be normal now: (before it was allover the place)


PING google.com (74.125.224.81): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=133.551 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=149.561 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=133.963 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=145.067 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=132.518 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=135.167 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=143.821 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=123.786 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=140.286 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=121.299 ms
c64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=137.715 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=139.718 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.81: icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=137.016 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
13 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 121.299/136.421/149.561/7.593 ms


Will update in a couple hours and let you all know if this has fixed the issue permanently....

Apr 4, 2011 2:58 PM in response to aznjonn

Update on above post:

I have successfully stayed online for more than an hour and have downloaded a 2GB video and have started a 2nd download. I believe that checking the box in wireless preference settings for password required to turn on or off the airport has fixed his issue. For some reason, the airport may have been disconnecting on its own but by restricting the airport to have a password to turn it off may have fixed this glitch. Hope this works for everyone else, my system is:

Macbook Pro 2011 17'' (second one, returned my first to the apple store and got a brand new second one, although immediately had same issue with the airport)

So please try this and hope it fixes everyone else's macbooks!

Cheers,

JT

Apr 4, 2011 4:02 PM in response to yozhbk

Sorry, looks like i disconnected at about an hour and 20 mins....then after reconnecting, lasted for about 40 mins and disconnected again. Cant really explain it but it seems to be staying up longer than before when i have a password protection to turn on or off my airport...

im going to play around with the wireless network security options. I have a 2wire ATT router (g) and it currently set to WEP open...will try WEP PSK...dunno if this will really solve anything but hope it does

Apr 4, 2011 4:58 PM in response to aznjonn

I just tried your"trick" unluckily it did not do the trick with me ...

„Ping“ wurde gestartet …

PING www.l.google.com (66.102.11.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=232.800 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=159.572 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=129.941 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=196.703 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=120.073 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=136.569 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=75.837 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=89.381 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=26.134 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=26.535 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=26.780 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=41.855 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=65.689 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 time=89.563 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=113.371 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 time=35.217 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=26.757 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=17 ttl=56 time=28.475 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=27.386 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 time=28.839 ms


would have been a wonder...but in our situation a wonder is what we need..isnt it????
Or maybe a little wink from APPLE??????????

It cant be that all over the world people giving their machines back because of Network Problems and all the next one is getting is: We never heard of a problem with the network Card!

Apple where are you?????????????????

Apr 4, 2011 6:02 PM in response to aznjonn

aznjonn, thanks for advise. Can you also ping your local router instead of internet sites see if uneven ping time still happening?

One of the noticeable fact is uneven ping time against local router when wireless network is idle. I'm assuming that uneven(sometimes timeout) ping time results loss of connection between MBP and wireless router when it's getting worse (in my case, maybe every 3-5 day a drop-out), most of the time it's just slow link intermittently.

How does that impact depend on what you're doing, if you run realtime games/video stream a lot you probably will be suffered from that, if only internet sites surfing then you probably will be fine without even "feel" it, I guess that's why many of 2011 MBP owners don't even realize this drop-out issue we're talking about here.

Apr 4, 2011 6:43 PM in response to LaraJones

Exact same problem as most everyone here. 2011 Macbook Pro 13". Wireless connection drops every couple hours. Ping times to the router sometimes 1 or 2 ms but usually huge variances around 100ms. Bought it just a few weeks ago and took it back to the Apple store yesterday. The genius noticed the lagging ping times on the store's Wifi and did a clean install of the OS to see if that would correct the problem. Took the laptop back home last night and experienced 3 more disconnects within the next several hours. Took it back to the Apple store and they swaped mine for a new one. Brought the new one home and saw lagging ping times again. Swore it dropped the wireless connection once, but I'll pay attention if it drops it again.

First time buying a Mac and basically all I use it for is the net. Disappointed I'm losing my connections so often a day with a brand new machine. Seriously considering a full refund if the problem still exists.

Apr 4, 2011 6:56 PM in response to LaraJones

Dag. No sooner said than dropped. New MBP definitely has the same problem. Even though the ping lag occurred in the apple store, I still have the thought in the back of my head that maybe its just dropping on my Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N / dd-wrt / N / WPA2 network. I'll have to take it to another free WiFi spot for a few hours and see it drop to be convinced.

new macbook pro 2011 weak and dropping wireless connection

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