Q: OSX Yosemite Wifi issues
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Nov 18, 2014 8:24 PMby MacAwesome88,Off Topic?.... More Than Half of these 73 Pages are Off Topic... and yes the moderator will probably remove my posting but that's okay... at least a few people will see it... "Not Having a Wifi Issue is just Luck" well Lucky me... good thing I don't understand how my computer works otherwise I'd have to quit my day job which is making money with it... It's a Tool I use to create Complex E-Commerce Websites... with DreamWeaver & Word Press... and my Macbook Pro with Yosemite Working very Nicely... I understand HTML 5 and that's what I need to know... and if "Not Having a Wifi Issue is just Luck" then you're a RETARD.
How's that for "comments from children that are off topic and disrespectful"
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Nov 18, 2014 8:44 PMby suinor,I've been following this thread since I installed Yosemite. Maybe I have not read all the 80 pages, but probably most of them. Yes, of course, I'm experiencing the dropping connection issue and tried, with no success, many of the potential fixes suggested above. I also got frustrated updating to 10.10.1.
Reading one of the recent posts where someone wrote about the 2.4Ghz bluetooth/wi-fi interferences, something reminded me of a connection issue I have faced when my iMac 27" late 2012 was just left the box. By that time, I think we were at Snow Leopard age, my internet speed was slow as **** and causing performance loss even on offline tasks. Still by that time, the solution I have found was simple for such a mysterious problem cause: to change the router's frequency channel. So simple that I never wanted to understand what caused that problem.
I know it's a common sense that our problem is being caused by software (Yosemite) and not hardware because everybody's setup was working perfectly with Mountain Lion, but I know people who installed Yosemite in 2-or-3-years-old macs (sorted models) and are happy with their new system which keeps connected and stable over wi-fi. We're a group of people with the same problem but perhaps we have different causes.
Perhaps not.
Every try is a hope and so I tried to change my frequency just because I remembered that it once easily fixed a big problem.
It was set in channel 4 (just because sometimes I make some experiments randomly changing my router's channel to see if I get a better signal for a SmartTV which is distant from the router) and I set it back to "auto". Since that, I have already experienced 6 hours of stable wi-fi connection.
It's too early to say if it has definitely fixed my problem, but if you've been clicking on your wi-fi network every 3 minutes to reconnect, would you please waste a little more of your finger muscles and visit your router's firmware page to check your channel settings? I can't wait to make part of a group of people who have fixed this with the same solution.
This is my first post ever at this forum and I hope it helps one or two. Or three.
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Nov 18, 2014 9:02 PMby sweetcider,Before anyone tries the various workarounds suggested in this forum, I'd strongly recommend users first make sure their router firmware is reasonably current. Here's my experience.
After upgrading to Yosemite, my 5GHz wifi connection just kept dropping. It had been working just fine with Mavericks, so I came here and started reading.
Rather than experiment with workarounds that many people said didn't work for them or only temporarily fixed the problem, I started using 2.4 GHz because at least it worked reliably ... and hoped that OSX 10.10.1 would resolve the 5 GHz thing.
Before I upgraded to 10.10.1 today, it occurred to me that maybe I should update the firmware in my Asus RT-N66U router. I was kind of embarassed to discover my firmware was from April 2012! I had never updated it because everything had been working great before Yosemite ... it's a really good, reliable router.
After updating my router firmware to the September 2014 level (and before upgrading to OSX 10.10.1) my 5GHz wifi worked just fine, at least with 20 MHz channel width (I haven't tested a 40MHz channel width yet). I actually used 5GHz to download OSX 10.10.1.
It took only a few minutes to find the firmware update and install it ... a lot less time than I spent reading this forum!
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Nov 18, 2014 10:10 PMby SeanjaNZ,I'll add my voice to this as well. The latest update may actually be worse on my MBPr. Now I get "your network has been compromised and disabled for a minute" or something like that. That assumes I get connected...
There seems to be a real issue with Asus WIFI routers. I can connect to other types, but the machine dies on Asus. The problem is, at home and at work they use Asus.
So Apple, a month has passed and I still cannot use my laptop; frankly its a real disgrace . Without WIFI, its more or less useless for my job.
Apple needs to get out of the social issues and bring back their focus on making good IT products, just like the old days.
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Nov 18, 2014 10:59 PMby YvesA,Hi,
I just want Apple to know that I have problems with wifi on my MBP'14 since the update to 10.10.1. Before it was slow (not as much as now) but at least the connection was stable.
With the Update, the connection has become terribly slow (35 kbit/s for internet and 200-600 kbit/s over afp to my NAS which has usually about 15-25 mbit/s over wifi) and the connection get's lost every few minutes. The distance between the router and the MBP is only about 3-4 meters, with no walls, heavy desks or something else. My wifi also appears now sometime twice in the list.
I cleared all caches, reset the SMC and PRAM. Also switching from 2.5 GHz to 5 GHz and changing the wifi channel as also completely removing and re-adding the wifi profile did not bring any better results.
I use the Fritz Box 7390 with firmware 6.20 as Router as also the Fritz Repeater 300 in some Rooms. In addition my iPad and my smartphone are connected to the wifi.
I even tried with my TP-Link travel router (TL-WR702N). Connecting to it took forever. The speed had the same slowliness. The connection was still unstable, but not as much as with the fritz box.
(Personal note: I use Macs since years, mainly due to the quality, usability and difference to other manufacturers in therms of Hard- and Software). But what Apple does to its consumers since a few years and mainly in the last month's is only terrible. Not even talking about the software design. Sorry Jonathan, you had already better designs.)
Thanks,
Yves
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Nov 18, 2014 11:25 PMby zimu,with Yosemite i had to reconnect wifi manually everytime my macbook air(Early 2014) woke up from sleep. annoying but acceptable, since once connected, wifi is stable.
things getting worse after the last update: "LOOKING FOR NETWORKS ... ON ... LOOKING FOR NETWORKS ... ON ..." every 5 seconds or so.
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Nov 19, 2014 1:02 AMby soso,Hello,
Not fixed here after 10.10.1 + PRAM reset + SCM reset. The issue in my case is that wifi does not reconnect automatically after a sleep or after leaving home and coming back later. I have to reconnect it manualy. Not always, but most of the time.
I have the impression there was an improvement though in 10.10.1: when i reconnect manualy, my wifi shows quickly now in the avaliable wifi list - when before i had to wait 1 or 2 refresh before seeing it.
Thanks
Francois, on macbook pro 2012
