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mac osx 10.9 Mavericks wifi issue

Ok so Wifi is really starting to annoy now....


I have a 2013 Mac Air (about 1 month old). I upgraded to mavericks and now EVERYTIME the machine goes to sleep, i close the lid, whatever the wifi connection is shut down and on logging in again, the wifi doesn't connect. I have to manually turn off wifi and then turn on again before selecting my network (and usually needs 2 attempts).


This is unacceptable.


Does anybody else suffer from this issue? any ideas on how to fix it (other than reverting back to MLion - if that's even possible)


Thanks in advance for any responses


Kind Regards


Supersleb

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 11:51 AM

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Nov 6, 2013 10:13 PM in response to supersleb

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!


Was in contact with Apple Support Chat (amazing support as usual).

Resetting the System Management Controller solved my WLAN issue:


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US


Now if my Mac comes back from sleep, WLAN is immediately available and stable, as it was with Mountain Lion. Great!! 🙂


If resetting the SMC does not help, the second option is to reset the PRAM


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14222?viewlocale=en_US


regards


Roger

Nov 6, 2013 10:28 PM in response to rogerfromwil

Have done them both many times, just today, and no go. Some of the things that I am noticing is that after waking, every time, WiFi comes up for anywhere from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. It will either say it's there and work or just say it's there and not work. Then the menu bar icon goes gray and the control panel says it's off. But it does work for a few seconds every time I wake or restart. It worked fine for a month or so right in the middle of all this last Summer. So I am confident that it's software and not hardware. But then . . .


But mostly I get no reaction to trying to turn on the radio, or mismatched responses from the panel and menu bar with nothing working or the "No hardware installed" message. This has been ever since about 10.8.3-4.

Nov 11, 2013 8:19 PM in response to supersleb

I spent 1 hour on the phone with apple support and had to connect my iMac 24 in. Early 2008 via ethernet cable so that he could help me with remote assistance. No dice. I tried all of the above solutions and still have the wifi issue. My macbook is fine with Mavericks, my other devices connect to the Belkin wifi just fine (Tivo, Samsung note 3 and Chromebook) only the imac 24 inch has the problem and only since Upgrading to Mavericks. So, yesterday I dusted off the airport express and what do you know? Works fine all the time when connected to airport express. The problem I have is that the wifi printer and Tivo cannot connect via the airport, so for now I'm stuck with 2 wifi routers. There's word of 2 updates coming- I hope they help.

Nov 12, 2013 3:02 PM in response to supersleb

I am having the same issue! I didn't know that my bluetooth was on, so I just turned it off as I don't really use it. Hope the problem is resolved for me like some others here.

Nov 13, 2013 2:18 PM in response to supersleb

I'm not sure, but it seems to me that this is just a simple bug with a sticky DHCP lease introduced in 10.9. I've tired everything listed here (short of reinstalling everything) and none of it has helped me so far.


To resolve the issue manually, I open Network pref-pane, click advanced and click "Renew DHCP Lease" and that interface starts working again.


I have seen my wired ethernet interface get stuck more often than my wifi interface, but it seems to be the heart of the issue.


And I'm seeing this when ever I put my MacBook Pro to sleep in one location (work) and wake it up plugged in at another location (home). I've been working this way for years across 10.5, 10.6, 10,7, & 10.8. This is the first time I've encountered the wrong IP address sticking on an interface. Pretty obvious that it is since I run 10.x.x.x at home on an Airport Extreme and work runs 172.x.x.x.


Or maybe I'm seeing a different issue.

mac osx 10.9 Mavericks wifi issue

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