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wifi 10.8.4

Seen lots of threads about people having problems connecting to or maintaining connection to WiFi following a 10.8.4 upgrade. I've had the problem now for two weeks but just managed to speak to Apple who talked me through clearning out the old System Configuration file, shutting down the Mac, holding down the power button (with power disconnected) for 15 seconds then rebooting and recreating connection to WiFi. This seems to have resolved the problem and internet connection is now faster than ever. Prior to this, I had already deleted all the available WiFi connections (in Network Preferences, Advanced, WiFi) and also deleted Keychain references to my networks in Go, Applications, Keychain Access, System.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 1, 2013 5:27 AM

17 replies

m_a_c

Level 1

0 points

Aug 5, 2013 3:17 AM in response to ItsDecisionTime

I really hope this helps someone out.. I have tried this on my iMac 2011 10.8.4 and it seems to have fixed the issue... been 6 hours without a drop!

http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/30/resolving-stubborn-wi-fi-connection-problems-in-m ac-os-x/

Fingers crossed for you all - this is one very frustrating problem!!

Brianfit

Level 1

14 points

Aug 10, 2013 2:20 AM in response to ItsDecisionTime

The down side of this fix is that you lose all your Network preferences. As a frequent traveller, this was not attractive to me. I tried copying com.apple.network.identification.plist from the .old directory as root to try to restore them, but that didn't work.

The alternate fix: add a location, change to that location. Bam. Done.

>SystemPreferences >Network > Location > Edit Locations +to add.

I kept all my preferred networks intact AND solved the issue of Wifi not connectiong automatically.

Not sure what the root issue is -- I had no probelems until the upgrade to 10.8.4, and that bothers the geek in me, but having lost my Saturday Morning trying different solutions, I'm going to let that sleeping dog lie and be glad it's working. ;-)

wifi 10.8.4