Q: OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

Here is my situation: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3.

Real simple: I had dramatic drops in wifi speed - e.g. from 80 Mbits to less than 1 Mbit. Didn't ever go back to 80 but did recover to 3-4 mBits then back down again. Solution (from reading a post here): SWITCH OFF Bluetooth and REBOOT Mac (just switching off Bluetooth and not rebooting did not work).

On reboot, I get my 80 Mbits back. I hope this post enables Apple to further investigate this annoying problem although it seems that there is almost certainly more than issue here.

Attached are system and wifi details.

hi,

i installed second beta update 10.10.1 and safari 8.0.1 but still dns-lookup issues...

really disappointing atm!

You really ought to read the document on discussing Pre-Release Software in Publich Domain.

You are infringing upon terms !

There is a reason it is called a BETA. It is NOT yet in a release state. So coming here and crying Wolf is not going to provide anyone with any valid information.

You are spreading false and non-valid information. Hold back on the gossip until 10.10.01 is officially released.

OK  - so wifi staying out after sleep is a known issue - that's all I came here for.

So.. this worked on a MacBook Pro 2012 with a recent Yosemite upgrade (might have been mentioned somewhere in this thread):

Couldn't connect to a Belkin router (of some kind - it was remote support so...)

• Changed network location to Automatic
• Deleted all Keychain instances of saved passwords for WiFi network (be sure to write down passwords 1st if they're not stored elsewhere!)
• Deleted all memorized instances of WiFi in Network Settings
• Checked the "Change Networks" under "Require administrator authorization to" (Network -> Airport -> Advanced -> Wifi Tab)

Re-joined and no issues now!

I seem to remember having to deal w/ this post-Mavericks as well.

Hope this helps!

Hi Miguel, your solution actually solved my issue as well: Same user on two Macs, one goes to sleep causes the other to loose Internet connectivity

Thanks for that, Greg

Yep on 10.10.1 beta I am still getting the DNS stall thing where it sits there trying to resolve names.

Really annoying. Makes internet browsing basically impossible and horribly inconsistent. OSX yosemite is basically unusable. I would have expected such a fundamental problem to be fixed in the beta in which it has existed for nearly 2 months now....

OK  I reinstalled Mavericks and I am no longer experiencing WiFi issues.  The WiFi drops are related to Yosemite. 

Apple,

You need to test the OS on all hardware you've sold and support before releasing the upgrade.  I understand that you've probably incorporated software from third parties to support the various hardware component you've used in your products.  I also understand that it can be expensive to test all these iterations.  You charge a premium price for your product and I think it appropriate to expect quality in your approaches.  I am very disappointed that you released a half baked product and have been so slow to address these issues. 

Nick

I kept on having this problem and fixing it temporarily with all the fixes I could find on the internet.  Then a week or so ago I realised that my iMac had the same settings as my MacBook Pro, which I use out and about.  There was a list of all the WiFi connections that my MB Pro had been using.  Clearly the two are somehow sharing locations over iCloud.

I deleted all locations on both computers including automatic and then set up new locations.  The first one was "home":  I deleted all connections apart from WiFi for this location.  I did this on both.  On my laptop I then set up "4G" for tethering and only included a USB iPhone connection.  Finally I set up "roaming" for public WiFi sites only.  So far for over a week it's been trouble free.  This has been an intermittent problem for me for at least 2 years but infinitely worse with Yosemite.  If you have two macs and use one when out and about it may be that your home one is trying to use your mobile connections

I think you miss antons2cts 's point. Again you are letting your love affair get in the way of simple logic. Apple should have acknowledged the WIFI issue, instead they said nothing. That appears arrogant and is bad for the brand. Frankly I am getting tired of the 'we know whats best for you' attitude and killing my WIFI has only made this feeling worse.

antons2cts never asked for an apology so I don't know why you wrote an entire paragraph on the topic. After all, like you said, that wouldn't fix the issue. Besides, why bother with an apology when they've got love-sick minions like you running around doing it for them?

Dear Apple, a little less politics, a little less social issues, a little less focus on reworking icons and a lot more focus on quality please.... that's what we want.

best go back to your last OS, dump yosemite I'm having same problem. you can click wifi on and off in wifi menu to get it to load sites .do it fast .

Warning, unless you want MortenJamesCarlsen coming after you, please refrain from criticising Apple in anyway. When you point your finger at Apple, he feels like you are pointing the finger at him too and this appears to be causing him some pain.

Dear Morton, we all expect more from Apple. Maybe, if you can look past your love affair and let your hormones drop a few levels, you might begin to expect more too. Maybe then you will spend a little less time defending, apologising & excusing on their behalf (and frankly you should).

Dear Apple, less social issues, less politics, more quality... please.

It's a matter of caring about the customer who pays your high profit margin after all.

What I expect from a firm like Apple, on day 1 :

a) confirmation that there is an issue

    so I know that is indeed my mac and not my isp, router, interference from the neighbours etc etc etc etc

b) lists of products affected

c) list of fixes (if any) and workarounds
    so I do not have to WASTE MY TIME only to find out that NONE of the solutions floating about work

d) estimated time to fix

    are we talking hours, days, weeks, months ?

e) we have a large nr (quantify) of "geniuses" working on it

    or are they all hanging out in an Apple shop pushing iPhones?

f) list of other known bugs

g) any other business related to this

h) we will keep you informed
    on a daily basis please until this is fixed

I have a mac mini and it was loading slow .I went into wifi advance changed setting to local only works good now.

SeanjaNZ wrote:

 

Dear Morton, we all expect more from Apple. Maybe, if you can look past your love affair and let your hormones drop a few levels, you might begin to expect more too. Maybe then you will spend a little less time defending, apologising & excusing on their behalf (and frankly you should).

I know exactly what I want. Quality. That is why, I take my personal time to write up bugs which are concise and reproducible, so that they can be fixed and make my life better.

The Network issues (This is NOT a WIFI Issue) are unfortunately not so easy to reproduce. Some have them while others don't.

So it is not as simple as saying, 'hey guys - lets sit down and fix it, shall we ?' That there is a bug somewhere in the system, is undisputed and these forums along with grand parts of the web are proof of it. But just because there is bug which is quite obvious, one can only fix it, if the source of it is located. And apparently this is not as simple as we would all like it to be.

I can understand that you would feel better if Apple comes out and make a statement about it. And if you want to accomplish that, posting about it here is a waste of good server-bytes and your own time. This a user-to-user forum. Good for providing i.e. temporary solutions to this bug. Solutions, if followed correctly will work in most cases.