Q: OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

I'be been battling on without wifi on my MacBook pro for nearly a month. Update hasnt fixed my wi-fi issues. I've spent hours on the phone to Apple care trying to sort it out, been in store with Apple staff 3 times, and I'm going in for my fourth attempt tomorrow... Yes, fourth appointment. I've done 3 clean installs in store, which haven't helped. I've run Mavericks on my MacBook pro infront of staff to prove its not my computer just playing up. I can't use wifi for more than a few minutes if it turns on at all. Extremely frustrating. I would downgrade, but I can't take a time machine backup from yosemite to Mavericks, and manually dragging accross files will take me hours and hours. The amount of time and petrol spent heading out to Apple appointments and phone calls is disgraceful.

I still have the same issues after 10.10.1. With Bluetooth on it's slow and non-responsive. Turn Bluetooth off and it's lightening fast. No Bluetooth...no mouse etc. What has happened to Apple........

MBP non-Retina 2012: WiFi performance to date:

Mavericks 10.09: had occasional dropouts (i.e. dropped service) at work; fully reliable on home Linksys router; probably reliable in various MiFi devices

Yosemite 10.10: from start: always dropping the work WiFi (after 30secs - 10mins approx); occasionally dropped the home router; often dropped the MiFi

Yosemite 10.10: after trying the various workarounds suggested: always dropping the work WiFi (after 2 - 30mins approx); fully reliable on the home router; probably reliable on the MiFi

Yosemite 10.10.01: always dropping the work WiFi (after 1 - 10mins approx); fully reliable on the home router; probably reliable on the MiFi

So it seems 10.10.01 is maybe slightly worse for me, despite my high hopes. Happy to see Apple working on solutions though and look forward to Mavericks reliability by 10.10.3 ;-) at which point I'll consider my new Mac upgrade (I'm at my notebook renew cycle time but would prefer not to revert to a Dell or somesuch - however I need reliable WiFi for work and cloud applications access. Currently using MiFi at work but its not ideal due to cost/speed).

I just updated Yosemite to 10.10.1 and nothing have changed.

I have the 2012 Retina MBP and as soon as I activate the Bluetooth, the WIFI literally disappears.

As a long time Hardcore fan, This is the 1st time I see the MAC OS Team have let a bug like that slip for General Distribution.

When I was using the Beta, this issue was not there. Hope it will be fixed soon.

Thanks everyone for all the helpful sharing.

I experience problems since upgrading to 10.10.1. No problems before.. Can I just downgrade?    

Hi,

My overall experience with Yosemite is great.

However, my performance and productivity have taken a hit with the issues I have experienced.

I will be receiving a new Mac Pro tomorrow, which will have Yosemite on it. At that point I will be downgrading all my upgraded machines including the new machine back to Mavericks.

I don't have time to research solutions and to work my way through them. I've lost enough time and missed deadlines as it is.

Hope this gets rectified in the near future. :-)

Tip to everyone - Make clones of your system and easily revert to previous installs when needed.

If I were you do what I have done upgrade to Mavericks everything works !

Upgraded to 10.10.1 yesterday and if anything the Wi-Fi problems have got worse - internet drops out far more often and it is noticeably slower. Interestingly I have only ever had problems on my university's wireless network, at home my Wi-Fi is fine.

So this problem is not yet fixed? I went back to Mavericks some time ago and have had no issues since. I keep getting messages from Apple about "upgrading" to Yosemite but am reluctant to do so since I really need to have a working wifi connection.

Should I wait a bit longer?

DavidDundonald wrote:

 

So this problem is not yet fixed? I went back to Mavericks some time ago and have had no issues since. I keep getting messages from Apple about "upgrading" to Yosemite but am reluctant to do so since I really need to have a working wifi connection.

Should I wait a bit longer?

Many users (The percentage I don't know) across the world are affected by this problem. There are probably many which aren't. Whether or not you will be affected is very uncertain. But there is a good change that you will.

If you want to even the odds, keep checking back at this thread and google. And wait for a lot of post stating that the issue has been fixed.

So yes wait.

or - if you want to have a little fun, clean-install Yosemite on either a different partition or disk. That way you can test and if you have trouble just boot up from your main partition.

That is how I and I take many other developers are doing it when testing i.e. a pre-release. Install Pre on a separate partition and do all main work there. But if for some reason problems occur - it takes 2 minutes to boot into the other and stable OS.

IHTH

I upgraded to 10.10.1 from Mavericks the other night and everything looked good.

Then, I got up the next morning, logged into my mac, and my wifi constantly dropped.

In my case, I seem to only be able to keep a connection to my airport if I use the 2.4 ghz connection, NOT the 5ghz one. The 5ghz connection will try to connect and drop after a few seconds.

The 2.4 ghz connection works but has noticeable but inconsistent lag while surfing or playing games.

I may do a clean install of 10.10.1 this weekend, but after going through the list of "fixes" for 10.10 (including two separate clean installs) I'm not confident anything is fixed with 10.10.1

Guess I'll roll back to Mavericks and wait for 10.10.2

Yes I would recommend definitely holding off on upgrading to 10.10.1. I am tempted to revert back to Mavericks but at the moment I just don't have the time at the moment. My advice for you for now would echo MortenJamesCarlsen in that you should keep checking back to the forums and wait to see if the issue is fixed.

Exactly what I was thinking. We pay a premium for Apple products. Wifi is so basic on any device...and for it not to work on an Apple? These techie types need to stop blaming the customers for demanding a properly working product for the price they paid. If a mechanic were to make a recommended 'upgrade' to your car, and it ended up making it not turn left (i.e. a very basic function), would you not be ****** off? I chose Mac over PC because it was seamless and user friendly. Now it isn't.

Broheme wrote:

 

These techie types need to stop blaming the customers for demanding a properly working product for the price they paid. If a mechanic were to make a recommended 'upgrade' to your car, and it ended up making it not turn left (i.e. a very basic function), would you not be ****** off? I chose Mac over PC because it was seamless and user friendly. Now it isn't.

Yes I would... But what if I brought back the upgraded car to the mechanic, yelling and screaming and the mechanic says, ok let me check this and he comes back after the test drive and says, 'it turns left just fine, try yourself.' And then you take it for another spin, with the mechanic next to your and all of a sudden you are able to turn left again. Then you on the way home, you hit the neighbour fence because the darn thing, yet again, would not take a left turn.

Look, I am one of those techies you refer to and I am not saying that you, I or anyone else should NOT demand perfectly working products. Apple and other quality product vendors demand from themselves to deliver those demands. Nothing less. But when it doesnt work and there IS a problem (And 10.10.has Problems with Network) then screaming, yelling and calling names may make those who freak feel better but will do absolute nothing to solve the problem.

I have never ever been able to fix a software or problem by yelling at it. Never.

I don't live in the past. I live in the foreseeable future and to make that as pleasant as possible I report bugs and try to actively contribute to fixing problems which I don't want to encounter in my little foreseeable future.

Apple provides products for which you as you stated pay a premium. And they provide a software solution which enables you to surf the web and take full use of the hardware. It is called OS X Mavericks. Apple also provides a free service which you can choose to use if you please, called Yosemite. If it does not satisfy your needs, just install the version that works. It is not like you don't have a choice... So make the correct one.

Last night,   I had to buy a 50' Ethernet cable for my brand new MacBook Pro.    This is so so sad.