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 jamlid,

    jamlid jamlid Feb 24, 2012 8:03 AM in response to yozhbk
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    Feb 24, 2012 8:03 AM in response to yozhbk

    What I generally find is that while the single transfer session remains speeds and stable, any other connections are affected by the web browsing. For example, when my Time Machine backup kicks in, internet browsing becomes 90% unusable. It's the same with file transfers.

     

    I'm not sure if they'll raise bugs in-store as I know they're always really busy, but I'll book another visit in once I've done some more testing.

  • by amandepp,

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

  • by black6,

    black6 black6 Feb 29, 2012 7:19 AM in response to LaraJones
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    Feb 29, 2012 7:19 AM in response to LaraJones

    I will never use the internal MBP wi-fi again after purchasing and installing the tiny little ASUS N-10 USB dongle... Works flawlessly and just proves how unreliable Apple's own wifi really is.

     

    Thanks for the heads up in previous posts, sad we have to resort to PC companies to make things work as they should.

  • by GreenTape,

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

  • by the weatherman,

    the weatherman the weatherman Apr 11, 2012 3:15 PM in response to amandepp
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    Apr 11, 2012 3:15 PM in response to amandepp

    Thanks amandepp!

     

    Same problem, same solution as above. Worked flawlessly!

     

    Try it for those having the same problem.

  • by Soyla Libertad,

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

  • by appleadvice,

    appleadvice appleadvice Apr 23, 2012 7:27 PM in response to Soyla Libertad
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    Apr 23, 2012 7:27 PM in response to Soyla Libertad

    Its not a Mac and PC thing.  PC and Macs use the same wifi cards and technology.  Most of the time its just a bad location thats causing the problem.  If thats the case you should get a wifi signal booster.  With one of these you can get a much larger signal range and eliminate the problem.

  • by John Scott1,

    John Scott1 John Scott1 Apr 28, 2012 7:59 AM in response to appleadvice
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    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.

  • by jjhuopa,

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

  • by yozhbk,

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

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Jul 14, 2012 7:01 AM in response to yozhbk
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    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.

  • by yozhbk,

    yozhbk yozhbk Jul 14, 2012 7:05 AM in response to Csound1
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    Jul 14, 2012 7:05 AM in response to Csound1

    Very smart comment ! You know I meant when testing right ?

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Jul 14, 2012 7:15 AM in response to yozhbk
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    Jul 14, 2012 7:15 AM in response to yozhbk

    You did not specify that, transfer was the word you used.

  • by yozhbk,

    yozhbk yozhbk Jul 14, 2012 7:17 AM in response to Csound1
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    Jul 14, 2012 7:17 AM in response to Csound1

    Did you read the thread ? Its all in here, this is like my grandmother coming in the middle of conversation and starts taking. If you have no idea what we are saying then please read from start...

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Jul 14, 2012 7:30 AM in response to yozhbk
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    Jul 14, 2012 7:30 AM in response to yozhbk

    You speak to your Grandmother like that? shame on you!

     

    Continue testing

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