Q: Wifi Constantly Dropping in Lion

Do you two work for Apple Support perchance? (btw that's rhetorical)

I can easily justify my words still by saying that their Support is as good as the weakest link. This chap has failed me and that means the whole support organisation has failed me.

You have your opinion of their support and I have mine..... Now can we move on to a more technical subject please.

I wasn't talking about their support.

I was talking about your abuse of common english syntax.

Such pedantry has no place on a technical forum.

You are the one who defended yourself by claiming I (and "the rest of us") knew that when you said "they" you actually meant "he" (or she).

You were asking for a little pedantry.

Well at least you admit it.

And in any case, complaining about Apple's support has no more place in this forum than explaining to you how the english language works.

This forum is about helping other users solve technical issues. Complaining about Apple solves no one's issue.

Hi All,

Juts installed the wifi patch and still having it drop out.

oliviazsun the workflow you outlined didn't work when the Apple tech walked me through it, and still doesn't. This is getting very frustrating so another call to Apple to see whats the next stage... perhaps I should have brought an MacBok instead of this pain.... had an 11 year old iBook the only issue was I couldn't update the OS so went the iMac route I'd beenbetter off keeping the iBook... apologies ******** juts had enough now want to throw the iMac through a window just like you would a MS OS PC thing...

A 2011 MacBook Pro wouldn't have helped you. That's what I have and I've suffered frequent drop outs too.

thats interesting, I just thought it was iMac related. I should sleep better tonight knowing the choice I made wouldn't have made a difference to my current frustrations

Serously thanks for the insight...

Sure thing.... and if you want to read more of my situation then read my detailed post I made here a couple of days back......... try not to read the ridiculous comments that follow it though as they don't help anybody.

WSR wrote:

 

..... try not to read the ridiculous comments that follow it though as they don't help anybody.

Lol says the kettle.

@Baron

There have been a lot of proposed solutions to this problem, some of which seemed to have helped some people, while others (like me) are still stuck dealing with drop outs.

If you jump back to page 73 in this forum (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190651?start=1050&tstart=0) you'll see a post by me that links to a couple dozen possible fixes I've personally tried. Maybe one of them will work for you.

Grow up.

Hey everyone,

I followed oliviazsun's workaround and it seems to have fixed the network dropping problem for me.  It's been 2 days now and my computer has yet to drop the network, but I still have my fingers crossed.  Before I did the suggested workaround my iMac was dropping my home network approximately hourly, which was a big pain in the behind as I often need to remotely access my computer from school.  Upon restart my computer now automatically joins the home network without issue.  My sympathies for all those who cannot get this to work.  I understand how frustrating that can be.  To reiterate, here is oliviazsun's workaround:

"1. Renew DHCP Lease

System Pref -> Network -> Select Wi-Fi -> Advanced -> TCP/IP tab -> Click Renew DHCP Lease

http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/06/lion-wi-fi-problems-solution-mac/ - found a supporting article for this

2. Removing all preferred networks:

a) Back to Advanced screen, Wi-fi tab, remove all entries in "Preferred Networks" window -> OK and then Apply

b) go to KeyChain, remove your wi-fi network's password entry.

c) reapply the wi-fi fix and re-start, re-join my wi-fi network."

I hate to add my own 2 cents to the above bickering, but I believe such banter really detracts from the usefullness of this support forum.  This is a user-to-user forum, and this particular thread is evidently already difficult to navigate.  We are all in the same boat, and this is not the place for passing judgement on Apple Support.  Instead, if you would like to submit feedback on your Support experiences, wether they be good or bad, I suggest checking this out instead:  http://www.apple.com/support/feedback/

Thanks, and good luck everyone!

unexpected workaround for me: leave Activity Monitor /  Network running

like many here I had wifi dropping randomly, especially, but not exclusively, after sleep... of course iphone, ipad, other macs have no problem

i tried many solutions/workarounds: new leases, killing preferred, beacon shortening,  power button wake, 1.0 "fix" etc.

nothing worked and i had given up and resigned to waiting for Mountain Lion when I happened to leave Activity Monitor running overnight... wifi stayed connected and has ever since (48 hours)... i'm afraid to quit it....

hope this helps somebody else

imac 27" mid-2010

OSX 10.7.3

medialink WAPR-150N

I just read an interesting article. http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2012/02/18/what-the-fbi-internet-dns-shutdown- means-to-you.htm