LaraJones
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Q: 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

by LaraJones,Solvedanswer
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Good morning,

Needed a moment to find my thread...the new structure...if there is any at all left is not very comfy to find your way around her in the support forum, I find....

 

News from my side....

Back home in Bavaria, back in our 32 MB Net. MacBook does not drop connection not on Bootcamp not on Mac OS Becuase of the strong link. if you look on the wireless symbol everything looks fine.

BUT

- Doing the ping test shows same horrible result like everywhere else before. Ping is going up and down, shows tomeouts.

-Downloads are very very slow considering our net speed.

-Streaming absolute NOT possible.

 

My old Fujitsu T4215 and all the other Wndows Mashines my husband uses in our net are working without any kind of problems...but we know this already, don't we????

 

I was visiting our local Apple supplier yesterday, with the paperworks about the work which was done on my MacBook in Melbourne, change of Networkcars, wihtout any change to the better.

 

Her suggested to call apple and tell them to change the logiboard next and so I did!!!! On Monday I will bring my MacBook to the apple store. Than it gets send in and I have to live ten days wihtout it.... fantastic....

 

Will keep your informed if it helps....I have got my doubts BUT what wcan we do...

Posted on Apr 16, 2011 10:03 PM

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  • by OrinocoDelta,

    OrinocoDelta OrinocoDelta Jul 5, 2011 3:19 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 5, 2011 3:19 AM in response to LaraJones

    Hey Dude´s...

     

    I buyed my MacBookPro8,2 i7 in February this year and have (only sometimes) Ping and Wireless Problems.

    I called Apple Support, went to Genius Bar and so on - no really help or solution´s.

     

    I changed my FritzBox 7290 to an Airport Extreme and it seems to solve the problem - but only for several days.

    At Hotspots in Bars or Cafes everything seems to work fine - include the Ping Times....

     

    But i think the Problem maybe something else - so please checkit on your own ;-)

     

    I have Little Snitch or HandsOff running on my System since the beginning - and the wireless dropping stopped since i uninstalled this two applications - on 10.6.8 and now on 10.7 GM i run only HandsOff (but well defined rules) and TATA no no no more wireless dropping or dropping connections.

     

    My Ping is also fine.... so what do you think about the software firewall things?

  • by RegisTN,

    RegisTN RegisTN Jul 5, 2011 8:10 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 5, 2011 8:10 AM in response to LaraJones

    I have the same problem. My 2 iPhone 4 and a Windows PC 10" connect to wifi normally, but Macbook Pro doesn't.

  • by jay warren,

    jay warren jay warren Jul 5, 2011 8:15 PM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 5, 2011 8:15 PM in response to LaraJones

    I've read this somewhere in this site:  Try to disable your IPv6.

        Network/Airport/Advanced/TCP/Configure IPv6 =Off

     

    It worked for me.

  • by RegisTN,

    RegisTN RegisTN Jul 5, 2011 11:29 PM in response to jay warren
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    Jul 5, 2011 11:29 PM in response to jay warren

    Thanks Jay! As soon as I'll be at home I will try! I will let u know! Thank u again!

  • by RegisTN,

    RegisTN RegisTN Jul 6, 2011 11:44 PM in response to jay warren
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    Jul 6, 2011 11:44 PM in response to jay warren

    Unfortunately for me it wasn't work for me!

  • by msm msm,

    msm msm msm msm Jul 8, 2011 4:59 AM in response to RegisTN
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    Jul 8, 2011 4:59 AM in response to RegisTN

    Don´t give up...

    none of that stuff worked for me either... I spent hours working on the router setup...

    turned off IPv6, turned only the 5 gz frequency on... moved the position of the AE... nothing worked... except  the 10.6.8 update.  And now i´ve got a real stable connection.

     

    Really, my 2011 MBP is really working great. (1 month ago I didn´t think I´d write that.) 

    I just did a ping test and lost no packages... (it used to loose so many packages...)

     

    I haven´t tested it on another network... and my network is with Airport Extreme and an Airport Express as a repeater.  So... I may still have a suprise at a coffee shop... But for now, thats it for me.

    Best of luck.

  • by mfwells,

    mfwells mfwells Jul 8, 2011 5:55 AM in response to msm msm
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    Jul 8, 2011 5:55 AM in response to msm msm

    Hey msm msm...

     

    Your "ping test" ... what were you pinging when you saw lost packets?

     

    1.  Router or other device on your local 'net; or

     

    2.  Something (like google.com or apple.com) in the cloud?

     

    Personally haven't tried a ping test here to see what's going on, suppose I should.

     

    I am running 10.6.8 and still experiencing problems same flakey behavior as before.

  • by RegisTN,

    RegisTN RegisTN Jul 8, 2011 8:09 AM in response to msm msm
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    Jul 8, 2011 8:09 AM in response to msm msm

    Sorry, but I already have OS 10.6.8.

    I hope with OS Lion everything is gonna be fixed!

  • by simonmacbouk,

    simonmacbouk simonmacbouk Jul 9, 2011 8:25 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 9, 2011 8:25 AM in response to LaraJones

    PLEASE APPLE FIX THAT PROBLEM!!!!!

     

    I'm having the same issues since I bought my MBP in march 2011. Someday I only lose it a couple of times and somedays it's horrible!!! I'm really hoping Lion will fix that... I can't believe apple is ignoring us... this is my first mac and I'm thinking it might be my last...

  • by Sielk,

    Sielk Sielk Jul 9, 2011 9:42 PM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 9, 2011 9:42 PM in response to LaraJones

    Hate to do a "me too" post but I am having the same issue.  I thought I was having network issues with my router and started doing test with my other macs in the house.  All work great except for my new MBP.  I get dropped packets, long ping times, and overall very poor performance on wireless with the new MBP.

  • by noahfrommissoula,

    noahfrommissoula noahfrommissoula Jul 10, 2011 12:21 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 10, 2011 12:21 AM in response to LaraJones

    Greetings, all:

     

    Welcome to our unhappy club. I'm sorry I can't chime in with some good advice on how to fix this. I've just posted a second time on Apple's feedback forum. I encourage you all to do this. I'll be back in the States soon and am just hoping that apple will replace my computer. It's caused a lot of headaches.

     

    See http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html

     

    Good luck,

    Noah

  • by msm msm,

    msm msm msm msm Jul 11, 2011 12:36 AM in response to mfwells
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    Jul 11, 2011 12:36 AM in response to mfwells

    hey mfwells,

    Sorry to hear about the problem persisting even with the 10.6.8 update.  It worked for me.

    Although I live outside of the states and this may be a variable that is different to your case.

    To answer your question:

    I could ping anything... and I would loose so many packages... the connection would be lost... I had nothing but headaches.  I am a little afraid of upgrading to Lion... could cause a setback for me.

    Its definitely a software problem and most likely will be fixed with some update or Lion. I wish you the best.

  • by Sielk,

    Sielk Sielk Jul 11, 2011 1:04 PM in response to LaraJones
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    Jul 11, 2011 1:04 PM in response to LaraJones

    Trying to read through this massive post and figure out if people think this is a software issue or hardware.  I am taking my MBP in tonight and if this is hardware related I am going to ask them to fix this (along with the hard drive that failed on me last night).

  • by mfwells,

    mfwells mfwells Jul 11, 2011 2:21 PM in response to Sielk
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    Jul 11, 2011 2:21 PM in response to Sielk

    Sielk,

     

    99.99% says it's software. Used to work fine on older releases of OSX, back in 10.4 and possibly 10.5 days. Problems started cropping up with 10.6 era software, and seems to be limited to the MBP series of hardware. Other computers, Macs, iMacs, Macbooks, etc. running 10.6 x  not experiencing these problems.

  • by yozhbk,

    yozhbk yozhbk Jul 11, 2011 2:30 PM in response to mfwells
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    Jul 11, 2011 2:30 PM in response to mfwells

    Please do not confuse topics and inter people. This topic is specific to the issues we are having on Early 2011 MBP not any other machines or releases. This very well is possible to be a hardware issue and not a software one, I`m assuming this is the case as we had over 3 updates now. We havent heard from any one here that have new iMACs with same basic cards so I`m assuming it is isolated to the Early 2011 MBPs. Again to show how this is just related to that line, start a file transfer on a local network while connected to the N at 450 and have a ping going at the same time you will see the drops and will see a specific issue. This is all related with disconnects/drops etc.....

     

    Thank you and have a great day.

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