tomstephens89

Q: OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

Hi there,

 

I upgraded my Macbook Pro Retina 15" (mid 2014 revision) to OS X Yosemite last night and am now having issues when using my home WiFi connection. Whilst it connects to either the 5Ghz or 2.4Ghz network, it is basically unusable. Web pages take minutes to load (if they even load at all), dropbox doesn't sync because it can't get a connection and even trying to get to the router config page is extremely slow and hit/miss.

 

Tethering to my iPhone seems to work ok, as does using my home network via wired ethernet.

 

Are any others having problems with Yosemite? Wifi was working fine on Mavericks.

 

Tom

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 12:37 AM

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  • by boogybren,

    boogybren boogybren Oct 20, 2014 12:23 PM in response to mamaricci
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    Oct 20, 2014 12:23 PM in response to mamaricci

    mamaricci wrote:

     

    I just tried something, which so far seems to be working. Go in to your Keychain access - System. Find your wireless network - double click. There are two tabs, Attributes & Access Control. Go into the Access Control and check "allow all applications to access this item". Mine was defaulted on confirm before allowing access, which I think was knocking me off every time I tried to do anything.

     

    I'm not sure, but this is the first 10 minute period I haven't been knocked off since upgrading last night. Good luck!

    This didn't work for me.

  • by boogybren,

    boogybren boogybren Oct 20, 2014 12:26 PM in response to boogybren
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    Oct 20, 2014 12:26 PM in response to boogybren

    Folks, before you get all excited and come in and say "THIS WORKED FOR ME!!!", give it 24 hours before you post it to confirm that it actually DID work for you.

     

    What I am seeing is people getting stoked that this fixed their issue right away then posting about it.  I would venture to guess that some people see failure after the fact some time.

     

    Or you could at least word your post something like "well, it appears to be working right now, I will follow up in a day or two to confirm that it still works".

     

    For people who actually read these threads, seeing that something didn't really work would save those of us reading time in troubleshooting.

  • by glassc1ph3r,

    glassc1ph3r glassc1ph3r Oct 20, 2014 12:41 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 12:41 PM in response to tomstephens89

    The following steps were taken to resolve this issue for me.

     

    Changed the TCP/IP settings for DHCP to Manual and assigned an IP from the network to this interface. I used an IP that was higher in the range that was not assigned via DHCP.

     

    Verified the connection was established.

     

    Disabled the firewall in system settings.

     

    Removed the Manual IP assignment by switching back to DHCP.

     

    Re-enabled the firewall.

     

    Turned off the wireless adapter and turned it back on. (Verified the connection to the router)

     

    Restarted the MacBook and verified the connection was re-established.

     

    Put the MacBook to sleep by closing the lid while I attended a meeting. (Verified the connection was re-established)

     

    I do not know which step resolved the issue. However, the issue has been resolved for now.

     

    *****This following line was for testing/verification.

    Connected to another wireless network successfully and reconnected to the original network.

    *****

  • by Kevin Scott Key,

    Kevin Scott Key Kevin Scott Key Oct 20, 2014 1:06 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:06 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Can anyone help me here???

     

    It seems that when i connect to my wireless device's Internet Sharing option (tethering) I can keep my Wi-Fi connection and it does not drop at all. Only when I get home to my Frontier Wireless router, and I try to connect, i keep getting dropped every few seconds.

     

    So, can anyone tell me more about checking settings or the frequency thing or how to make changes in my router or something? i see a lot about the 2.4 vs. 5 GHz and changing and have no idea on how to do that.

     

    Why would I be able to keep a connection from my mobile (non apple) device to my MacBook but from my home router to my device, I have this issue we are all having?

     

    Thanks!!

  • by Karl Smith,

    Karl Smith Karl Smith Oct 20, 2014 1:10 PM in response to nicknish
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:10 PM in response to nicknish

    So far, #1 has worked for me. If you try it, make sure you execute EVERY step, including the REBOOT.

     

    I did leave my WiFi icon in the toolbar a little wacky, but I just turned it on/off and it works as expected.

     

    I can't claim this is the one-and-only fix for the issue, but I'm happy(er) for the time being.

  • by mondroid,

    mondroid mondroid Oct 20, 2014 1:20 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:20 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Same thing here. Wifi gets disconnected very often.

  • by CaffeineOverdose,

    CaffeineOverdose CaffeineOverdose Oct 20, 2014 1:32 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:32 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Strange....Just installed Yosemite on my Macbook Air 13.5 inch early 2014, Macbook Pro 13 in 2012 and iMac 21 in early 2014 and have had no issues.

  • by theziine,

    theziine theziine Oct 20, 2014 1:35 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:35 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Bonjour,

     

    Just upgraded today to Yosemite and had the same Wifi Issues, extremely slow.

     

    Turning off the bluetooth as suggested made it work.

     

    Apple need to fix this quite quickly. Is anyone can email craig federighi ?

     

    Thank you all for your help.

     

    Merci,

  • by Rizzmanfrommogadore,

    Rizzmanfrommogadore Rizzmanfrommogadore Oct 20, 2014 1:45 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:45 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Upgraded and now having issues connecting to wifi at work and home, works fine on the wire but wireless is not working unless I assign a static IP address?  Seems that DHCP is having issues?

     

    Worked fine before the upgrade last Friday to Yosemite!  Hope there is an update soon that will fix this without having to try all of these work arounds!

  • by Harryash,

    Harryash Harryash Oct 20, 2014 1:52 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:52 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Having the same issue.....will not stay connected for more than 30 secs. to my office wifi--never had this issue before with any previous OS. Ethernet does work though.

  • by AjBaab,

    AjBaab AjBaab Oct 20, 2014 2:52 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 2:52 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I had the same issue, I kept stalling out on the net every few minutes which made a FaceTime conversation with a good friend extremely frustrating. I did the Keychain fix and turned off bluetooth and I have not had any stalls so far.

  • by nalexander50,

    nalexander50 nalexander50 Oct 20, 2014 4:11 PM in response to Rizzmanfrommogadore
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    Oct 20, 2014 4:11 PM in response to Rizzmanfrommogadore

    I Concur that DHCP may be part of the culprit. Any time that I am disconnected, my Network Preferences shows that I have No IP Address. I have not been able to test a public network, but on my Uni WPA2-Enterprise authenticated with PEAP(MSCHAPv2), I have terrible connection issues.

  • by olipatparis,

    olipatparis olipatparis Oct 20, 2014 4:12 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 4:12 PM in response to tomstephens89

    exactly the same problem ! Since I turned off my bluettooth, all seems to be ok but no more mouse or keyboard :-(

  • by MiguelD,

    MiguelD MiguelD Oct 20, 2014 6:16 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 6:16 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Out of a bit of frustration, I just reinstalled Yosemite just to see if perhaps it might fix the problem. Since I've already been disconnected once since reinstalling, I am assuming this was not a fix.

     

    Ugh!

  • by JRibbit,

    JRibbit JRibbit Oct 20, 2014 6:39 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 6:39 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I was experiencing both the flaky WiFi and the flaky Bluetooth (Magic Mouse constantly disconnecting/reconnecting on MacBook Pro). Someone had posted that zapping the PRAM seemed to work for them, so I tried the same thing: Shut Down, then started up with Command and P and R held down. To my surprise, this started into the Recovery Disk instead of just zapping the PRAM (maybe I hit Command and R before I hit P?). As long as I was there, I ran "Verify Disk" in Disk Utility on my main disk. It found some problems. So I ran "Repair Disk", and that told me that it could not repair the problems, and I should back up anything I could, then reformat my hard disk and restore from a backup.

     

    I had a Time Machine backup from an hour or so ago, so I just restored from that backup. This took two or three hours. I have now been using my Mac on and off for the rest of the day and both WiFi and my Magic Mouse have not had any problems whatsoever. So it certainly seems like something in that process fixed whatever was going wrong. (Knock on wood.)

     

    It's kinda hard to imagine that file system problems caused WiFi and Bluetooth to be flaky on Yosemite, when they were not flaky on Mavericks. Unless maybe the Yosemite upgrade process somehow caused those file system problems? I dunno, but I'm glad that my system seems to be working correctly now and I didn't have to wait for an OS X update to use my Magic Mouse again.

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