Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 13'' Wifi Issues

I just uploaded a file to my NAS over SMB and only achieved between 3-4 Mb/s with a 1.7Gb file. Pretty slow performance, I think. That measurement was according to the network pane of Activity Monitor.

Hi cb12394856,

I have been having consistent internet drops and drastic internet ping lag in a game ranging from my normal 37 Latency to over 5000 Latency and then I get disconnected from my internet and cant surf the web or do anything requiring internet connection. It is super frustrating. This is quite weird because this happened a few times last year and all of a sudden started again after this new bloody 10.9.2 update has been released. ANYONE for this matter, WHAT DO I DO NOW? I cant deal with internet drops every 30 minutes and slow internet that takes over 20 minutes to repair through multiple restarts, log in log outs, off the internet airports, and other methods.

HELP ME SOMEONE!

Three possibilities. 1. Some routers cause less/no problems. If you are mostly at home, get one. I bought an R6300v2 and it works without latency or drops on 5GHz. 2. Get an external WiFi adapter, people here report that this works well, if you dont mind the looks. 3. Use Windows, i have no issues there.

The external wifi adapter isn't a problem in terms of looks. They've gotten really small today (not bigger than one of those wireless mouse receivers). The downside is, it occupies on of the two usb ports, but since computer mice and external keyboards use bluetooth these days, it doesn't bother me much either. Having constant internet connection is much more important. Try this one for example: http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=347&pl1_id=1

it's cheap, small and works perfectly.

Hello everyone, I just wanted to report that I just tested my new Macbook Pro 13" and did a speed test with Black Magic Disk Speed Test and got 48Mb/sec write to my networked Mac Mini's external drive and 68Mb/sec read. Is that slow/fast? I just got rid of a Powerbook G4 so that seems fast to me (anything is fast compared to that, haha).

The problem I have mainly is that sometimes when I wake my mac it takes a while to find my network, but not all the time. Once I'm connected it's fine, I do have bluetooth turned off since that seemed to have been something causing wifi to drop. I don't have a use for Bluetooth right now.

if its MB/s then thats very good. Interesting because you are the second person reporting very good rates to a Mac Mini, dont know how that plays a role (mac to mac transfers?)

What router are you using?

It's bits, not bytes. For bytes it's 6.7MB/s write and 8.6MB/s read.

I have an old airport extreme and I have manually configured IPs throught my network.

8 MB/s is not ok for 802.11ac. I know that the Retina MBP can do at least 45 MB/s, because i actually get this on mine when i use Windows, see my earlier posts. Its very constant as well, not just some peak value.

With the current Mac OS driver i am getting a 15 MB/s average, which is very similar to what other people have posted in this thread.

I've got an old AE. So it's wireless N.

Looks like the 10.9.2 update + updating router (Netgear R7000) firmware + updating FreeNAS really gave me a boost. I did a very unscientific test of moving a 4.7GB mkv movie file from my NAS to my Mac.

On the 2.4Ghz band I was able to get anywhere from 12-18 MB/s as reported in the Activity Monitor.

On the 5Ghz band I was getting a whopping 55-75 MB/s.

Previously, I had always used the 2.4 Ghz band because it was actually stable/usable. I usually got 7-10 MB/s before the update. The 5ghz band would drop within a minute of starting a file transfer and during that minute speeds were slow and very erratic with long pauses where it was unclear if it was even transferring. Now it's solid and very quick. It actually exceeds the speeds of my desktop which has an Asus PCE-AC68 AC1900 adapter which only manages about 30 MB/s transferring the same file despite the fact that it has an external antenna base with 3x antennas.

Three things have been updated since I last posted here about poor performance:

1) Mac has been updated to 10.9.2

2) FreeNAS has been updated to 9.2.1.2 (Improved Samba/CIFS performance)

3) Netgear R7000 firmware has been updated to 1.0.3.24_1.1.20 (Improved 2.4G/5G performance and stability)

Everything together has resulted in great performance. Keep in mind the 10.9.2 update alone didn't do a whole lot for me other than fix erratic ping times and make things a bit more stable. Performance seemed similar and I still didn't use the 5ghz band. Only just now I thought hmm I've updated my router and NAS since then let me give it another try and BAM the 5ghz speeds are the fastest I've seen yet.

Would recommend that those having problems update everything on the network and try both bands if you have a dual band router. Also keep in mind speeds will vary based on the slowest component. Try using an ethernet cable to make sure something other than the Mac's wireless isn't the bottleneck.

Just tested current 10.9.2 in my vacation place with a 802.11g Router (Speedport 720V). Still the same problems. Doesnt find a connection after sleep. Ipad Air and Win PC have no problems on the same WiFi.

Go fix this finally apple, its about time now!

There's a solution I posted for this problem here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5100655?answerId=25175868022#25175868022&ac_cid=tw123456#25175868?ac_cid=t w123456

I've been dealing with this problem across two different Late 2013 MacBook Pros 13" (both i7, one 128GB, one 256GB) for the last few months. I went through AppleCare for both. The first MBP went in for repair and came back with a new Airport card which did not fix the problem. The second one still had this issue up until yesterday.

Since this was happening on both MBP's, I tried buying a new router (same model as the old one: Asus RT-N66) and it still happened. I tried moving my routers to a different network connection and it still happened. However, I learned that one of my local coffee shops had the same router and my laptops worked on that wifi.

At first I attributed it to me not being logged on long enough for a problem to occur, but the other variable was the password length. My home router had an 8 character long WPA2 password while the coffee shop had 15 characters. Yesterday I changed my home password to a new 15-character password and I haven't had a wifi problem at all yet. My pings (which used to be extremely variable and unstable) are solid and consistent.

Bottom line: try changing your wifi password to something 15 or more characters long.

yellowbkp, this has helped me too. Thank you soooooooooo much!

And shame on Apple! This problem has killed 20 000 of my neurons!

I recently set up AE to manually configure IP address to my MBP through mac address and have not had any issues with MBP finding my wifi. Don't know if it's a fix or not but it's working fine since I did this.

So I have:

Bluetooth off

Wake on Wifi off

AE DHCP reservation set up