After my MacBook has been on for a few hours, the Wi-Fi randomly will just stop working and will refuse to turn back on until I restart my laptop. Any help?
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Hi CPUGenuis!
I have an article for you that addresses this situation and will help you troubleshoot this issue:
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
Symptom: The network connection drops unexpectedly
- Your Mac may not not stay connected to your Wi-Fi network reliably.
- Your Mac may stop accessing the Internet during use.
Solution
Use these steps if your computer disconnects from its Wi-Fi network unexpectedly.
- Check your range to the Wi-Fi router and reduce the effect of interference.
If your computer is too far from your Wi-Fi router or your environment has too much Wi-Fi interference, then your computer may not detect the Wi-Fi network properly. The easiest way to check for range limits with your Wi-Fi network is to move your computer or your Wi-Fi router closer together and make sure that there are no obstructions (such as walls, cabinets, and so forth) between the router and your computer.
See Potential sources of wireless interference for more information about interference and solutions.- Try connecting to a different Wi-Fi network. If your computer works fine when connected to a different Wi-Fi network, then the issue may be related to your network router or ISP. In that case, contact the manufacturer of your router or your ISP.
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden
It has been doing the same thing on multiple networks at multiple different points.
I also restored my computer via time machine, and it still happened.
It is currently doing a fresh install of osx 10.9, and then I'll restore it from a time machine. Will that help?
Hi again, CPUGenius!
A fresh install of Mavericks would definitley be a good troubleshooting step to take in order to narrow down and resolve this issue. In addition, you may want to troubleshoot using the information I posted above about routers and signal interference.
Thank you for using the Apple Support Community. Due to the nature of your issue or question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action.
Cheers,
Braden
Just fresh installed maverics and after 6 hours it did the same thing again.
So I tried messing with terminal, to a little success.
I ran the sudo ifconfig en1 down, then up, and it showed networks for a few seconds, and now it'll scan for networks to no avail.
And to probably fill in some holes, it has done this on multiple networks, 2 time machine restores, and a full maverics reinstall. It also occurred in the lion recovery package from online via firmware. On the last time machine restore, it said that wifi wasnt even installed.
just confirmed that it happens in safeboot. only apps open in safeboot that weren't apple apps were chrome and dropbox.
typcially the wifi will stop along with all ethernet connectivity rendering the computer unable to use the internet at all, but i guess i should clarify that when using the lion recovery, it was able to maintain its ethernet connection even when the wifi went out.
currently forwarding this to chrome and dropbox support to see if it is related to any known error on their part.
here is a diagnostics file that i created as the wifi went out.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2o4wcqutqugh41/WirelessDiagnostics-45126CF4F5W-201312 07223222.tar.gz
Why does my wifi randomly stop working completely until I restart?
