Wifi unstable

My MacBook Air (MID 2012) keeps dropping the wifi connection after upgrading to OS X Mountion Lion.


Every couple of minutes the internet doesn't work but the wifi symbol says that it is still connected. After deactivating and reactivating the wifi it workes fine until the next wifi drop.


What I have alreday done:

- Reinstalled Mountion Lion (2x)

- Added other DNS Server

- Changed the MTU

- "KeepAlive" bash (ping router)


What should I do?

MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 5, 2012 12:00 PM

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Aug 19, 2012 11:39 AM in response to akimsset

I ment I changed to WPA2 Personal.

Just WPA does not exist on my system.


Such things like this does cost a lot of money for us who workes with the computer.

Every hour the computer does not work properly cost me 150€ as can not charge my clients when not working.


Everything started with Mountain Lion and I can not see how a third party would be involved in this.


Hope Apple sends out a fix very soon as there is a lot of peopke still not having this to work


Miss Steve Jobs a lot. Read the book. BAD GUY. But he really get things to happen.

Aug 20, 2012 12:05 AM in response to alikh1984

be no fool! mac filtering makes your wifi network by all means totally unprotected...sniffing your network for 1 minute and than changing my MAC address will grant me access to you network within few seconds...also breaking WEP secuity is nowadays question of 2-3 minutes (fastest attack is 40 sec!). That's why all new wifi routers will be (or already is) preset to WPA security.

Aug 23, 2012 10:50 AM in response to zSupp

Just updated to 10.8.1, got really excited and hoped it would fix the WiFi issues I've been having. Sadly... they are still there. Apple really needs to address this, because I'm not going to buy a new MacBook Pro just so my WiFi works the way it should.


Edit: Just checked System Information and the Broadcom driver has been very minimally incremented. 5.106.98.81.21 as compared to 5.106.98.81.20.

Sep 20, 2012 12:36 PM in response to wifiguru

The wireless issues I experienced were only on the wireless network at my office. It is a WPA2 network using AES encryption with PEAP authentication. On the network at home (WPA2 on an Airport Extreme (5th gen)), it worked without issue. I finally ended up wiping the drive and reinstalling 10.6.8 since it has had the best reliability when it comes to network connectivity.

Sep 21, 2012 5:46 AM in response to wifiguru

I have a Ubee DDW3611 wireless broadband router from Time Warner Cable, it was just installed a a week ago, everything worked great 30mps dowloand speed, no drops UNTIL i upgraded to 10.8.1 I am so upset that I upgraded without reading the forums. Now I have to turn wifi on and off on my MBP and my MBAIR every 3 minutes or so just to keep on the web. Some websites especially ones with with log-in forms simply won't open at all, I have to use a usb 4g modem to get to those. I sure hope Apple comes with a fix, because now that we install OS from the app store, it seems no easy way to roll back to a stable OS.

Nov 3, 2012 3:13 AM in response to zSupp

Spoke with Apple Care who fixed my intermittent network connection issues after having upgraded to Mountain Lion:

This is what he asked me to do:

1. Go to your Macintosh HD drive in Finder (system drive)

2. Go to Library

3. Drag the 'SystemConfiguration' Folder onto the Desktop (creates a ** copy - just in case)

4. Delete the 'System Configuration' Folder within the 'Library Folder' (empty the Trash Bin - just in case)

5. Reboot - This recreates the network files (automatically)

6. That's it!

Works now like a charm

P.S.: Just in case if you have done custom network configurations, write them down first.

PPS: I did the above and it works, but please don't hold me liable for anything you do on your own machine : )

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