New Macbook Air - wifi connectivity problems

p0ttyp1g30n wrote:

Went to have a cig... returned to my desk and the wifi dropouts are there AGAIN!!!
When i got to the Mac it was "dark" (but I don't think asleep... as my power management should require more time to make it sleep); clicked the mouse and the wifi restarted having problems... now, after a few dropouts is stable again.

W.T.F.?????

Consistent behaviour... it did again, after a break that caused my Mac to "sleep" (I've discovered new Haswell machines don't even list sleep option in "Energy Saver" pref pane...) wifi dropped out after more than an hour consistent connection. But it did just ONCE!

Now is connected and stable again...

It goes without saying that my office wifi doesn't change in any way, and my Mac is always in the same place.

I've been out of town for several days and have had no cell or Internet service for days, so just getting caught up on this thread and check voicemails. I had 2 emails from apple engineers and one voicemail from another engineer based on my posts to this thread. Has anyone else been contacted, and if so did they help resolve your issues? I'm still a couple hours away from the MBA, so I'll return the engineers phone call when i am sitting in front of the computer.

I have the same Log for my wifi (only the attributes that should be different have other values). I don't experience any difficulties with my connection at all, but i have only tried two modems from Cisco and one "public network". I have mac air 11 i7 8GB 256. Unfortunatelly, i doesn't mean that my air is OK 😟 ...

I have the new MBA 13" and was able to resolve my wifi connection issues by going into system preferences then clicking on Network. Once the Network window opens select your wifi connection on the left hand side of the window. At the top of the Network window next to Location: there is a drop down that says Automatic. Click the drop down and select Edit Locations. Click the + to add a new location and name it (I called mine Home) and click Done. Click the Apply button in the lower right hand corner of the Network window and restart your computer.

I did eventually see a drop on my newer accesspoint (DIR-628), can't say for sure why. It may have just been trying to jump back to the other AP.

I did see a couple more crashes.

Last night I finished up with it, closed the lid, put it on charge.

This morning simply unplugged the power and took it to my work desk. I opened it up around 1hr later to find that the screen wouldn't come on... looking closer I could see my login icon/password field on the display, just no backlight to illuminate it. It was locked up, as typing didn't add any characters to the password field.

The part that was bit bothersome is that while it was locked up, it was burning up battery power. The bottom of the MBA was warm (while sitting on a cool desktop). I plugged it in, on change. Had to hold down power to get it to turn off, then restart. Upon restarting the battery was at 75% (remember I only pulled it off charge and put it on my desk, should have been 100%).

Have a genius appt today. I was okay with waiting for a 'presumably' software/firmware fix to the wifi issue. But these lockups and hangs have me pretty bothered.

Try switching the networks security to WPA2 Personal on your router. Seen a few folks say that helps them.

Just returned mine. I loved the battery life and the portability (coming from a 15" pro) but, I was coming up on 14 days and didn't want to be stuck with it if there's no fix. Maybe if apple releases a fix soon i'll buy another one.

That might be wise (return unit and wait until this is resolved). I'm just unboxing my 2nd MBA in 3 days. Knock on wood, this one doesn't have WiFi issues and kernel panics like my last one.

OK, but this really looks like there are damaged units (HW, SW), not general problem. If the environment is around your mac air stable and only air is changed...

If your air is working fine at home but only has issues with other public wifi it cant be a harware issue

A software /firmware fix is needed to make these Airs AS backwards compatible with junk public wifi AS last gen macbook Airs

the entire definition of the Air isnt that of a homebody lapdog computer but a go everywhere traveler and that this New Air has an agoraphobia complex with junk wifi is the BIG issue someone dropped the ball on

Im getting info from several that unless the point is pressed that Apple is NOT "collecting" the problem Airs anymore .... meaning theyre certain as to the fix and seemingly a patch in OSX or firmware is in the pipe for solving this very near term

Actually, my air is working fine with public wifi too. I have not experienced any wifi issues so far. Now, i am trying to test different routers, wifis and so on to be sure it really works fine anywhere...

Hi. I'm a new Mac user, I bought two weeks ago the MBA from the web site and it came two days ago at home: I live away for studying so I haven't been able to see it yet, but I've been reading this 3d and some news on the web. I was wondering: what should I try to do with it to be sure it's fine? I mean, a drop of connection could be the signal to get a Genius Appointment? Should I wait for an eventual software fix? Thanks in Advance.

when I enabe it as AES it connects but with the "!" over the wifi bars and detwork diagnostics fails to find a solution

Did you try my solution that I posted earlier today?

@TechNuts
it won't let me choose "edit locations"

nevermind, the "lock" was activated

i'm going to try

IT DIDN'T WORK

sorry