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 ondrafromczech,

ondrafromczech Oct 21, 2014 12:58 AM in response to givacrap
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Oct 21, 2014 12:58 AM in response to givacrap

What preferences will be deleted after dumping these files? I have plenty of them there.
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by Sojourn78,

Sojourn78 Oct 21, 2014 1:14 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 1:14 AM in response to tomstephens89

Same problems as listed above. Please Apple - kinda hard to do stuff these days without an internet connection...
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by fzaninotto,

fzaninotto Oct 21, 2014 1:22 AM in response to mamaricci
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Oct 21, 2014 1:22 AM in response to mamaricci

Turning off Handoff in General Settings seems to solve the issue for me as well. Re-enabling handoff makes the wifi drop again. Thanks for the tip!
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by olipatparis,

olipatparis Oct 21, 2014 1:25 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 1:25 AM in response to tomstephens89

Turning off Hand-off works here too
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by Sojourn78,

Sojourn78 Oct 21, 2014 1:37 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 1:37 AM in response to tomstephens89

I just tried rebooting my modem (disconnected power, waited 10 seconds, plugged it back in). That seemed to solve my problem. I will update if it happens again.
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by Fidefux,

Fidefux Oct 21, 2014 1:54 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 1:54 AM in response to tomstephens89

I have the same problem...

annoying!!!!!!!!!!
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by mick kelly,

mick kelly Oct 21, 2014 2:02 AM in response to MiguelD
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Oct 21, 2014 2:02 AM in response to MiguelD

I went into the keychain access and added Safari as an allowed application! So far so good and I have not been booted from the network
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by Mark Scott5,

Mark Scott5 Oct 21, 2014 2:03 AM in response to mamaricci
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Oct 21, 2014 2:03 AM in response to mamaricci

I'll give this a try but I can't understand why it would be the solution as I have a MacBook Pro and an iMac which both have this setting as you described but the MBP works fine whereas the iMac keeps dropping the signal. Strange.
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by tomstephens89,

tomstephens89 Oct 21, 2014 2:58 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 2:58 AM in response to tomstephens89

Trying all these little changes and 'fixes' is pointless. They don't work and as for turning off bluetooth or handoff... Thats not a fix. Thats a feature, and a feature that I want.

This is a blatant software / driver issue that is related to the Wifi card / antenna. Theres no explanation for not being able to use some wifi networks, whilst others are fine. Especially since wifi was working fine in Mavericks.

Also can people please stop posting "I HAVE FOUND THE FIX!!" after 10 minutes of a working connection since it seems that a short while later, things are broken again.

We need to bring this issue to apples attention. Media websites dedicated to the mac like 9to5 mac and macrumors should be made aware.

Tom
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by NicolaP,

NicolaP Oct 21, 2014 3:18 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 3:18 AM in response to tomstephens89

I agree!
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by Mark Scott5,

Mark Scott5 Oct 21, 2014 3:30 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 3:30 AM in response to tomstephens89

Well said. I expect an update will be released fixing this but let's hope it's sooner rather than later!
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by larkov,

larkov Oct 21, 2014 3:31 AM in response to Andrew-ACT-ACSA
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Oct 21, 2014 3:31 AM in response to Andrew-ACT-ACSA

Thank you Andrew.
Restarting discoveryd did the trick for me.
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by Rizzmanfrommogadore,

Rizzmanfrommogadore Oct 21, 2014 3:50 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 3:50 AM in response to tomstephens89

Well said and true, problem didn't exist until the upgrade so come on Apple, release an update that fixes whatever you broke in the upgrade please!
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by iNeRsHa,

iNeRsHa Oct 21, 2014 6:19 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 6:19 AM in response to tomstephens89

I upgraded to Yosemite last week, I had been battling with wifi-drop issues since launch. I'm a Chrome user, so as a last resort I disabled all my Chrome extensions.

After disabling the Chrome ZenMate extension the wifi issues completely disappeared. To anyone with a similar problem, using VPN/proxy extensions, try disabling those.

Good luck.
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by Mitch Hewitt,

Mitch Hewitt Oct 21, 2014 6:28 AM in response to tomstephens89
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Oct 21, 2014 6:28 AM in response to tomstephens89

Reporting back in after more than 24 hours: It seems different things have helped or solved the issue for different platforms/users/something. On my mid-2010 MBP and my wife's 2011 MBA, we did the solution of deleting wi-fi from NW prefs and creating a new profile names wi-fi2. Neither of us have had problems since. It could be luck. All I can say is that we've at least given it 24 hours with success. I believe there has to be an OS problem at the root, and these solutions are happily helping or fixing it for some of us. I continue to hold my breath though.
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