Q: Lion WiFi Connection Problem

So I made the plunge and downgraded to Snow Leopard.  Question?  Now that my iphone and my mobile me accounts have been switched over to iCloud how do I keep my ical and contacts synced on SL?

I have been following this thread and have been having the same problem as you all....Ie losing the wifi with no apparent reason since downloading the invincable Lion......I just dont get one thing.... where is Apple? what does it take to get some sort of answer..... after all, they have a whole campus of experts who fix this sort of thing for a living.... I am a total apple fan, but this is disappointning......

yrfromprestwich wrote:

 

I have been following this thread and have been having the same problem as you all....Ie losing the wifi with no apparent reason since downloading the invincable Lion.

Except from rant and crying "Apple do something", what have you done to solve your issue?

Dear Lupunus,

with respect i dont believe i was ranting.... forgive me if it seemed i was.... I do have one issue with your suggestion.....I spent a large amount of money recently to buy a new Imac... I downloaded Lion as was suggested...something on said product is obviously not in order.... why is it out of the realm of possibility to ask the provider of this program to find a fix? where on my reciept does it say I have to solve any issues?

Hello,

It seems to be the longest thread on the zillion of posts and forums over the internet trying to find a solution to this issue.

I´ve tried EVERY solution in this thread and in other threads over the internet and I am not able to solve this permanently. I still dont mess to much with my router config since IMHO it does not seems to be the problem.

I have a Late 2009 iMac (10,1) and have recently installed Lion 10.7.2 without any problem since installation. works beautifully..... BUT....

I have also a white Macbook mid 2010 (7,1) with broadcom wifi card....and its a disaster since the Lion upgrade.

I read a few pages before something that I didn`t tried yet. I turn off the wi fi on my mac (which works ok). and the try to connect the macbook with wi-fi....AND VOILA IT WORKS!!!!, then i just turn back on the wifi on the imac and it seems to work....for now.

Have you even contacted Apple? If not you need to do so at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html as you will only hear from your fellow users here.

> Now that my iphone and my mobile me accounts have been switched over to iCloud how do I keep my ical and contacts synced on SL?

No one I know has found any way to do so.

It seems that I solved the problem permanently.

-My workaround was:

-Delete all wifi passwords on keychain

-delete all previous networks and known networks

- CHANGE ROUTER PASSWORD SETTINGS TO WPA (props to lucciluccilucci in this post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15862249#15862249 )

-CHANGE ROUTER CHANNEL TO 11 (or 13)

-Please note that each router has its own configuration instruction so if you are not familiar with this you may contact your ISP.

I hope it helps. Too "bad" that the workaround is messing with the router settings. Seems like an 10.7.3 update is not likely to solve this issue. We all know how apple behaves with this kind of problem.....they expect that you buy a iRouter or something like that to solve this .

I mean, is the problem is the router....they are very unlikely to solve this for users.

I finally decided to try moving my basestation (original Time Capsule) into the same room as my iMac, which was having dropouts pretty regularly.  The basestation was previously in the basement, and separated from the iMac by 2 floors (although the signal strength still showed 5 bars on the iMac). 

Moving the router has seemed to solve my issue 95%.  I still have about one dropout a week, but things are much better now. None of my other devices on the network (Wii, PS3, iPad, iPhones, Mac Mini) have ever had any strange behavior or dropouts on this network, before or after I moved the router.

I did so some days ago (iMac Mid 2010 Core i3 3,2 Ghz; Router: FritzBox 7270 v3). The wifi-connection has become more stable but the problem still appears 2 or 3 times within an hour. And when the problem appears the kernel-log still says "en1: The BSSID changed to XXX"...

I'm having this exact issue since I had to downgrade back to Snow Leopard.  My ical and contacts are no longer synced and are just empty on my iMac.  I suppose we're just going to have to go through the website to access our information which is frustrating.

Based on my personal experiences in the last couple of month Apple cares a **** about this issue (from my personal point of view)!!!

After trying almost all the different tips and suggestions from this post and Apple`s support-hotline without any permanent success (and I did it in a well-structured way spending about 30 hours over all) I adressed a detailed bug-report via http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html about four weeks ago. And guess what: NO reaction or answer yet... I also sent detailed (links to the different posts on this issue in this community, details from the bug-report I adressed) e-mails on this issue to "All Things Digital" (Hello Walt...), "Mac Rumors" and "heise.de": NO reactions yet... What else can I do?

The funny thing is: In the 15 years I used Windows (from Windows 3.11 to Windows 7) I NEVER had problems which I couldn`t solve within 30 hours of trouble-shooting or where Microsoft didn`t officially announce there is a known issue and they`re working on it... In the case of Mac OS Lion and Wi-Fi I I feel like Don Quixote...

And of course it`s all about user-circumstances: "dtu" (dumbest thinkable user), bad router, bad neighborhood-networks, wrong configuration, bad bluetooth-devices, not seriously trying to solve their problems themselves...

Facts like "no problems when going back to SL", "no problems when working with Windows via Bootcamp" and last but not least "no problems when working with Windows via Parallels" don`t count...

"You won`t find a solution by saying there is no problem" (William Rotsler)

Hi everyone i've been having problems ever since buying a new macbook pro. My imac and my brother's macbook have no problems on the network. I have however found a slight work around which i find intreging. I downloaded a free trial of a program called air radar which, im not sure of exactly what it can all do but if i connect through that i dont get connection timeouts and drop outs. I think it would be good if someone else tried this aproach and see if it works for you then it could prove that its a problem with the wifi conection part of lion (sorry if there's a correct name for it im not really up with the whole techinical side of things).

So yeah if anybody else has tried this or tries this it'd be good to here your results.

Neil

My new remedy: Got a new Dlink router (returned my Trendnet router). The Dlink supports 5ghz ... so far no problems ...

I  replaced my router a month ago and had the same results I have no problem staying connected. I can't believe the soution was so easy.