new macbook pro 2011 weak and dropping wireless connection

GreenTape wrote:

Is anyone using the Apple Airport Extreme base station??? wondering if buying one of these will help...ment to susport 300mbps transfer :s

300Mbps is the maximum theoretical transfer speed over 802.11n. In actual practice you'll never see that speed -- best case you could probably expect half that, tops.

That said, I routinely see actual transfer speeds of ~100Mbps between my AirPort Extreme Base Station and my 2011 MacBook Pro...and I have the same ping issues that everyone else seems to be having. I've very pleased with 100Mbps over wireless -- that's better than what you can achieve with a 10/100 wired Ethernet connection!

I have also Problems with my wireless connection. My Macbook Pro 15" Early 2011 and my Fritzbox 7290 are only about 4 meters from each other. Ping times are very bad.

My MBP lost it´s connection if i bring it to sleep - after that i have no connection and only an REBOOT Helps!

I tried everything: other channels, other places, SMS + PRAM Resett - but nothing helps...

So you guys here do u think it´s REALLY Software Problems OR it´s Hardware Problems?

I asked because my MBP is about 5 Days OLD - and at the moment maybe it´s better to Replace it with an new one???

KIND REGARDS FROM Germany

It works great for me on my 5GHz N-only network. never a drop-out or loss of signal that I'm aware of.

Are you on Win 7 64 bit or on 32 bit, my Win 7 64 bit does not connect most of the time ! 😟

Noman84 wrote:

Are you on Win 7 64 bit or on 32 bit, my Win 7 64 bit does not connect most of the time ! 😟

I am running Windows 7 x64 with bootcamp.

It has no problem connecting to my Netgear WNDR3700/WNDR37AV in either OS.

I am getting good signal and 1ms ping times to the router in Windows.

In Mac OS, I also get good signal but ping times wildly fluctuate from 1-300ms.

The latency is the problem in my case, if I am not doing anything time sensitive it doesn't affect me.

If I am trying to remote into servers at work, like actually do my job, then it gets very frustrating.

I type something on the remote server and see it appear a second later instead of instantly.

Maybe you are having a different issue if it doesn't even want to connect?

Time to replace your router and/or wireless access point maybe.

My old G based Linksys had all sorts of issues with newer wireless cards.

It would drop connections spontaneously and sometimes refuse to assign IPs until rebooted.

dimaxp wrote:

I am running Windows 7 x64 with bootcamp.

It has no problem connecting to my Netgear WNDR3700/WNDR37AV in either OS.

I am getting good signal and 1ms ping times to the router in Windows.

In Mac OS, I also get good signal but ping times wildly fluctuate from 1-300ms.

The latency is the problem in my case, if I am not doing anything time sensitive it doesn't affect me.

If I am trying to remote into servers at work, like actually do my job, then it gets very frustrating.

I type something on the remote server and see it appear a second later instead of instantly.

I have also noticed the ping variation, when the connection is otherwise mostly idling.

But when I transfer something at the same time with slow bitrate, then the pings are good.

Maybe this is something to do with power saving?

I don't have any connection drops and it connects always very quick, with 2.4 or 5GHz, using WPA2-AES. I haven't noticed any lag, except the ping. I use a lot of SSH where 300ms lag would definetily be an issue.

I'm using macbook pro 13" 2011 early connected to Netgear wndr3700, with latest firmware.

bbogey wrote:

dimaxp wrote:

I am running Windows 7 x64 with bootcamp.

It has no problem connecting to my Netgear WNDR3700/WNDR37AV in either OS.

I am getting good signal and 1ms ping times to the router in Windows.

In Mac OS, I also get good signal but ping times wildly fluctuate from 1-300ms.

The latency is the problem in my case, if I am not doing anything time sensitive it doesn't affect me.

If I am trying to remote into servers at work, like actually do my job, then it gets very frustrating.

I type something on the remote server and see it appear a second later instead of instantly.

I have also noticed the ping variation, when the connection is otherwise mostly idling.

But when I transfer something at the same time with slow bitrate, then the pings are good.

Maybe this is something to do with power saving?

I don't have any connection drops and it connects always very quick, with 2.4 or 5GHz, using WPA2-AES. I haven't noticed any lag, except the ping. I use a lot of SSH where 300ms lag would definetily be an issue.

I'm using macbook pro 13" 2011 early connected to Netgear wndr3700, with latest firmware.

Good point. If, while transferring a file from one of my AirPort Disks, I ping my AEBS, I get pings between 1-3ms. I also haven't experienced any connection drop and the only issue I've noticed is also just the ping when otherwise idle. Maybe it is indeed a power saving issue.

Ping test 3m away from a router...

PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=40.772 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=64.701 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=88.409 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=9.873 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=33.469 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=254 time=57.438 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=254 time=81.974 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=254 time=4.102 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=254 time=26.602 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=254 time=4.030 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=254 time=73.675 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=254 time=97.575 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=254 time=19.037 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=254 time=43.022 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=254 time=3.976 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=254 time=4.494 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=254 time=11.719 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=254 time=36.048 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=254 time=59.282 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=254 time=4.205 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---

20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.976/38.220/97.575/30.490 ms

bbogey wrote:

I have also noticed the ping variation, when the connection is otherwise mostly idling.

But when I transfer something at the same time with slow bitrate, then the pings are good.

Maybe this is something to do with power saving?

I don't have any connection drops and it connects always very quick, with 2.4 or 5GHz, using WPA2-AES. I haven't noticed any lag, except the ping. I use a lot of SSH where 300ms lag would definetily be an issue.

I'm using macbook pro 13" 2011 early connected to Netgear wndr3700, with latest firmware.

Hmm, I just started a video stream in the background and let the ping run.

It does indead result in 1-3ms ping times, that's kind of weird.

I am actually using RDP (Windows Servers) not SSH.

When I have the stream running in the background it is snapier, but not as snappy as it should be.

Yep, this definitely makes a difference for me as well.

i have noticed something similar to dimaxp and Tuskaa above.

I am pinging my time capsule from within a terminal window, and observing over time the different ping latency. Any time the MBP is doing a backup onto the time capsule, i.e when the Time Machine Backups disc is visible of the desktop and data is streaming to it, the ping time drops to between 1ms & 3ms. When the backup is finished and the disc icon goes away from the desktop the latency immediately returns to an average of about 150ms with standard deviation of about 70ms.

I have been so disappointed with my wireless situation. After being a PC guy, I thought I would take the plunge into the Mac world.

As soon as I introduced the Mac to my network, things went to ****; dropped connections, our 2 iPads constantly lost connections, as well as our other PCs.

I did some digging around and found the AT&T DSL (which we use) forum and came upon this thread.

http://forums.att.com/t5/Routers-and-Home-Networks/connection-problem-with-my-ma cbook-pro/m-p/2026669

I followed the advice on page 8 and bridged my 2Wire modem/router and connected a new Netgear N300 router.

I have been problem free for 2 days now......fingers still crossed

I'm having the exact same problems. I'm not even sure if the MBP stays online long enough to finish this comment.

I would have thought this would be a reasonable easy fix (an update for example) and I'm pretty disapointed with Apples response.

What a you guys/girls using to do your ping test?

I'm using "sudo ping -f -c 10000' from Terminal.

I figured I'd send packets as fast as I could to the Belkin router I'm using here.

I have three MBPs in front of me:

- A 17" mid-2009 unibody running 10.5.8

- A 15" mid-2010 unibody running 10.6.6

- A 17" early-2011 unibody running 10.6.7

The mid-2009 and mid-2010 computers drop 0-1 packets on average.

The early-2011 laptop hasn't been able to drop fewer than 200 packets.

Really, Apple?

PS: I'm curious as to the resuts one would see with an Airport Extreme as the base station instead. I'm sure this has been discussed here, though (too lazy to look).