OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

Having the same problem where Wifi connection drops every few minutes. Was not an issue before I upgraded to Yosemite. Turned off blutooth, tried diagnostics (option click on wifi icon). Tried creating new location. Thinking of downgrading with my timemachine backup.

all i I can say is I am sooooo happy I didn't update!!!!! I'm usually on board from day one, but ive thought Mavericks was already glitchy, so I hesitated. I've had more performance issues with Mavericks then any other OS, and figured it had to do with no more Mr. Jobs..... . Maybe standards are slipping, I hate to say. Been a Mac user since '07-not as long as many of u, but still a long time and am really bummed to see how this has been handled. I'll keep my eye on this thread before I take the plunge.

HI...

I have been on Yosemite with Network Issues since a month. Done numerous of own as well as suggested fixes. All of which have been working for a foreseeable time only. Yesterday, morning I tried another (Don't know whether this has been suggested or not) but it has put my Yosemite into another gear where sleeping the computer won't even interfere with Network after wake. Nor would I loose Network while doing heavy Dropbox syncing. Latter had almost always caused a network drop.

The Network (WLAN) I had been using was generated by an Airport Extreme which had been configured 6 months ago as I was still running Maverick.

I decided to reset the Airport Extreme to its factory default settings. So that is what I did. It was the only thing I had not attempted in dealing with the network issues.

After being reset, I entered my WLAN along with Password and set it to operate @ 5GHZ only (To eliminate Bluetooth Interference).

After that, everything just seemed to work. Sleep, deep sleep, streaming, syncing, iPhone 6 Plus sitting next to rMBP, Girlfriend talking on her phone, etc.

This has probably been suggested but this thread is too big to read thru' - so I thought I'd post is here. If I encounter the issue again, I'll report back and flag this as another temporary non-solution.

1macprincess! wrote:

all i I can say is I am sooooo happy I didn't update!!!!! I'm usually on board from day one, but ive thought Mavericks was already glitchy, so I hesitated. I've had more performance issues with Mavericks then any other OS, and figured it had to do with no more Mr. Jobs..... . Maybe standards are slipping, I hate to say.

We, the users are able to influence those standards by coming here and posting and reading. Standards should rise with a future 10.11 ! As Yosemite has proven, beyond a doubt, that hitting the upgrade button the minute it arrives, is quite the dangerous thing to do. So people will think twice (or three times) before upgrading next time.

If a company strives to, as fast as possible, move the majority of its user base to the new version of its operating system - it should be employing immaculate quality-control before releasing such an upgrade. And forums as these provide excellent statistics for such endeavours.

Yeah, disabled Handoff first and this seemed to help a bit. Handoff wasn't working on my homenetwork anyway (2.5 and 5G), at the office it did. Now I have reset the SMC and turned Handoff on again. Works now in my home network and Wifi seems stable. Fingers crossed... (tried a few other solutions before like dumping some plists but that didn't seem to to the trick). Am I a bit of a bigmouth if I say that Apple should address this problem a bit more actively?

The 10.10.1 Beta did not solve the problem. I'm always cannot connect to my 5GHz wireless connection on my MBP but I can on 2.4 GHz.

No problem for my MBA where both 5GHz and 2.4GHz worked perfectly.

Strange!!!!!!

cnour78,

I believe that you are violating your NDA by publicly discussing Pre-Release software. I could be wrong but that would be the first NDA which allows public discussion of beta software !

Just saying....

Yes, this is very true MortenJamesCarlsen....however, not possessing the level of expertise that many of the users have here, my contribution is limited to sending error reports that are generated by the system. It's a foreign language to many of us, and while I've picked up a lot over the years, I'm definitely not experienced enough to articulate exactly what the issue is.....other than "****, this thing is slooooooow!" 🙂

However, your post helped me to realize I need to at least post a "THANK YOU" to all of you who can articulate the issues to Apple. 🙂 So....THANK YOU TO ALL THE SAAVY PEOPLE OUT THERE! 🙂🙂🙂 (no sarcasm at all....i really am grateful)

I will say that I have been so spoiled over the years with my Apple products and how they "just work", but I am not as enchanted as I once was......:( I hope they turn it around soon....that said, I can say with 100% certainly, that I will never return to a windows environment...EVER.

Nicknish's first solution worked for me to. I had to do this with my Mavericks upgrade at work last year. The explanation from our help desk was that you have to do it with what ever wifi network you conduct the upgrade over. I image some settings don't get reset since they were active/locked during the upgrade. My wife and I were dropping every 5 to 15 minutes and now we've been solid for about 2 hours. I'll report back here if that changes ; )

Also, I noticed that those that said this didn't work for them said they changed their network 'location' not recreating their WiFi interface. Totally different things. Delete your Wi-Fi interface using the minus button at the bottom of the interface listing.

Yes, a very irritating bug.

1macprincess! wrote:

I will say that I have been so spoiled over the years with my Apple products and how they "just work", but I am not as enchanted as I once was......:( I hope they turn it around soon....that said, I can say with 100% certainly, that I will never return to a windows environment...EVER.

Exactly. Sometimes I find myself bickering over something. Then I realize that Apple has infected me with Luxury.

Here in Germany, they have a monster of an electronic store called Saturn. I visit it approx. once per month. And not once do I visit this store without checking up on the competition like Samsung. The minute I get the Galaxy in the hand, I'm like nice. Not much of a difference to the iPhone... Then I start browsing about and use the device.... A minute perhaps two.. The feel of the software and OS is so low-quality compared to iOS. And that is when I know that been luxuriated by Apple...

I am a beta tester (At heart as well) for a lot of companies.... I a have seen a lot of bugs and strange beta version across the years. The beta versions are there for a number of reasons and they have non-optimised code etc. in them for a number of reasons... As nervy and nasty as a release can be, I don't think it is good practice to begin discussing Beta software on a public forum. It is not fair either. Neither to Apple nor to the Users. 10.10.01 is the first beta cycle and a beta cycle seldomly lasts for 'one' cycle. But have numerous iterations. And for a beta tester to come here and state that the wifi bug isn't fixed in the first cycle is something that beta tester should be reporting to the Apple Team and NOT to the general public. He can do that once the beta has become an official release.

The more beta testers, reporting reliable repro-cases to Apple the better the general public releases will become. 12 years ago I was very very active on public forums, complaining about bugs. It never helped. So I decided to become beta tester for software which I use a lot and put in my forum-time where it really matters.. Proper Bug Reporting helping me and the developers ;-)

I went several pages back and couldn't find "nicknish" post. Can you please disclose details of his solution and how did you applied it to make it work. I'm so tired of waiting for Apple to fix this WiFi bug. I don't think it will happen soon, therefore I'm willing to try everything I can instead of just waiting. I'm so close to restore my late 2012 i-Mac, which worked perfectly before the "upgrade", back to factory settings. For the past couple of weeks I have been attempting to correct this so irritating bug without a permanent results. Thank you.

OK, founded on the second page on this discussion forum. Applied his first step which removed my old and created a new WiFi 2 system for my i-Mac. Now my computer has a new IP. Earlier today and I'm not sure if it's relevant I went to my Air Port Utility and under "Internet Options" changed configuration of IPv6 from "link - local only" to "Automatic" to match my computer network setting in Network Preferences. Before performing above step one suggested by 'nicknish" and also performed by 'huxtableb" IPv6 values were not populated, however after the step one most of these spaces were filled. So, I think if you just apply the first part of suggested fix every thing related to IPv6 will be filled automatically. Just please make sure that configuration of IPv6 in Air Port Utility and Network Preferences are set to "Automatic". After the fix I downloaded couple of movies and streamed them to Apple TV and the WiFi signal did not dropped once. It was not possible before. Well, it all make sense because by upgrading from Maverick to Yosemite some of my WiFi settings were not set correctly. Actually they were left as Maverick WiFi settings under the new Yosemite operating system. I'm using three years old Motorola Surf Board modem and Air Port Extreme router. I'm sure that many of us should have their WiFi issue resolved after performing suggested fix. Wish you all the best luck.

PS;

I did have to reboot my computer twice; as suggested and at the end because my WiFi icon was gray out with an "x" in it.

Regards,

Unfortunately I was over enthusiastic and reported above fix as a success too soon. Like everything else suggested on this forum I have tried eventually failed. I'm not sure if without Apple help anything is going to work. It's making me sick and also depressing because who knows how long is going to take for Apple to fix it. I can not imagine using my computer in the current state for much longer. I'm recovering from a total hip replacement surgery so do not have to go to work. Most of my free time in the past two weeks I dedicated to researching and fixing this WiFi bug. Thanks Apple.

Hi Warszawa,

it take, physically, 21 minutes to clean-install Mavericks. Another hour, using Migration assistant to move data over.

I suggest, you use your time more efficiently than attempting to debug WIFI issues on Yosemite. As you state yourself, that is the job of Apple.

I am not trying to be cynical here but constructive. In two hours, from reading this, you can be happy and on your way to spending your time more effectively.

IHTH

When I first installed Yosemite on my MacBook Pro and iMac, I noticed the Wi-Fi issues. Someone suggested that a "clean install" might fix the problem. So, I did just that with my MacBook Pro (Yosemite clean install), but left the iMac unchanged. In side by side tests, the MacBook Pro was fine (no Wi-Fi issues) while my iMac continued to drop off intermittently. While it may have been coincidence, the clean install did resolve the problem on my MacBook Pro and I did the same thing with my iMac -- no problems noted since. Just wanted to pass along my Wi-Fi issues as well.