Q: Lion WiFi Connection Problem

Poor wife has spent hours on the phone to apple support with this issue... No fix so far.

Replace the router and still the same:-(

Got to be an issue with Atheros 9280 & Lion.

If they tell me it is interferance once more I will get very angry! I have 6 other devices  (Including 2 Apple products) that stay connected rock solid and they are 2-3 times the distance away

I hope that it will be fixed at the 12th Oktober....10.7.2 Update!

Jan23 wrote:

 

I hope that it will be fixed at the 12th Oktober....10.7.2 Update!

That update wont fix it.

We had some reports here from people who had updatet to golden master with no success.

The problem is'nt in your Lion ....

Lupunus

Lupunus, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has spent $60 or $70 on a new router that they didn't need to because you won't stop misleading people who don't know any better. You're not helping.

What model of computer is it having the problems on? It happens to my MBP, which has a Broadcom wifi card in it.

hormelmeatcompany wrote:

 

Lupunus, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has spent $60 or $70 on a new router that they didn't need to because you won't stop misleading people who don't know any better. You're not helping.

I've NEVER advised one to buy a new router!

Additionally, I'm not misleading anyone. I'm writing about possible reasons, solutions and advise at least to perform a clear troubleshoot.

Don't mix up your own disability to read, understand and solve your wireless issue with my postings.

Lupunus

"I'm writing about possible reasons, solutions and advise at least to perform a clear troubleshoot."

That's what several of us have done, and rather thoroughly. Your advice that it's not the machine or the OS and is instead the "network configuration" very well could lead someone to buy something that they don't need to.

"Don't mix up your own disability to solve your wireless issue with my postings."

I know enough about how all of this stuff works that your postings won't confuse me. But for the many others who don't know? Your posts are making things more difficult for them.

I think the problem is in the Lion, because some people have this trouble since Lion!

EW

You may have said this already but I can't find the answer in all the pages of postings.

Have you tried a clean install of Lion?

I ask this because I just helped a friend that did an upgrade from Snow Leopard and his wifi went wonky. But we backed everything up to an external (a second backup so we still had the one from Snow Leopard just before the upgrade) and then we wiped the drive and did a clean install. First thing we checked was his wifi. It was still down but we were able to go into Airport Utility and set it back up no hitches. Then we brought over just his data so we didn't put any potentially screwed up prefs etc back into the system.

Two weeks and no issues so far.

If you haven't tried this I would say give it a whirl. You might want to test it by making a partition on the computer and installing Lion in that and seeing if it works. If it does then you can delete that partition and do the same for the full partition.

How recently did you try a reinstall? I tried that around early August and it didn't work, but things may have changed recently.

Since you are sooooo smart that you know the problem isn't Lion why don't you just tell everyone what the problem is and how to fix it.

Oops, maybe you aren't that smart after all. Because in 70 pages you have just been posting "It isn't Lion" over and over without any solution.

Like I said, two weeks ago

The problem is and isn't in Lion. At least for some folks.

Everytime Apple does a major update one key focus is making Wifi more efficient and more secure. This means that sometimes they change up how the OS handles wifi. Old configuration files etc from previous OSes, especially if you skip one (say migrate an old tiger or Leopard system over to a new Lion machine) can make things go wonky. Which is why a clean install and manually bringing over major data works for some

Lion may also have dropped support for older security protocols that some older modems use. Generally this is done because the protocols has been hacked or just wasn't really that good to begin with and better ones have come out. But the modem needs an update and sometimes it is so old that the manufacturer didn't and won't bother. So a new modem is needed. Sometimes just the wifi side of it, sometimes the cable/dsl as well. Fortunately for many of us, a call to our ISP to drop service because it's not working anymore will get us newer equipment to try and see if that fixes it. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it needs both new equipment and a clean install or at least a clean user

Do you think I can put it right, when I reinstall Lion?

I have a Mac OS leopard in an old machine that sits on my "home office" room, which I'll just call "server". It has all media (photos, music, videos) and files that are shared to my MBP and for my wife's MBAir, not to mention iPad, IPhone, and Apple TV, and time machine that runs in this server.

I normally use "share screen" feature to control some activities that run on the server remotely. Before Lion upgrade, it was really straightforward, connect to the ASUS RT-13N wireless, and in seconds the server would appear under shares on the left hand side of finder window. Just click on it and them in share screen and I was controlling the remote server.

After Lion upgrade in my MBP, it stopped working. The server don't appear as a share anymore. 

After a long session of troubleshooting, things that I discovered:

- my wife's MBAir still in Snow Leopard and the sharing works as always worked with ASUS  wireless;

- if I use a wired connection with ASUS, the share works just fine in my Lion MBP 

- if I connect my MBP using a secondary wireless router I have for coverage purposes (D-Link DIR-825) the share works just fine as well

I've tried every possible wireless configuration within ASUS, including copy every advanced setting from the D-Link router, removing security, but nothing worked.

So for me is pretty clear that Lion has an issue with ASUS wireless, and based on all the forums I've been during troubleshooting, probably it is not only with ASUS, but seem a major issue with wireless in Lion.

So Apple, what's the plan?