wifi keeps dropping since Yosemite upgrade

Jenn, i don't wish to be a party pooper but don't light the fireworks yet. A most frustrating aspect of this problem is false dawns, hopes raised, dashed, raised and dashed again.

but who knows... if all's well tomorrow/next week do come back and update.

Have a lovely Christmas

Px

Yeah, I totally spoke too soon. I walked away from my computer, gleefully happy with my accomplishment, only to come back with the wifi disconnecting again >_< I will update if anything promising happens though.

"pole sana" - Swahili

This problem has been an annoyance for far too long. This goes back to mavericks for my own rMBP (late 2013 custom order). I have another rMBP(early 2013 custom order), no issues. An MBA(2013 custom order) also runs on the same network with no issues.

Deleting the network prefs works for a while but the problem eventually returns. Still searching for a solution. I purchased the Apple Care due to this issue and so far Apple has been of no help.

Now going on 4 days of continuous Wifi without interuption since changing the channel on my router from auto-scan to a fixed channel 11 on my D-Link router. Just FYI

I can also confirm that my fix also works long term, over a week now and once connected, in the way I described (repeatedly, about 20 times, selecting my network in the drop down box despite being already connected) I stay connected. I am very conscious that different things seem to work for different people and that my setup is a little unusual in that I tether to a smart phone rather than a modem but nevertheless, like everyone else, the problem is with Yosemite and even if it just helps a few people, it will have saved a lot of frustration.

Our router was originally on b/g/n.

I changed our router settings to n-only. My MacBook Pro finally stayed connected after weeks of torture, but then it stopped working for some of our older devices (wireless printer, iPhone 3).

Now I've set it to b/g-only and everyone seems happy.

I was having the same problem. My iMac would not maintain its connection to the internet even though it was connected to the router. After trying much reading and trying many things here is what solved out problem. First of all I have a dual band Netgear wireless router. All other devices (a number of windows laptops, televisions, PS3, Wii, various smartphones) had no connection problems.

I changed the channel on my 2.5 GHz signal on my router from AUTO to channel 1. My 5 GHz was already on a fixed channel.

Problem solved. The iMac is no happily connected and does not drop connection.

I am frankly not sure what I am losing by going to the fixed channel vs Auto but for now everything is good so I would recommend other with the same issue to try this.

Same problem here! Wifi keeps dropping since the Yosemite upgrade, particularly when I'm using uTorrent.

MacBook Pro 13-inch Early 2013 2,6GHz

The only fix that finally worked for me was changing router settings to g/b-only.

In my case deleting the SystemConfigurations was useless.

I limited the amount of allowed connection in uTorrent and installed the package jre-8u25-macosx-x64 (java), I haven't been having wifi drops since then.

Maybe uTorrent uses some Java function that are no more in the default java package on the Mac after the Yosemite upgrade, and maybe this happens with other applications too!

Hi there. Quiet for some time here...

Did Apple solve the problem? I'm waiting to upgrade to Yosemite until I'm sure the problem with the WiFi is solved.

How long has this fix worked for you?

Patience rules ⚠

I got a temporary fix for this BIG problem for MAC PRO RETINA users until Apple figure it out

Most of us have Torrents programs just start downloading any torrent file and put the down and up speed at 5 kB/s the connection will not drop when doing this

and for gamers you can just stop the download when your in internet game not before

we really hop apple will fix this soon.

😎