Q: Lion WiFi Connection Problem

Is that a typo?

Adobe Flash Player version 10.3.183.5
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You mean the version number for Flash?  Well, that´s the version I have installed (10.3.183.5) as verified by this page:  http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Read your post—it says 185.3 not 183.5!

Indeed it does.  Yes, a typo.  Sorry.

Mine did the same. Just update to osx 10.7.1

I have three iMac's running Lion OS and two are functioning normally the third has no internet connectivity at all on the mac side however, the VM (Windows XP) is running like normal! Apple have suggested a total restore of the system - i'm not sure that this will resolve anything - must be a bug that needs urgent attention! the down time has been two weeks!

The 10.7.1 update has definitely not fixed my WiFi connection issue either.  In fact I think it's made it worse. Before I was at least able to get a good 8 hours of connectivity after resetting my router.  Now it drops within an hour.

The other extremely frustrating part is that the Lion issue is affecting my husbands PC laptop as well and my iphone.  If my iMac isn't connected then nothing is.  I have tried every single solution people have posted without resolution. 

I'm not sure who to get on the phone with first, Apple or Verizon because I think we are all aware of the fact that this problem won't be fixed until the software is fixed.  I've been plagued with intermittent connectivity for a month now!

I am also having wifi connection issues ever since upgrading to Lion. Update to 10.7.1 didn't fix anything.

I'm using a 2010 iMac 27''

Wifi keeps dropping every few minutes. Apple care wasn't able to fix this problem. What helps me through right now is opening up TERMINAL and pinging any internet adress. So as long as terminal is running and pinging (for example) google.com every few seconds, Wifi is stable. If terminal isn't running, wifi will disconnect every now and then.

Also... there is another problem that hasn't been mentioned here yet. Ever since upgrading to Lion I am unable to access my router from this iMac. I am using a FritzBox... and its router adress is http://fritz.box

When I type this in, my browser (any browser!) is looking this address up on the internet.

Trying to access fritz.box from any other Computer here at home works just fine.

:-/

NOT HAPPY, Apple!

I pretty much had the same problem with my iMac. An Apple rep advised me to change my router security from WEP to WPA. Magically this worked for me for the last two weeks!

The only other thing I had to do was to "Join Other Networks" becasue the Airport did not recognize the network even thought it was open.

Good luck!

Did you have a post you made yesterday taken down by Apple?  I won't say what it was about in case this suffers the same fate.  I had made a similar point earlier and my post was removed because it was deemed to be:

Speculation or Rumors

Off-topic or non-technical posts

I think it was more to do with commercial self-protection but it is interesting because there is a great deal of speculation and off-topic comment in threads like these that doesn't get taken down.

The reassuring thing is that Apple clearly are reading all this and so any attempt to See No Evil, Hear No Evil about this problem is clearly disingenuous.  The disappointing thing is that it feels like Big Brother and that a firm that was once the champion of the outsider has now become like pretty much any other big self-interested corporation.

BTW, Mr Apple, in case you consider this too is off-topic, it is relevant because it all has a bearing on whether the Community can believe that you have the will and capability of resolving the basic problem that Lion OSX is seriously flawed.  Refusing to acknowledge it (if only by continued silence) doesn't mean there is not a big problem here.  43 pages of posts on this one thread (and there are several similar other ones on this site alone) surely testifies to that.

I completely agree with "simon57", and I would like to add this: For sure, Apple is aware of the wifi problem, and they could release a note that they are aware of the problem. Censorship will not correct the wifi problem, because there is a massive complaint about this problem all over the internet and social networks.

I have bought a new MacBook Pro and the OS X Lion about two weeks ago, and I can not use it because the wifi sometimes works and sometimes does not work. I am writing this post usin a PC Windows 7 notebook, because today the wifi of the MacBook Pro is not working.

And please Apple, don't say that I have to configure the router or any other apparatus because everything in my house that uses wifi is working, even the iPhone 4.

You may add me to the list of disgruntled customers experiencing wireless internet connection issues since I "downgraded" to Mac OS X Lion. I first reported the problem to Apple Care on August 1st. Since then, Apple have released an OS update 10.7.1, but the update doesn't fix the problem. It actually makes it worse!

I'm amazed that a final OS release can be so disappointingly botched up! All those who purchased Mac OS X Lion should be refunded for the time lost namely trying to recover an internet connection.

I've also enquired about a suspicious process I noticed in the kernel logs called "echelon v1.2.5". I didn't get any answers from Apple Care. I'm guessing this is some sort of Apple made Big Brother spyware. But I have to admit that until I get an answer from Apple, it's mere speculation!

Could Echelon be anything to do with this:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/echelon-passive-twitter-client/id417089193?mt=12

??

numbles45 wrote:

 

Since then, Apple have released an OS update 10.7.1, but the update doesn't fix the problem. It actually makes it worse!

 

Agree 100%!! Actually, prior to 10.7.1 update I didn't have any problems with WiFi connection. But after the update, WiFi drops all the time...

I don't think so, for 3 reasons:

1) if it had to do with a twitter client, then I think the process would appear in software logs and not kernel logs

2) I've never installed echelon on my Mac!

3) the version now reported in the kernel logs is "echelon v1.2.5", whilst the latest version of the twitter client echelon is 1.0.1

I really think Apple ought to give us an answer, but they're being suspiciously secretive about it!.. and the past has shown that you cannot trust corporations.