OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

This must be the lamest response I've read so far!! Whether you pay for it or not doesn't matter. Apple prides itself in releasing the best hardware/software possible.

Yosemite is no different and the Discussion community is there to help improve upon that premise and believe it or not but Apple engineers do need these bugs to be reported one way or another.

I had none of the WiFi problems with Yosemite other were reporting till I upgraded to 10.10.1. It seems 10.10.1 just enlarged the pool of Apple users with WiFi problems. I have a late 2012 Mini. iPhone & iPad both happy. Ran speed test on Mac Mini got download of 0.95 ran on iPad Air got 8.07 both WiFi.

Clearly this is a Yosemite problem that I did not have with any other device or on Mavericks.

Warszawa wrote:

we the consumers are not unreasonable to expect properly functioning products for our money.

Correct. But just because you expect something that someone else seeks to deliver, does NOT necessarily make it work.

What sets people aside is how they react and behave once their expectations have not been met.

Should we prepare our self for gradually progressing degradation in quality of consumer goods without any reaction?

The quality is actually getting better and better. And MUCH more advanced. I would personally rather sit here and work with 10.10 on a 2014 rMBP screamingly fast and do a bit of Network trouble shooting until a fix is provided than sit with a Mac G3 and a Modem.

The way I see the future is as a community ALL striving to make the product we all use and love better.... Better by HELPING when something goes Wrong instead of saying nothing when stuff goes right... The sheer capabilities of OS X and especially 10.10 are so vastly ahead of any competition and being on the bleeding edge means that stuff can go wrong. And it did for networking. For many.

It is in everyone's interest to get this bug squashed as soon as possible. And the fastest way to achieve that is to bring detailed reports and repro-cases to Apple's Engineers. So that is the route I take !

Warszawa wrote:

I'm afraid that you are confusing quality with technological advancement. Quality is a sum of a high level of value or excellence. Naturally it's a simplified definition.

I have used Mac since '96 and the quality of the quality of their products, hardware and software, FAR supersede the past..

OS X - was unusable for until Panther Arrived, making it barely useable. Tiger took slowly other folks aside from freaks began porting to Mac in a widespread matter.

Stating that Apple's quality is getting worse based on an OBVIOUS and FIXABLE BUG.... Is downright ignorant and nonsense.. Pls don't take it personal.

For it is NOT. It is a Fact ;-)

Hello,

I did the update Yosemite 10.10.1 and wifi still does not go. Whereas with Mavericks there were no worries !!!

Thank you to do some things because we are increasingly complaining about the forum.

I have a Macbook Pro mid-2010

Christian

I've had this problem for ages, tried many of the thing on here then just gave up. There would be some success, then boom, wireless goes down again. Was frequently getting only getting 1-2 Mbps. Couldn't stream movies and audio anymore, just terrible.

Thought I'd wait for an update from Apple, and along one comes. Installed it, but still had the same problems.

But what's this? A couple of days later, it's working again. Only one thing I did, power down, removed the power cable and restarted. I was doing this to resolve another problem so didn't bother checking the speed again (it hadn't work before). That was yesterday, and today I checked the speed, it's back to 50Mbps internet, and my media streaming is working wonderfully.

Maybe the second restart fixed it after the update.

Mine will just drop whenever it feels like, and the speeds I have when it is connected remind me of my 14.4 days........this is absurd. I have a 200 dollar router and had blazing fast speeds when I was running Mavericks. Now? Complete garbage. Was hoping the update would fix it......nope. FIX THIS APPLE!

It has gotten worse for me after the patch update this week.

Previously I was able to use terminal to force the wifi off, and the on, and off and on etc. Now that doesn't seem to work very well either. Getting sick of shutting down/restarting and zapping the PRAM SMC every hour.

I should also mention as I'm attempting to evaluate the Wifi (connectivity monitor etc) the machine will occasionally freeze and restart. Mouse is unresponsive for 20 seconds or so.

I keep getting messages saying Safari cannot connect because it cannot establish a secure connection. Everything is slow, particularly Youtube and Facebook (Facebook is practically inoperable). Apple you're letting us down.

I started getting the issues only after the latest update this week.

Option+click on the Wifi icon and it shows 7Mbps connection to my wireless ac router.

This is a Netgear Nighthawk (so its not old kit) with latest firmware. Never saw this before the latest Yosemite update. My Yosemite was a clean install a few weeks ago.

I had crappy wifi with 10.10, then updated to 10.10.1 and lost wifi completely after a couple of days. But after half a day of troubleshooting, below is exactly what I did to get it to work! In other words, as the previous user im_if did, I created a new location in System Preferences > Network and deleted the old one.

System Preferences > Network > Location > Edit Locations... > [gear icon] > Rename Location > [I just called it 'corrupt'] > + (New location) > [I called it 'Automatic' to replace what was there] > - (delete location) > [deleted 'corrupt' location I just created] > Advanced > Renew DHCP Lease.

This worked for me as well, provided I also used the little cog to re-order the system preferences so the wifi network was first and bluetooth dun was last. (Another tweak which seems to have made this solve stable since the last Yosemite update was to change my ipv6 in the advanced setting of network preferences to local)

I am having the same problem. After upgrading to Yosemite from Maverick I am having internet problems. All programs that use the internet through wifi hang up after a couple of hours. I work on my Macbook Pro Retina all day and this is getting really frustrating. I have to restart every time it hangs up to clear what ever is going on, after a few hours it does it again. Seems like a memory thing but only happens when wifi is on. I did figure out if I don’t launch Mail it doesn't hang up. I have tried all the tips and none work for me. It’s something to do with Mail because internet/Safari/programs stay stable when Mail is not launched. Very weird and I don’t have time to trouble shoot this, It’s a busy season now and taking away from my work time. Very frustrating! Time is money! It could take days to figure it out it. APPLE please get that update out.

Well, it's too late. I'm done with it because is pointless and hopeless. I did fix my problem and shared information on this forum. For those of you waiting for Apple to address it through an update will be a long wait. Unless some of you talented software professionals try a little harder and show Apple how to fix their own program. The problem is buried deep in the software structure. No fixes other then Apple's action on either; making it possible for people to officially revert to Maverick or correcting the way Yosemite communicates with so many different networks. Good luck to all of you.

Hey everyone, after visiting the genius bar for the fourth time, Apparently routers with WPA security have been found to drop out regularly with the Yosemite update. If you change your routers security to WPA2 an apple staff member claimed that it would stop wifi dropping out. I corrected my routers security, and had success at first, though after restarting my Macbook pro 15" early 2011, the wifi won't even turn on. I use a Linksys router, and instructions on how to edit security setting on their website are pretty straightforward and really easy to follow. Just posting this in case it helps some people.

^I've tried the keychain fix too, didn't help.

I'm going in for my fifth appointment this afternoon with apple, going to start asking them for petrol money haha