Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 13'' Wifi Issues

a simple way would be to open the "Activity Monitor" and go to the Network tab, e.g. "Data received/sec"

P.S. can someone please make a screen capture of those >60 and 70 MB/s on Mavericks?

johnniecache wrote:

i understand, 25 MB/s is acceptable, but then again we are talking about a MacBook Pro, which should perform in the upper segment of current hardware, no?

It could/should be better. In my case, I was dumping files onto the disk in the Time Capsule itself, so if that HD is slow, then it could be a bottleneck. I don't have any other NAS in my home network to test whether it's the TC disk, Mavericks Wifi (ac) or both.

Hopefully Apple will get the ac worked with further driver improvements.

I'm using 'menumeters'.

And a very simple test : copying a 4 GB file , it takes about 1 minute.

Hm, pretty amazing. I just tested mine again, today i get an average of 10-15 MB/s with SMB to my QNAP NAS. As usual, lots of drops in the transfer speed, not constant at all. I also tested AFP, just out of curiosity, but it is pretty much the same. Also i tested FTP, thats even worse, only 5-10 MB/s.

You are using the BCM43xx 1.0 (6.30.223.154.63) Firmware and 10.9.2?

Please share with us how you are getting such a good connection.

802.11ac with 80MHz bandwidth is 1300 MBit/s, which means the actual speed is 650 MBit/s.

650MBit x 1024 = 665.600 KBit x 1024 = 681.574.400 Bit / 8 = 85.196.800 Byte / 1024 = 83.200 KByte / 1024 = 81,25 MByte

So if Apple would really support 802.11ac as advertised by them, you should actually get up to 81,25 Megabyte per second. Just a hint for you guys ...

@Eric.

Let's assume that the internal HDD of the AirPort Time Capsule is connected via USB 2.0 (450MBit/s):

450 MBit x 1024 = 460.800 KBit x 1024 = 471.859.200 Bit / 8 = 58.982.400 Byte / 1024 = 57.600 KByte / 1024 = 56,25 MByte

So do you get up to 56,25 MB/s?

I still got the problem with wifi disconnecting. I have updated to 10.9.2 and i still got this trouble.

Can someone give me some hint?

mukomval wrote:

I still got the problem with wifi disconnecting. I have updated to 10.9.2 and i still got this trouble.

Can someone give me some hint?

Unfortunately, if you look through this 35-page thread, you'll see more questions than convincing answers. It seems there are a bunch of problems, ranging from hardware faults (requiring a warranty return) to incompatibilities between Apple's wifi stack and some routers.

I've tried all the hints and tips here and still have some problems.

Out of interest, what router do you have?

The "Time Capsule" is not good for testing transfer rates. Here a review from MacWorld:

"The Time Capsule’s network performance improved only a little when copying a single 10GB file from the iMac to the MacBook Air, to 134 mbps (averaging 10 minutes, 13 seconds). Copying that same file back to the MacBook Air: 163.5 mbps (about 8.5 minutes). Obviously, none of those figures are anywhere close to WiFiPerf’s result of more than 450 mbps."

A real NAS needs some decent hardware to get Gigabit Transferrates.

P.S. Actually it would be interesting to see what transfer rates one gets with an ethernet cable connection on the Time Capsule. That should clarify what is the bottleneck.

Does someone know if there are any changes in the 10.9.3 beta?

new wifi driver or old one?

I've actually solved the remnant problems I had after updating to 10.9.2. This is unlikely to be relevant to most of you here, but just in case it is:

My remaining problem was that although pings to the router had become reasonably consistent since 10.9.2, web-browsing to a few sites still stuttered or downright stalled. This only happened on my MB -- other devices (a PC, android phone and an iPad) were all fine. It was oddly inconsistent, in that the same sites worked fine on the MB on some occasions but not others.

The solution turned out to be to stop my modem/router from proxying DNS lookups (ie. instead letting DHCP justreturn my ISP's DNS IPs to clients). Actually I'm surprised I had forgotten to do this, as I've frequently found DNS proxying on consumer-grade routers to cause problems, so normally opt to switch it off.

I don't understand why the MB was the only device on my network that had DNS lookup difficulties as a consequence of the proxying, but it's definitely reproducible, so I'm satisfied this was my final remaining issue with the MB's networking. All is working smoothly and as expected now.

Per the ToU, we are not allowed to discuss not yet publicly released OS versions.

A bit off topic from what y'all are saying (Yeah I'm from Texas) but I went to the apple store last weekend and will get my MBP replaced. A logic board problem they said. Hopefully my replacement will be better.

Not to scare anybody, but the problem only gets worse for those of you experiencing it. Now my computer loses its latency pretty much every half hour and sometimes less than that.

A word of advice: get your faulty mbp replaced soon.

I had very poor wifi performance on my brand new MBP Retina 13" late 2013 since day one. The sign would show it was connected but it was extremely slow to pull some pages and most of the websites it never even loaded (e.g. never loaded itunes store). It was basically useless. And needless to say all my other devices worked flawlessly

I spent hours talking to apple support, tried basically all the fixes that I could imagine and they could come up with. In the end they decided it must be a hardware problem and agreed that I got a replacement.

Got my replacement today and guess what, it is having the exact same issues, called apple support again and was told again that it must be a hardware issue and that I should have it fixed. Well, I am not planning to....I'll get a refund and don't think I will buy a MBP again. Nothing like this has ever happened to any of my PCs. And needless to say none of them were as expensive.

Don't get a replacement, get a refund...

I was considering doing that...