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 levifrompeschiera,

    levifrompeschiera levifrompeschiera Feb 4, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Ikester
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    Feb 4, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Ikester

    incredible situation

  • by ellenfromohio,

    ellenfromohio ellenfromohio Feb 4, 2015 1:55 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 4, 2015 1:55 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I have the same problem.  I will be doing an on-line test for school and it says the internet connection is lost.  I want to switch back to snow leopard.  Does anyone know how?

  • by aidanfromwrexham,

    aidanfromwrexham aidanfromwrexham Feb 4, 2015 2:09 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 4, 2015 2:09 PM in response to tomstephens89

    This is crazy, My main machine for doing work out side of the office and its down. I need it to be back up and working asap!

  • by mugwump2,

    mugwump2 mugwump2 Feb 4, 2015 2:18 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 4, 2015 2:18 PM in response to tomstephens89

    My MB Pro Retina 15 inch (lmid- 2012) would see but not connect to my wifi network after updating to 10.10.2 (worked fine on Yosemite before.) What finally did the trick was resetting the Mac System Management Controller. Instructions here: http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/24/when-and-how-to-reset-your-mac-system-management- controller-smc/

  • by Akos G. Garai,

    Akos G. Garai Akos G. Garai Feb 4, 2015 9:15 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 4, 2015 9:15 PM in response to tomstephens89

    You see it can not be that wide-spread as no Apple "interested" outlet is picking up on it...

    All is quiet so we must be part of a "sporadic" distribution with this problem as almost all of them seem to just report that 10.10.2 resolves all problems (or at least just say that it will)...

     

    No MacRumors, No 9to5mac, No MacWorld, No AppleInsider...

     

    The only one I'd found so far was OSXDaily (http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/30/os-x-10-10-2-yosemite-wi-fi-problems/).

    At the time of writing the article only has 84 comments.

     

    No media attention at all...So our problem is not deemed as "a burning issue" in general...

  • by steve626,

    steve626 steve626 Feb 4, 2015 11:52 PM in response to Akos G. Garai
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    Feb 4, 2015 11:52 PM in response to Akos G. Garai

    Akos G. Garai wrote:

     

    You see it can not be that wide-spread as no Apple "interested" outlet is picking up on it...

    All is quiet so we must be part of a "sporadic" distribution with this problem as almost all of them seem to just report that 10.10.2 resolves all problems (or at least just say that it will)...

     

    No MacRumors, No 9to5mac, No MacWorld, No AppleInsider...

     

    The only one I'd found so far was OSXDaily (http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/30/os-x-10-10-2-yosemite-wi-fi-problems/).

    At the time of writing the article only has 84 comments.

     

    No media attention at all...So our problem is not deemed as "a burning issue" in general...

    The OSXDaily article referenced above is not exactly waving the red flag, as it states

     

    "… It’s important to point out these wi-fi issues appear to be unusual, random, and are fairly rare, the majority of Mac users running OS X Yosemite are not experience networking difficulties. With that said, the apparent randomness of networking problems with some Macs running OS X Yosemite could suggest compatibility issues with particular routers, issues with some wireless networks, or issues related to various environmental conditions, making the problem increasingly difficult to narrow down and troubleshoot …"

  • by hotplug,

    hotplug hotplug Feb 5, 2015 12:55 AM in response to steve626
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    Feb 5, 2015 12:55 AM in response to steve626

    Hi,

     

    Here is my experience on a brand new MacBook Air i7 : I installed a fresh Yosemite and imported my user as new account.

     

    At first I thought it had to do with the SSID hidden. So I check SSID non hidden.

    But it did not suit me quite well it worked.

    So I decided to do a little heavily (and nag) and I removed (do a backup first on the desktop)

    the complete folder "SystemConfiguration" which is here:

     

    /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

     

    I again made my hidden SSID

    I restarted the mac

    I chose "other" in the network list, I inquired the name and pass,

    and I quickly joined my network with hidden security "WPA2-PSK / AES"


    Yosemite has recreated a new "System Configuration" folder with the necessary files inside.

     

    --> Everything works now.

     

    Of course I lost the list of my favorites networks, but I can find them if necessary in the saved file

    "com.apple.airport.preferences"which is in the "System Configuration"


    I obviously tried to replace the new file "com.apple.airport.preferences" by one of my backup on my desk, but it was not working properly ...


    I do not know when again there will be a list of preferred network in my network settings if it will continue to work  without issue


    To be continued

    I'm sick of suddenly Yosemite ...

  • by wifiguru,

    wifiguru wifiguru Feb 5, 2015 1:05 AM in response to j-m-d
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    Feb 5, 2015 1:05 AM in response to j-m-d

    You could always have them ask AppleCare to reach you and vouch for their identity.

  • by Pili77777,

    Pili77777 Pili77777 Feb 5, 2015 7:11 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 5, 2015 7:11 AM in response to tomstephens89

    I have had the issue since 10.10.0. The last 10.10.2 Beta drop (14C106a) did not solve the issue, but made it bearable (no drops on 2.4GHz, stalls limited to 1 or 2 / day, speed usually around ~7Mbps vs 14-16 on Ethernet). I am reluctant to upgrade to 10.10.2 official - wondering if anyone has had negative experiences upgrading from the beta releases ?

  • by johan-kristian,

    johan-kristian johan-kristian Feb 5, 2015 12:12 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 5, 2015 12:12 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I now have two customers with this issue.

     

    The first one upgraded yosemite himself, and we ended up connecting him with a couple of home plugs and bit of ethernet cable. He then got notification that this 10.10.2 update, that were supposed to fix "WiFi issues". Yeah, right - that update bricked the machine, network wise.

     

    He brought the machine with him, and I got it up and running here. The machine was still dead at his place, though. I went to his place, tried all the various fixes, but he still had poor WiFi. I ended up reinstalling Mavericks, but since he used the macine a while with Yosemite, we couldn't revert by using Time Machine.

    We're still not finished fixing up his system.

     

    I also have another customer, an 84 year old lady that does video editing for a hobby. She got a new mac recently and got it updated at a local shop . Baaad mistake... It's now started to have network problems as well...

     

    I've got her up and running, but I did a ping from her old mac to the new one, and I noticed that I got back a lot of DUP replies for each ping... Has any of you people tried to ping the problem machine from another on the same network?

     

    Apple really needs to get their act together with Q/C on their software releases. This issue has gotten to the point where I can't really reccomend a new mac to people, and I used to be a member on Guy Kawasakis Evangelist...

     

    Johan-Kr

  • by therealikt,

    therealikt therealikt Feb 5, 2015 3:03 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 5, 2015 3:03 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Exactly. I asked them not to call me at my office, that's weird, and I'm not going to beta test your software. It should have already been done.

    Also, I had to submit this reply 3 times, since it kept saying "user Grayn280 is banned", no clue who that is but it's not me. Cant even fix a forum glitch

  • by therealikt,

    therealikt therealikt Feb 5, 2015 3:07 PM in response to ellenfromohio
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    Feb 5, 2015 3:07 PM in response to ellenfromohio

    use internet recovery, search Apple for directions

  • by LisSun,

    LisSun LisSun Feb 5, 2015 10:58 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 5, 2015 10:58 PM in response to tomstephens89

    At this point I will never upgrade ever again. I already knew this lesson from Apple. How could they still be beta testing with customers after all these years.

     

    I am experiencing internet drops across all browsers. I use it to for remote project management constantly and of course I stream video from my viewings accounts- this is where I see it the most of course.

     

    I don't know what they fixed, but Yosemite is still dropping wifi connections. I have 10.10.2.

  • by peppermint,

    peppermint peppermint Feb 5, 2015 11:46 PM in response to LisSun
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    Feb 5, 2015 11:46 PM in response to LisSun

    i understand that you are upset. if you need wifi for working and earning money, like me, there is a temporary workaround:

    you can disable bluetooth in your macs system settings, then wifi is working fine, i experienced. also you can roll back to 10.10.1, like i did, then wifi is working fine, too. (10.10.2 wifi drops randomly and frequently, in my case). at least in my office with a neglegtable number of other wifi networks (4 or 5). at home, where there are a lot more wifi networks (20 or 30 in the house), i use a mbair with 10.10, i experienced random wifi drops throughout the whole year 2014. interference?

     

    i would support apple to solve this issue, and i would participate in the apple seed program to help solving the wifi issue.

    i think that accusations are not constructive. we all know how apple earns money, if this is morally or not is another question, and would fit into another topic, in my opinion, so lets start to solve the wifi issue.

     

     

     

  • by ramogida,

    ramogida ramogida Feb 6, 2015 6:22 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Feb 6, 2015 6:22 AM in response to tomstephens89

    Please can someone explain this situation?

    My MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) running 10.10.2,  after boot has nice wifi in OSX and in Win7 running under Paralles 10; After a wile the wifi drop in OSX side but still nice on Win7 side!

    Parallels is running its network adapter in bridged mode, meaning it's visible to the Extreme as a separate machine.

    The Mac's wifi hardware must be working, since it's good enough for Parallels on the very same machine.

    What is it, then, that's causing OS X to not connect to the Internet?

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