mac osx 10.9 Mavericks wifi issue

Both these AC units are now available.

EW-7822UAC, EW-7811UTC

The new EW-7711MAC will be out in one month.

I'm really looking for an AC/N because I have AC home and the office and everywhere else they have N/G so I need both, plus. And I see that Dual Band units are "huge", not really, compared to the little dongles. I'm completely lost on this. But will probably have to settle for an N only. To tell the truth I really have no idea what to get, but would like the "best and smallest" for what will hopefully be short lived use.

I'm just hoping that by the time I get around to buying something, that my MBP will start working again on its own. "Fingers Crossed". It's done it a couple of times.

This is a dongle only unit that is AC/N.

http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=498&pl1_id=28&pl2_id=138

Thanks. I've looked at it before, but just downloaded the drivers that seem to be "newer" than what I have been playing with that are for the most part, "working". Later when I have the time I am going to try the driver for this AC/N model and see what happens. Matter of fact I have collected a bunch of drivers for their products and will try many more of them. It seems that alone WiFi is trying to work on its own. But since I have been playing with other manufacturers drivers without their dongles, I am getting results. That is after I have tried all the "fixes" that have been posted that none have worked for me.

So we'll have to see what happens. I'll report back as to what happens for me with all these drivers.

I am curoius as to how you can use a driver for a wireless adapter to improve your Wifi problems. I hope you will detail it.

I just installed it as you would any driver or piece of software. And the great thing is that these drivers have uninstallers.

I just uninstalled the driver that was mostly working. I'm letting my MBP sleep while I work on another machine and . . . woke it and I've got N @ 270 right now supposedly without a third party driver. It's working nicely. Very Nicely. But for how long? Just ran a speed test that usually hammers the WiFi and it worked great. I even got the same numbers I usually get with an Ethernet connection.

Am doing some surfin' and all is as it has been in the past prior to "the problems" and should be. Hmm....

I will install the latest driver I just got after I play/try to break this for a while and will see what happens. So far so good. With a most unlikely attempt at a solution that tells me it's software related, not Mvrx, because I had these WiFi issues before Mvrx came out. I was hoping that Mvrx would fix it. But no. Tx Rate down to 243 now, but still have WiFi.

I think I scared the Apple stuff by finding a third party solution and now they (the little internal WiFi guys) are working out of shear fright. Yup. I'm laughin' too.

More as I encounter it.

So you are basically just installing drivers for one of the Mac supported Edimax drivers and that made the difference w/o their hardware? That's weird but hey, anything that makes it easier is good, isn't it? BTW, which particular driver worked for you?

Well several hours of streaming to my sound system, some surfin' and all is still just fine. Have to go seal with some cranky entertainers and will play more when I get back.

The driver(s) I played with are on the driver page: (http://www.edimax.us/html/english/frames/b-download.htm) where an OS 10.9 is listed. I originally went to see what model supported what OS and downloaded the drivers: EW-7811Un, EW-7722UTn v2.0.

Well I for one would love to understand how any of these drivers (sans the actual Edimax adapter) would fix the Wifi issue on a Mac.

Someone out there??? Can you explain how this works. A driver for an aftermarket USB radio reciever actually fixes the drop Wifi on you Mac? All you did was download it. How in did you intall it into the Mac software that operates your Wifi? Questions questions questions.

Even after the 10.9.3 Official Update, and AFAIK, no third party driver, WiFi is still working. When the update popped up last night I was leery. But figured I could try the newer drivers if the update broke my "fix". But did not have to. Streaming to the pool right now 802.11n @ 270.

But the update did break selecting Airplay components from the volume icon in the menu bar or the Sound CP, even though the selection shows up. In the Sound CP, when you click on it just jumps back to the Internal Speakers. I really liked Airplay from the computer itself, it sounded better and was easier to control while not having to have iTunes in the front. But that's another topic.

So I was just streamin' tunes and it went dead. No WiFi. I checked everything and we're back to square one. Restarted and everything, still nothing. So I installed the newest drivers and it's back. Now I'm back to streamin' with n @ 270 from the rose garden in the South 20. Might do a little surfin' later.

Yep and it is going to keep up doing it. You gotta get the dongle.

We'll see this process is new and many system related things have happened that don't usually. It's fine now. It was the 10.9.3 Update cleared out whatever the third party driver did. Put it back and it's fine. It was also fine without it before the update. So . . .

It ran all evening during cocktails, dinner and more cocktails streaming iTunes to all parts of the grounds without a glitch.

So no dongles. From what I see, I don't think they make the one I want anyway. Plus who knows. it just may work now or dare I say it, Apple fixes the problem. Plus this unit is going in for a rebuild soon anyway.

Thanks, I was skeptical but this worked for me!

1) Delete all WiFi connection preferences.

2) In keychain, delete all references to airport.

I actually didnt have any aiport references in keychain, perhaps because step 1 deleted them??

3) In Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences delete com.apple.Bluetooth.plist

After a reboot, the startup process was longer and a long loading bar went accross screen. I assume OS X had detected the missing bluetooth.plist and was rebuilding.

A 4th step that I did was after OS X loaded from the reboot, I connected to my blurtooth device first, then wifi. This was the only thing I could think of that would be different from how I did things when I first started my brand new mac.

I now am able to come out of sleep and my wifi instantly connects and my bluetooth mouse and speakers are also connected. Only been 12 hrs now, but before the wifi would not ever connect if bluetooth had been on and connected to something before mac went into sleep.

I tried all of the suggestions and nothing worked.

So I tried the dongle solution suggested by Harvey 137 (http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=498&pl1_id=28&pl2_id=138) and voila! Back in action!