Internet Keeps Dropping on my Macbook Pro Retina

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Internet Keeps Dropping on my Macbook Pro Retina

Recently on my Macbook Pro Retina, the internet keeps losing its connection. I've had this computer for a while and everything was fine until recently. I didn't change any settings and everything is fully up to date.

The scenario goes like this, I would be surfing a site and all the sudden it just stops working. The wifi signal is very strong and when I turn the wifi off and then turn it back on, its works perfect again for a while. I am not sure whats wrong, please help!

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 3, 2012 5:07 PM

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Answer 1

AppleJohn88 Author

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Oct 12, 2012 11:00 AM in response to AppleJohn88

Anybody help? 😟

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kwaphoto

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Oct 15, 2012 12:34 PM in response to AppleJohn88

I have this issue on my 2012 MBA when on my employer's wifi, but not at home on my network. I know it must be related to their authentication method and/or timeouts with the connection. Drives me nuts...however, it did NOT do this when I was on OS X 10.7.

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jqlehman

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Nov 22, 2012 2:12 PM in response to AppleJohn88

I have the same problem with my macbook pro retina 15. It drops frequently or at times takes way too long to make a connection from one website to another. Doing network diagnosis it shows wifi works fine to airport extreme base station, but internet server down. It sometimes works by restarting or just waiting for the connection to return. Very frustrating.

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Nov 24, 2012 1:53 PM in response to AppleJohn88

Have a 15" retina MBP with same problem. It has just happened to me with thunderbolt ethernet as well, so not just a wi-fi issue. Network just becomes unavailable, mounted network drives disconnect, no internet. Re-establishing the connection fixes it. Don't have a clue as to the cause. There is no error message to send to Apple either so I don't know when/if it will ever get fixed. Fortunately, it is sufficiently infrequent not to be a major issue, but still unwelcome.

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Eric Root

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Nov 24, 2012 2:19 PM in response to AppleJohn88

Other threads that may help:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1168478

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3316195?answerId=16124050022#16124050022

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