OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

OGreat oh okay great as long as I never leave my house ever.

apple gets a sold vote of no confidence.

THey hey keep this up and OSX Yosemite is going to sell a lot of Windows 8.1 machines. I know I'm shopping.

Our router is only 2 months old is is supposedly one of the "best" AC wifi router currently available (ASUS RT-AC87R).

Neither the 2013 iMac or the mid 2012 MBP in our home is able to use the internet. Connection doesn't drop as other have reported, it just doesn't go anywhere. Browser status bar typically stays on "Resolving Address".

We have an Ubuntu 12.10 desktop in the basement and also a Windows 2012 Server, neither of those machines have any problems accessing the WAN.

From day one after Yosemite my wifi drop every 2 or 3 min.

The only think who solve my wifi problem was fix the router in just one band.

At home I fix on N and in my office I fix on G because my wifi printer don't work on N.

After that no more drops, it was + or - 3 weeks ago!

I did the update to 10.10.1 and change the router to auto B,G,N and start drop again...!!! Then I return to a fix band and again no more drops.

I hope this help some one...

I have also lived with this wifi problem, however I have no problem other than when I am in one location and working on a Speedport W921v router. This is very strange as it works for a few days and then starts dropping out and I had to reconnect manually. I have tried numerous suggestions made by people in this discussion and none have worked. The only work around I found was to run Network Diagnostics in the background and this delivered steady wifi access. Yesterday in desperation I rebooted the router and left it for 3 min off power and had steady wifi for 6 hours. Then drop out, Downloaded the latest update 10.10.1 late yesterday and this morning more drop out only difference was it automatically reconnected, so again rebooted and now the wifi is steady and running. How long for? Router is fine in my view the problem seems to be inside Yosemite when it confuses itself and starts to disconnect and reconnect from the router?

Very much the case, one location shows the drop out problem, so it is an OS - router interaction.

Started for me with a Mavericks update a few months ago, continues in Yosemite.

I suspect more and more people are getting caught with the drop out issue, which I also suspect is different to the slow connection / Bluetooth 2.4 GHz issue.

You will find threads on Mavericks' WiFi drop out too.

I have dug deep, but not found the cause within Mac OS, which is where it must lie.

I only occasionally use my MBAir but at the weekend I did notice the inability to connect to my TimeCapsule for backups or the storage area I keep on it also. No issues so far with wifi connection, initially it takes a second or two rather than instant but otherwise no issues.

I use the TimeCapsule for a wifi base rather than the BT Hub as there are so many BT hubs in my locality and this confused all my devices, infact, I find it hard to join any BT based hub anywhere on my iPhone. I blame that on BT.

My solution, was turning both devices off and restarting, they then connected for my use. However, I have to do this everytime I want to connect to the timecapsule storage after putting the MBAir to sleep.

I have been told by Apple that I shouldnt be using my TimeCapsuleG2 for both backup and separate storage but when I bought it, thats what the marketing on the Apple website told me I could do.

My MacBook Pro Retina 2014 still has a problem after upgrade to 10.10.1. WiFi works fine, but when I try to connect Magic Mouse and Wireless Kayboard Internet connection slows down and I'm not able to open single website. I'm waiting for an update. Right now I can not use my MM or WK, just because they don't work with Yosemite.

Turned off bluetooth and like magic all internet traffic was blazing again!! Turned the bluetooth on again and it was still good. Don't know for how long this will last.

(This is after install of the latest update: 10.10. i already had some wifi problems before)

I did the same today and I'm seeing a slow improvement. Ping latency appears to be dropping and download speed slowly increasing. It's now at about 40Mbps but no where near the 70Mbps I get with bluetooth off.

I'm going to leave the bluetooth on today and test it every hour or so

kidxrude wrote:

Turned off bluetooth and like magic all internet traffic was blazing again!! Turned the bluetooth on again and it was still good. Don't know for how long this will last.

(This is after install of the latest update: 10.10. i already had some wifi problems before)

you are on a 2.4GHZ WLAN. Switch it to 5GHZ and watch your bluetooth issues vanish like magic.

Bluetooth does not interfere with 5GHZ WLAN. It does interfere A LOT with 2.4 GHZ. But ONLY sometime and that 'Sometime' is when the radio channel happens to be the same as the WIFI-One. And that switches a lot. So use a 5GHZ WLAN whenever you can

You're joking, right?

How can it be possible? On Mavericks everything was fine, same router, same Mac, same Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard. So, I don't think it's about 5Ghz it's something with OS X.

The only trouble with WI FI connectivity since upgrading to Yosemite has been with my university WI FI network. I have had no issues at home with my Airport wireless network. Still have connectivity issues at my university with the latest update.

Since Yosemite, I've had troubles connecting to my Time Capsule wireless. What I've noticed is that we couldn't connect to the 2.4ghz or it would drop off constantly. We could use the 5ghz with no problem. I switched off the 5ghz band in the TC configuration and had more success with the 2.4ghz. The ATT router only has a 2.4ghz band and it works fine.

At first I though my TC wireless was failing, but after seeing all the problems everyone is having, I assume it's an issue with Yosemite and not all routers. My TC is an older one. I reverted to just using the 5GHz band and don't try connecting to the 2.4ghz TC. I use the ATT Uverse router 2.4GHz band also so everyone will have a choice.

I hadn't tried connecting to the 2.4GHz on the TC since the upgrade to Yosemite. I may have to check that out to see if there are any improvements.

I have the same problem - wifi fix not helped - still drops, works if I turn wifi on and then off. Also trackpad only works properly when MacBook Pro Retina plugged in and graphics hiccups on Photoshop and Lightroom and others when looking at all the screens I have open.

Same Macbook Pro Retina, actually I hadn't much trouble before using 10.10, just upgraded to 10.10.1 and now my connection has become incredibly slow (comparable with the old 56k modems, luckily it doesn't drop all the time, as I've read in some other posts). Tried restarting my Macbook router etc, but all stays the same (other devices are working at full speed). So indeed things have certainly become worse then it was before. I hope they fix this soon. First the RJ-45/ethernet port is removed from the devices, so you totally depend on wifi, and then this happens...