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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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Feb 26, 2012 4:18 PM in response to LaraJones

I think I found a solution,...here's what I did

Open keychain access

Delete all wireless's stored here under "Login" and "system"

HD> Library>preferences> delete system configuration folder(at the bottom)

restart the mac..


connect to your wireless again.

Open keychain access

right-click on your wireless

get info

access control

allow all applications

my wireless doesn't drop anymore

:-D


lemme know if it works for you too.


cheers

Mar 26, 2012 11:06 PM in response to LaraJones

OMG cant believe this is still a probably I sorted mine and forgot about it.


BUT I just changed ISP and got a new modem and am having issues speed seems fine, but sometimes it just wont load some pages.

"Oops! Google Chrome could not find maps.google.co.nz"


is this the same old MBP problem or this a problem with my ISP...I've tried a few of the fixes on the last few pages but so far nothing has worked, cant rememeber what i did last time it as nearly a year ago...

Apr 15, 2012 1:01 PM in response to LaraJones

Same problem here; had always been a Windows user and last year had the brilliant idea of getting a Mac so I could run some software of my interest. To start, apple with its new Lion ruined all my plans since I could not run any of the PPC applications I bought the mac for!!! Now I CAN'T even get online with the Mac... it is very ridiculus. The worst part is that it is almost twice as expensive than a top class Windows pc... this MAC is by far the worst computer I have owned; feel like Apple is just stealing our money; i see why the are considered so "smart", becasue they are; they manage to laugh at us selling a very dumb blondie super model. Good thing i kept my old compaq Laptop (w/windows VISTA), since I have been back to it while the new macbook pro sits there just looking sexy.

Apr 28, 2012 7:59 AM in response to appleadvice

I disagree, I believe its the aluminum case that actually causes directional signal issues. The hardware only works as well as the signal given it. I have a Dell laptop with of course a plastic case and get 130Mbps but my new Macbook Pro gets between 52 and 78 Mbps sitting in the same place. Now I can go closer to the router and the speeds go way up to more normal range. That tells me its not a hardware issue but a signal issue. If it was a hardware issue limiting speed the closer you got to the router the less improvement in speed. I find for example my older 2008 White Macbook with the plastic case getting much better speeds averaging 100 to 120Mbps. This is basically why Apple cannot address this issues that well because the antenna orientation and design are the problems.

Apr 28, 2012 11:28 AM in response to John Scott1

John Scott1 wrote:


I disagree, I believe its the aluminum case that actually causes directional signal issues. The hardware only works as well as the signal given it. I have a Dell laptop with of course a plastic case and get 130Mbps but my new Macbook Pro gets between 52 and 78 Mbps sitting in the same place. Now I can go closer to the router and the speeds go way up to more normal range. That tells me its not a hardware issue but a signal issue. If it was a hardware issue limiting speed the closer you got to the router the less improvement in speed. I find for example my older 2008 White Macbook with the plastic case getting much better speeds averaging 100 to 120Mbps. This is basically why Apple cannot address this issues that well because the antenna orientation and design are the problems.

Antennagate?

Jul 13, 2012 6:29 PM in response to jjhuopa

I tought I would let everyone know. I just got my rMBP and same issue with dropping pings. Again does seem to affect much, but still very unsettelling that pings get dropped with a large transfer on a wireless network....


Oh so you know, I`m sitting right next to my AirPort Extreme Base station and transfering from it as well..

Jul 14, 2012 7:01 AM in response to yozhbk

yozhbk wrote:


I tought I would let everyone know. I just got my rMBP and same issue with dropping pings. Again does seem to affect much, but still very unsettelling that pings get dropped with a large transfer on a wireless network....


Oh so you know, I`m sitting right next to my AirPort Extreme Base station and transfering from it as well..

Then use a cable, it's much much faster.

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