MinuNianda
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Q: Mavericks: Wifi takes a while to connect after sleep

Not sure if this question has been asked, but I'm finding this rather annoying. I just upgraded from Snow Leopard and there was a feature where with one simple touch on the trackpad, you can wake your Mac up after the screen goes to sleep after a period of inactivity. I understand that this feature is no longer available after the Lion and Mountain Lion upgrades. With Mavericks, after my Macbook goes to sleep, I push a key and it wakes up, but the wifi takes a while to reconnect, however with Snow Leopard, when I woke up my macbook, the wifi didn't have to reconnect. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this a bug? I hope Apple can come up for a fix for this, because aside from the fact that I can no longer use Pro Tools 9, I'm having free "buyer's remorse" for upgrading.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 3:48 PM

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  • by Richard Liu,

    Richard Liu Richard Liu Oct 31, 2014 10:29 AM in response to Alex5673
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    Oct 31, 2014 10:29 AM in response to Alex5673

    Setup:  Late 2011 17" MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.5.  Two LaCie external hard disks attached via eSATA PCI card to the MBP, both configured to standby when idle.  MBP configured to put hard disks to sleep when possible.

     

    When I wake the MBP from sleep, I can see on the sign in screen that WiFi is sleeping and I can hear the drives spinning up even before I have supplied my password.  If I delay inputting my password until the the drives have audibly woken up, I see the rings on the WiFi icon darken, indicating that WiFi has also woken up.  When I finally login, WiFi is immediately available.

     

    So clearly there's a certain order to waking up.  When I get more time I will experiment further, perhaps by configuring the hard disks to remain powered up even when the MBP is sleeping, or perhaps by disconnecting them altogether.  I imagine that even waking up the internal hard disk could cause a delay in WiFi's becoming available, but I've replaced it with an SSD, so the delay might not register on the annoyance radar.

     

    At any rate, I see no way to dictate the order in which devices wake up.

  • by shassel,

    shassel shassel Mar 29, 2015 3:34 AM in response to MinuNianda
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    Mar 29, 2015 3:34 AM in response to MinuNianda

    It's baaaack!

     

    I had not had this problem since updating to 10.9.4, but now the problem returns.  WiFi is very slow to reconnect.  Sometimes I have to toggle WiFi on and off.  Not sure when the issue reappeared, possibly with another OS update.  I'm now on 10.10.2.

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