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 Power.User,

    Power.User Power.User Aug 19, 2011 5:49 AM in response to StephTizio
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    Aug 19, 2011 5:49 AM in response to StephTizio

    I think "b) they can't figure out how to fix it" is the answer.

    There are also tons of threads like this about iPads randmoly dropping off from WiFi.

    This is becoming an interesting part of 'history'. I can imagine reading a Wikipedia article about this years later.

  • by cancervive,

    cancervive cancervive Aug 19, 2011 4:04 PM in response to LaraJones
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    Aug 19, 2011 4:04 PM in response to LaraJones

    Not sure if anyone has tried the update that was mentioned a few pages ago to 10.7.1, but I just did and it fixed all my wireless woes. I was using the ping trick before on my 2010 MBP and it greatly increased my connection, although, bought brand new 2011 yesterday, and just updated, and it's working great. More should try this to see if this is Apple's attempt at making this right.

  • by jef_512,

    jef_512 jef_512 Aug 20, 2011 3:15 AM in response to cancervive
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    Aug 20, 2011 3:15 AM in response to cancervive

    installed the fix hours after it was released but still having the same problem..

  • by yozhbk,

    yozhbk yozhbk Aug 20, 2011 8:14 PM in response to jef_512
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    Aug 20, 2011 8:14 PM in response to jef_512

    Installed 10.7.1, now regular pings seem  better on 2.4ghz on 5Ghz still bad, but even on 2.4GHz file transfer looks pretty bad.

     

     

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  • by grey33ad,

    grey33ad grey33ad Aug 21, 2011 2:04 PM in response to LaraJones
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    Aug 21, 2011 2:04 PM in response to LaraJones

    Has anyone bought a mini-usb wifi dongle to get around this issue?  Buying something like http://www.amazon.com/AirLink101-AWLL5088-Wireless-Ultra-Adapter/dp/B003X26PMO/r ef=pd_sim_e_2 

    may be a lot cheaper and a better solution than trying to buy new routers.  If it workds you would get to use it anywhere too.

  • by PhotoPippi,

    PhotoPippi PhotoPippi Aug 22, 2011 9:15 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Aug 22, 2011 9:15 AM in response to LaraJones

    Hi,

     

    What about using a cable whenever possible. with wireless networks you can with a 50Mb / s maximum under good reception conditions "only" get 30Mb/s trougput and it's not much if you have 1000Mb/s wired network where you can theoretically get up to 700Mb / s.

    This does not excuse the wireless network does not work, but I always use ethernet cable whenever possible.

     

    Ib

  • by jef_512,

    jef_512 jef_512 Aug 22, 2011 9:56 AM in response to PhotoPippi
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    Aug 22, 2011 9:56 AM in response to PhotoPippi

    yeah that's always an option.. although it defeats the purpose of having a laptop and being portable if it's always attached to a cable..

  • by cancervive,

    cancervive cancervive Aug 22, 2011 3:41 PM in response to LaraJones
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    Aug 22, 2011 3:41 PM in response to LaraJones

    yeah that's always an option.. although it defeats the purpose of having a laptop and being portable if it's always attached to a cable..

     

    not to mention puts unnecessary stress on your ethernet port if you're not sitting in a position where the cable has strain relief.

  • by PhotoPippi,

    PhotoPippi PhotoPippi Aug 23, 2011 3:09 AM in response to cancervive
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    Aug 23, 2011 3:09 AM in response to cancervive

    When it comes to stress a network so it is more devastating to have "slow" devices that must continually retransmit the data packets and your wireless access point is also connected to the local network so that problems here will also have a efekt on overall performance.

     

    My choice of network wireless / wired depends on the task I need to solve is it á large amounts of data do I always chouse wired network if it is just a little surfing on the Internet that is perfectly fine with wireless, but I still choose wired network if I anyway is close to a fixed wire connection I would rather drive 500MB/s over 30Mb/s.

     

    Sincerely,

    Ib

  • by Power.User,

    Power.User Power.User Aug 23, 2011 5:27 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Aug 23, 2011 5:27 AM in response to LaraJones

    Replaced my router (Trendnet TEW639 GR)with a 2TB Time Capsule last night and started wireless backup over night.

     

    Next morning, only 20 GB out of 300 GB has been backed up while my wife's MBP went through all 300 GB backup.

     

    If it was my wife's computer having this wireless issues, it would have been much tougher situation.

     

    So, even after replacing the router, problem persists. There seem to be still a lot of lost packets.

  • by yRuS!,

    yRuS! yRuS! Aug 24, 2011 9:47 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Aug 24, 2011 9:47 AM in response to LaraJones

    you morons at apple... if you are not able to fix the issue atleast acknowledge that the issue exists!!!! i've been seeing this post for past 2years at various communities and still no dedicated fix.. no wonder serious business customers prefer windows over apple..

     

    -yRuS!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Aug 24, 2011 9:55 AM in response to yRuS!
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    Aug 24, 2011 9:55 AM in response to yRuS!

    yRuS! wrote:

     

    you morons at apple... if you are not able to fix the issue atleast acknowledge that the issue exists!!!! i've been seeing this post for past 2years at various communities and still no dedicated fix.. no wonder serious business customers prefer windows over apple..

     

    -yRuS!

     

    Why don't you contact Apple and tell them of their moronic status, we are just fellow Apple users, like you.

     

    Here's a link to help you: Send Feedback to Apple

  • by yRuS!,

    yRuS! yRuS! Aug 24, 2011 10:11 AM in response to Csound1
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    Aug 24, 2011 10:11 AM in response to Csound1

    Thanks for the link @Csound1.. just submitted a feedback. Frankly I'm not hopeful about anything changing... only thing that wonders me is, how come Mr.Jobs is happy with such a crappy machine... oh is it because he uses Windows 7?

     

    -yRuS!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Aug 24, 2011 10:16 AM in response to yRuS!
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    Aug 24, 2011 10:16 AM in response to yRuS!

    I'm happy to help, but I have to add that I have had no issues at all with Lion, sorry your experience has not been the same.

  • by yRuS!,

    yRuS! yRuS! Aug 24, 2011 10:24 AM in response to Csound1
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    Aug 24, 2011 10:24 AM in response to Csound1

    I'm still on Snow Leopard.. actually upgrading to the Lion is the one ******* me off... I tried to download it and everything it gets interrupted due to network loss and the so called Lion resume somehow doesn't work for me may be i shud use a LAN cable to do it..

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