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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May 5, 2011 2:20 AM in response to So1id

before update

1m from router:

--- ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.999/28.046/93.832/35.729 ms

next room:

--- ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.351/33.629/50.458/18.255 ms


after the above updates, pinging my router from network utility

ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.295/4.162/5.810/1.223 ms


download speed is still crap!

May 5, 2011 4:56 AM in response to bitserf

My result, still crap to me but it seems like lower than before.


PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.738 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.358 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=48.352 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=7.397 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=39.735 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=7.438 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=25.901 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=5.725 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=28.689 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=6.359 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=10.904 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=9.947 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=7.761 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=7.649 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=9.884 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=21.602 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=7.396 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=19.983 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=12.867 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=7.098 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=86.526 ms

^C

--- 10.1.1.1 ping statistics ---

21 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.358/18.015/86.526/19.349 ms

May 5, 2011 5:14 AM in response to zadigre

A big improvement for me with the update. 1 meter away from an airpost extreme. Still variable though, there is no reason for them all not to be 1.xxx ms but it'll do.


PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.117 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.315 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.659 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=5.193 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.530 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=5.212 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=1.733 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=5.348 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=2.337 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.682 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=5.230 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=5.066 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=1.850 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=1.712 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=5.293 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=1.528 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=5.162 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=5.454 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=1.699 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=5.147 ms



--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---

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

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.528/3.663/5.454/1.741 ms

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