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 Vognbygger,

    Vognbygger Vognbygger Jan 30, 2015 7:13 AM in response to airbrush30
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    Jan 30, 2015 7:13 AM in response to airbrush30

    I have just installed Yosemite, on a 2009 macbook. And im having issues as well, and have tried most if not all of the solutions in the forum. I am testing my progress using chrome. I have found that my issue is related to opening webpages. When Entering a search item in the chrome bar results popup within seconds, however i cannot open any pages...

    resetting network connections gives me a couple of minuts usable internet time.

    Pretty annoying bug 

  • by _fiery,

    _fiery _fiery Jan 30, 2015 7:29 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Jan 30, 2015 7:29 AM in response to tomstephens89

    I fixed my Yosemite WiFi disconnect issues by purchasing a small WiFi Extender with Ethernet port. I don't experience any disconnect problems any longer, since I connected the machine to Extender's Ethernet port (you may not completely turn off Mac's WiFi, just order Ethernet on top of System Network preferences). Configuration of Extender is very simple, but if you connect to different WiFi routers every day, this solution may not be very convenient. In order to select another WiFi router you need to login to Extender (i.e. http://192.168.1.1) and select another hotspot.

     

    A small 300 Mbps WiFi Extender with Ethernet port (you may also need a RJ-45 Ethernet Cable) is available on Amazon for $20-$25.

  • by DavidDundonald,

    DavidDundonald DavidDundonald Jan 30, 2015 8:34 AM in response to _fiery
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    Jan 30, 2015 8:34 AM in response to _fiery

    Now that we have a new patch that is supposed to fix the wifi issues I tried updating to Yosemite today. Unfortunately it still doesn't work. I can't get working wifi on Yosemite while also having bluetooth active. It seems to work fine without bluetooth, but I am not willing to run an inferior system for the minimal advantages of Yosemite.

     

    So, back to Mavericks again!

     

    I must admit, I am now royally ****** off with Apple. This is my first ever Macbook - I was persuaded to buy into Apple by a friend. But I would seriously think twice before buying one again.

  • by peppermint,

    peppermint peppermint Jan 30, 2015 9:10 AM in response to DavidDundonald
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    Jan 30, 2015 9:10 AM in response to DavidDundonald

    sorry, i am not willing to stick around with random and very frequent wifi disconnects under 10.10.2. since 2 days,

    so i rolled back to 10.10.1 through timemachine. with 10.10.1 i had no wifi disconnects or problems at all !

    i am now under 10.10.1 and wifi works like a charm.

  • by mrtjns,

    mrtjns mrtjns Jan 30, 2015 9:43 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Jan 30, 2015 9:43 AM in response to tomstephens89

    I'm back to the 21st century with stable wifi connections after DOWNgrading back to Mavericks...

     

    It's a shame. I was so excited about Yosemite and apart from the wifi issues I really liked it but this is totally unacceptable. There is no way I'm going back to Yosemite.

     

    Apple should put some of its great profits into quality control / improvement. Almost every recent release (soft- and hardware) has had issues that - at least to my understanding - shouldn't have occurred after proper testing. I really like Apple products but I'm kind of starting to ask myself why I should spend so much money on them (I know OSX is for free, I'm talking about the hardware) when all I get back is this...

  • by soso,

    soso soso Jan 30, 2015 9:50 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Jan 30, 2015 9:50 AM in response to tomstephens89

    Bug persists on 10.10.2. In my case, i don't have drops while i use it, but Wifi often do not reconnect automatically after a break (small or longer, or reboot.. no visible pattern). I never had this before Yosemite and my wife's mac on 10.8 has no problem.

  • by j-m-d,

    j-m-d j-m-d Jan 30, 2015 9:58 AM in response to mrtjns
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    Jan 30, 2015 9:58 AM in response to mrtjns

    mrtjns wrote:

     

    I'm back to the 21st century with stable wifi connections after DOWNgrading back to Mavericks...

     

    It's a shame. I was so excited about Yosemite and apart from the wifi issues I really liked it but this is totally unacceptable. There is no way I'm going back to Yosemite.

     

    Apple should put some of its great profits into quality control / improvement. Almost every recent release (soft- and hardware) has had issues that - at least to my understanding - shouldn't have occurred after proper testing. I really like Apple products but I'm kind of starting to ask myself why I should spend so much money on them (I know OSX is for free, I'm talking about the hardware) when all I get back is this...

    I am beginning to think they are not doing ANY regression testing - if it works with the brand new stuff Tim Cook has, they ship it. I doubt I'll go to Yosemite for years, if ever. I only wanted it for phone calls on the iMac, but now I know that requires using the WiFi instead of a wired connection, so not what I want.

  • by steve626,

    steve626 steve626 Jan 30, 2015 10:04 AM in response to peppermint
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:04 AM in response to peppermint

    My employer just announced that, after extensive testing, which has been successful, it is about to roll out Yosemite to all our Macs. We have thousands of Macs here (50% Mac, 50% PC), at a site that extends over a mile with many buildings, all with WiFi, many access points, plus thousands of iPhones and iPads. I think more devices here use WiFi than hard wire ethernet, in fact. Because of the geography, many offices and meeting rooms have fairly low signal levels for WiFi, in fact, yet our connections are robust.  Having been following the threads here, a few observations:

     

    * Some people seem to have experienced hardware problems, e.g. were fixed with new WiFi cards, new routers, or something similar. Some small percentage of Macs do ship with faulty hardware.

    * In cases where Mavericks works fine but Yosemite does not (some of you have clearly shown this), it is possible that the "margins" with Yosemite, because it may be a more advanced or just different implementation of WiFi with more/different features, are lower than with Mavericks. Under the right conditions, it might well work with the older OS but not with the new one. For instance, some of you "fixed" this by getting a new router or an extender and stayed with Yosemite. Others have posted links to other instances where an OS upgrade did not work due to faulty hardware which somehow managed to get by ok with the older, less demanding OS (links were posted here for other instances where this happened, e.g. graphics cards etc.).

    * The most confounding of the reports in these Discussions are those with brand new Yosemite Macs being used as is a few feet from an Airport and WiFi isn't working, yet it does work back in the Apple Store when computer is brought in for troubleshooting, and it does work back home with other devices. These cases seem to eliminate most plausible explanations except for a bug in Yosemite, unless what is happening is that something in the local environment is disrupting the WiFi network. I also think these unusual instances make up a small minority of the total complaints, however, so if it is a Yosemite bug, it is relatively rare, but the cure for these is not readily apparent.

    * "OS upgrade killed my WIFi." If you go back and look through the Discussions for all previous versions of Mac OS X, one sees dozens of these posts for every OS upgrade (or even update). Not that they are not real, but there are always unique situations and these reports do surface. Is Yosemite worse? Hard to say. More than 2000 posts in this thread, but many posters have posted more than 10 or 20 times each There are maybe ~ dozens to hundreds (?) of unique separate instances of WiFi failure reported here? I haven't taken the time to count. But millions are using Yosemite. People don't post generally when it's working.

    * I stop in the local Apple Store and also a local independent Apple-authorized dealer quite often, just to see new products and stuff. I asked last week at the "Genius" Bar and the independent repair center/store if they are seeing a lot of Yosemite WiFi issues. They both said not really, although they said there are always WiFi issues with every OS that they see. My unscientific survey of the problems they were addressing that day looked more like hard drive failures/replacements, OS problems/misbehaviors being fixed with a reinstall, file system issues being fixed with Disk Utility or other utility, miscellaneous hardware problems, and a few instances of iPhoto Libraries needing to be rebuilt. 

  • by PFJ30,

    PFJ30 PFJ30 Jan 30, 2015 10:18 AM in response to AndreasSt
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:18 AM in response to AndreasSt

    Ditto from me and very sorry to hear resolution of this issue is still not available. I had actually tried to load Yosemite when it was first available and bricked my late 2009 MBP! (That might have been a user error but I learned later that Yosemite would not work with 3rd-party SSD's (something to do with KEXT signing). That alone means I'll never load Yosemite.) Restored Mavericks and things have run smoothly ever since...as usual. Looks like I'll be on Mavericks for a very long time.

     

    I have 10.10.2 seeds running on non apple SSD Largely (ha!) ok

  • by kemsei,

    kemsei kemsei Jan 30, 2015 10:20 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:20 AM in response to tomstephens89

    Ok guys I'm not sure this will be working for you and this doesn't really solve the real issue but I found a workaround.

     

    I have been surfing for 24 hours with NO SLOWING DOWN WHATSOEVER. Just so you know, I have a late 2013 MBPR with a Time Capsule as the router. I up(down?)graded to Yosemite in October and since then I hadn't been able to get a proper Wifi connection for more than 5 minutes, even losing connectivity completely at times. 10.10.2 didn't change anything.

     

    Now here is the trick. What I did is plug in a Wifi repeater close to my computer and set it up to repeat my TC WIfi connection. Once this was done, I simply connected to the repeater instead of the TC.

     

    My connection is blazing fast now. Hope this helps. I will keep monitoring and let you know, but I tried all the tricks mentioned all across the Internet and this is the first time I actually see a result, and a great one.

  • by PFJ30,

    PFJ30 PFJ30 Jan 30, 2015 10:26 AM in response to steve626
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:26 AM in response to steve626

    Hi Steve

     

    A recurring element of many of the multiple posters here - me included - is the hit and miss aspect: now its working, now its not, it's sorted, no it isn't.  That is I am sure you can imagine more frustrating that a solid failure.

     

    For me there are times when I can join the 5ghz wifi instantly, solidly and other times, before and after SEED installs etc when I can then I can't then I can...

     

    It certainly hasn't been helped by British Telecom - I have learnt not to say BT here   taking 3 months to update their HomeHub router firmware.

     

    Largely I am ok in so far as I can always connect thru 2.4ghz and ethernet and haven't noticed any major failure with apps etc although now and again I do wonder...

     

    VERY pleased your employer not having a problem.

     

    Paul

  • by PFJ30,

    PFJ30 PFJ30 Jan 30, 2015 10:28 AM in response to fretbuzz1
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:28 AM in response to fretbuzz1

    Keep us updated please. It has been tried lots of times by lots of us but not usually a permanent solution for everyone (sigh)

  • by jndupuis1,

    jndupuis1 jndupuis1 Jan 30, 2015 10:45 AM in response to steve626
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:45 AM in response to steve626

    I have monitored Wi-Fi in Mavericks on my internal HD and monitoring Wi-Fi in 10.10.2 on my external HD. Yosemite 10.10.2 is more stable since it's release in October on my Mac Mini in my Home environment. I was getting 5 to 6 Trashed software maps per session, now, zero. My biggest complaint, as I feel for those in this situation, is that Mavericks is not readily available for download. The option should be there. I do not have an iPhone running iOS 8. I don't want my calls and texts on my computer. That being said, there will be a point where upgrading OS X will be necessary. Mavericks is not that old yet and not dead yet. Reverting back is not like swallowing the bitter pill. It's the frustration of not being able to click on Apple Store and Download Mavericks Now for those who really need it back.

  • by SoulSurvivor,

    SoulSurvivor SoulSurvivor Jan 30, 2015 10:45 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:45 AM in response to tomstephens89

    I installed the latest Yosemite update because I heard it fixed WiFi issues. My issue was that it was dropping the connection several times a day forcing me to drop what I was, attempting to do, manually disconnect, wait for it to fulling disconnect, and then reconnect after which it usually ran okay for a while. Now with the latest update Apple sure have fixed the old WiFi issue, it no longer drops several times a day, it drops several times an hour. Well done guys, high fives all round.

  • by bcanuel,

    bcanuel bcanuel Jan 30, 2015 10:56 AM in response to PFJ30
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    Jan 30, 2015 10:56 AM in response to PFJ30

    Not sure if you are saying it works OK or not. In any case, check http://www.macworld.com/article/2849366/mac-wont-boot-about-yosemite-and-your-th ird-party-ssd.html or http://www.zdnet.com/article/os-x-yosemite-and-third-party-ssds-heres-what-you-n eed-to-know/ . If you are running on non-Apple SSD's, you might be one of the lucky ones, I guess. This is a real issue for some of us.

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