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Since upgrading my Fall 2009 21.5" iMac to Lion my wifi connection will drop out about every minute and the I have to turn Wifi off and then back on to get it to connect again. Is there any known way to fix this? Any suggestions will be appreciated
Thanks
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
Well clearly there is something seriously amiss with Lion and no doubt Apple is finding it extremely difficult to locate the problem. However, I do think Apple have an obligation to its customers. I've got a brand 'new' (2011) imac and the wi-fi problem has been with me from day 1. I too did everything Apple support told me to do but no go. Short of installing 40 feet of ethernet cable from the router, I'm stuck with the dropouts.
Bill
Thank you very much for the tip, resetting the SMC did the trick. It works great since, without any drops from WiFi
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Zohar Blau wrote:
Thank you very much for the tip, resetting the SMC did the trick. It works great since, without any drops from WiFi
🙂
It hasn't gone... it's just resting.
Never mind, let it rest....if I need to repeat the procedure once a week or so I'm OK with that. Before it was terrible, every several minutes or so it was dropping...
I hope they will find a permanent fix for that though.
Okay, how do you reset the smc, also where do you find it?
Thanks
georgefromcoffeyville wrote:
Okay, how do you reset the smc, also where do you find it?
Thanks
Had zero effect for me, but who knows.....
It was posted here on this thread.
How you reset depends on the hardware you own.
I have a Mac Mini, so the solution instructed on the KB you posted said I need to shut down, take out the power cord for 15 secs, put it back for 5 more and power back on.
It worked fine for me 🙂
It was posted here on this thread.
I have a Mac Mini, so the solution instructed on the KB you posted said I need to shut down, take out the power cord for 15 secs, put it back for 5 more and power back on.
It worked fine for me 🙂
I've found a fix! Not sure this will solve everyone's issue but for me it did. My iPads and iPhones were constantly droppping the network and then were "unable to join" even after resets, power cycles, and forgetting the network.. I am using an apple extreme (gen 2) router and I adjusted the WPA/WPA2 group key to expire every week. It was previously set to 1 hour and since moving it to 7 days, no issues on any wireless device. Hope this helps!
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WBOWLES
Skip the cable ... all 40 feet of it. It will make no difference. My Mac Pro is only 10 feet from my router and connected with Internet-hardwired (RJ-45 terminated) cable.
It suffers from the same problem as every Lion-based Mac, including my WiFi connected MacBook.
I actually disconnected the cable to see if the Mac Pro would perform any better with WiFi. NOPE! Problem persisted.
Big Red Dog wrote:
WBOWLES
Skip the cable ... all 40 feet of it. It will make no difference. My Mac Pro is only 10 feet from my router and connected with Internet-hardwired (RJ-45 terminated) cable.
It suffers from the same problem as every Lion-based Mac, including my WiFi connected MacBook.
I actually disconnected the cable to see if the Mac Pro would perform any better with WiFi. NOPE! Problem persisted.
Did you turn you WIFI hardware off? Depending on priorities of the interfaces, it still may have just been using WIFI even with the ethernet connected.
I haven't wired it yet. I think I'll just have to live with the turning the wi-fi off and and on every now and again until they find a fix, if they ever do. Aren't they running out of big cats? Maybe the next 'upgrade' will be called Moggy or maybe Felix?
wbowles wrote:
I haven't wired it yet. I think I'll just have to live with the turning the wi-fi off and and on every now and again until they find a fix, if they ever do. Aren't they running out of big cats? Maybe the next 'upgrade' will be called Moggy or maybe Felix?
My early 2011 macbook Pro just started having the wifi dropping problem after a recent EFI Firmware update.
FIX FOR WIF DROPS:
Guys i had this problem in both iMac (mid 2009) and Macbook air (2011) i've just tried all the solution and now i found the only that REALLY WORKS!
it's easy just follow this:
http://rys.pixeltards.com/2011/09/04/osx-lion-wifi.html
THIS JUST WORK
You have to reinstall Snow leopard wifi driver into Lion.
It worked on my iMac and Macbook air.
No more drops.
bye
Wifi Constantly Dropping in Lion
