Upgraded to 10.6.7 and wifi problem is back

its so frustrating to get that situation back again and again ..

my last "successfull" approach was installing the last combo-update .. i also tried that extention-way but to no good .. so fixing permissions by the disktool , reinstalling latest upgrade and eventually PRAM-reset only helps for some time ..

today it happend during an active-network connection .. the Wireless-icon showed everything fine , but no working layer3 ..

i really hope Apple would take this serious soon .. i heard this issue from many people , but at the mac-store they still have no idea about it / never heard .. .. 😟

i can confirm that here .. periodically :-)

I am curious: I ONLY have the issue at school. I do not know what we use for the wireless there, but I can guarantee is is NOT an Apple product.

Here, at my house, I use an Airport Extreme and I have NEVER had any connectivity issues on the laptop/iPad I bring back and forth each day.

Could others please confirm that you are using a wireless router other than an Apple one?

Perhaps that would help narrow down the issue (?).

FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7113 Annex A :: Firmware-Version 90.04.82

I can confirm this:

When I had this issue I had two wireless routers in close range of my MacBook Pro - one was a Belkin N+ router and the other was an Apple Time Capsule (with built-in dual band Airport Extreme). It did not matter which router was connected, this problem was continuous. The problem went away when I shut off the Belkin router and used only the Time Capsule.

I also have a different Belkin pre-N router some distance away, a weak but useable signal at the location of my MacBook. It is still turned on, and does not appear to be related to this issue. I do not have a pre-N wifi adapter any more, so this pre-N router is essentially a g-class router.

i have used 3 different routers, the problem stared when we upgrade to 10.6.7

independently of the routers

you suggest us to buy an Airport Extreme or some product of Apple because there's a problem with their "loco"upgrade for the system in our computers???

I would agree that the problem started with the upgrade to 10.6.7, and that the evidence points to an issue in the Apple software.

I don't think sha sinclair was suggesting we buy Apple routers - only that if it is true that the problem happens only with non-Apple routers, it may help Apple get to a resolution.

Perhaps if you specified which "3 different routers" you are using, that might be a more helpful response?

btw, I switched to an Apple Time Capsule not because of the router - it was because of poor Time Machine support from a competitor - the Buffalo Linkstation quad.

The wireless circuity in that FRITZ!Box only supports 802.11g. That means it is ancient - up to 8 years old. Get yourself a decent 802.11n router and connect it via the LAN port. Your problems will likely go away. If not, see if you can get rid of the FRITZ!Box entirely.

I have a similarly interesting problem...

I have a Cisco Linksys WRV210 router on my network, and after installing 10.6.7 I am being told I am using a Self-assigned IP address, which I know I am not - the computer is talking to and drawing from the router's DHCP server, yet I cannot access websites via Safari, Chrome - nor FTP sites via Cyberduck.

I can, however, view all the resources on my network, RDP into my Windows Server (conntect to websites via Chrome on the server), and even play WoW on MBP which I cannot connect to websites on...

I have plugged the MBP directly in to my modem - it works; I have plugged a supplimentary router into my network - it reads the DHCP fine and connects me to the internet...

I have also tired all of the suggestions given above (yes all of them) - I have updated my router's firmware to the latest release - and yet I cannot get my MBP to work with my router since installing 10.6.7... this is a problem becuase it is my work router [small business owner] and my home router too (live above my business) - and I chose the router for certain functionality... I cannot be replacing a router all willy-nilly - nor can I wait for Apple to resolve this issue [my MBP is also my work computer].

I seriously don't want to reinstall OS 10.6.3 [discs I have] either... becuase then I have to reinstall the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, etc...

Please, for the love of Zeus, does someone have any ideas?

I am merely trying to remove variables so that (hopefully) Apple can help us all out... I noticed a pattern in my issues and sought information from all of you which would either confirm what I am seeing or tell me I'm barking up the wrong tree.

thats a very pointless argument ... "old standards are no more supported" x-D .. well i can install linux on that hardware and have no problem with older standards !? haha ... nonono .. i wont buy an Apple-router just because Apple is to lame to get this bug under control ;-p

has everybody on this thread already dropped a /feedback on this issue ? i guess the forums are not really monitored by apple-support .. so i suggest linking a feedback to this thread .. massively ;-)

trueshanti wrote:

thats a very pointless argument ... "old standards are no more supported" x-D .. well i can install linux on that hardware and have no problem with older standards !? haha ... nonono .. i wont buy an Apple-router just because Apple is to lame to get this bug under control

The old standards are still supported. The problem is your router that likely doesn't even support the old standards properly. You don't have to buy an Apple router. Just go to the nearest computer/office store and buy the cheapest router on the shelf.

If you need to use Linux to use your 8 year-old busted router, by all means so do.

has everybody on this thread already dropped a /feedback on this issue ? i guess the forums are not really monitored by apple-support .. so i suggest linking a feedback to this thread .. massively ;-)

No one ever said the forums were monitored by Apple support. In fact, just the opposite is true. These forums provide user-to-user technical support. Apple does not read them or participate at all.

as you also may have noticed: this thread cares about issues with wireless-connections since a certain software-release .. i have my MB since 2008 and also with the actual router, there have never been connectivity-issues before upgrading to 10.6.7 .. also all my other devices have no issues with the current setup .. can mean that those devices are smart enough to handle this "o-so-outdated"-router ... in fact only MB has that issues .. not my iphone , not my other laptops , not my printer .. just the MB .. so what does that say ? right -> MB-issue since 10.6.7 ( and accordingly to all mentioned feedbacks its also not a hardware-issue )

Did you have all of those devices in 2008? And did your neighbors? Does the problem magically go away if you roll back to an earlier build?

The downside of these forums is that they often serve to give positive reinforcement to misinformation. Your comments sound identical to what people have been saying on the iPad forum for a year. The answer there is the same as the answer here. Why suffer with your $1000 device when a $30 upgrade will fix it?