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 Christzsun,

    Christzsun Christzsun Oct 19, 2014 5:38 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 5:38 PM in response to tomstephens89

    First time poster here. I'm new to Apple, I own a Macbook Air 2014. Constant issues with Wifi since upgrading to Yosemite. Hangs on web pages and same issues whether I am on my router or my mobile hotspot through an Android phone. Tonight was so bad had to restart multiple times just to get a few pages to load before hanging again. I just turned off bluetooth and everything has been working perfect for 30 minutes. I know other solutions have been proposed but that is what has worked for me so far.

  • by KieranN92,

    KieranN92 KieranN92 Oct 19, 2014 5:42 PM in response to Christzsun
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    Oct 19, 2014 5:42 PM in response to Christzsun

    Sorry everyone, but I don't use Bluetooth at all, tried turning it on and off and the Wifi still drops out after a couple of minutes, on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands... thought I was doing something wrong but looks like others who have upgraded are sharing my frustration! I'm on a Late 2013 MBP Retina 15", can't understand how something so fundamental in the software can be this buggy? Any practical solutions anyone on what to do to get around this? Besides turning WiFi on and off...

  • by KieranN92,

    KieranN92 KieranN92 Oct 19, 2014 6:01 PM in response to KieranN92
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    Oct 19, 2014 6:01 PM in response to KieranN92

    I just got in touch with an AppleCare representative, you can potentially try resetting the System Management Controller, there is an article here on how to do this, and it's easy and safe Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - not sure if this is the solution for everyone, but I have had some success so far, lets wait and see how long it will last!

  • by KieranN92,

    KieranN92 KieranN92 Oct 19, 2014 6:31 PM in response to KieranN92
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    Oct 19, 2014 6:31 PM in response to KieranN92

    And Handoff is working for the first time as well, so maybe this has solved the problem? Let me know if anyone else has the same result

  • by Heatmiser,

    Heatmiser Heatmiser Oct 19, 2014 7:19 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 7:19 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I was able to maintain a stable connection with my 5 Ghz band but not my 2.4 band. Whenever the 2.4 band would start cutting out, I noticed my mouse would lose connection, as well. I did the bluetooth plist delete/restart and all has been well after that. I've been using internet on the 2.4 band for several hours now.

  • by paul709539,

    paul709539 paul709539 Oct 19, 2014 7:38 PM in response to MiguelD
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    Oct 19, 2014 7:38 PM in response to MiguelD

    I have this issue, MBP Retina Late 2013.  Slow wifi, drops out.  Connected to a 7.7.3 AirPort Extreme and  time capsule.  Great signal strength.  It just drops out randomly!

  • by Heatmiser,

    Heatmiser Heatmiser Oct 19, 2014 7:41 PM in response to paul709539
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    Oct 19, 2014 7:41 PM in response to paul709539

    paul709539

     

    Any other symptoms? If you're having bluetooth mouse sluggishness or disconnects, try the bluetooth plist solution listed above. If not, try the other solutions in nicknish's post on page 2

  • by adsussman,

    adsussman adsussman Oct 19, 2014 7:41 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 7:41 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I was reading on another post about this.  They suggested the following in Terminal to keep BT and WIFI.

     

    sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.airport.bt.plist bluetoothCoexMgmt Hybrid


    I gave it a shot and was able to connect with WIFI (disabled my ethernet which seems to be fine through all of this).  Did not try it for more than 15 minutes that way but it seems to have helped for the moment.  Tomorrow when I'm not on hard wired connection I'll try it for longer and report back.

  • by centsy,

    centsy centsy Oct 19, 2014 7:48 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 7:48 PM in response to tomstephens89

    For me, I lose my connection occasionally while Time Machine is doing a back over wifi. It doesn't happen every time, but it only drops during the backup.

  • by Somebal,

    Somebal Somebal Oct 19, 2014 8:48 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 8:48 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Hey there, yeah I am having similar issue. I am running Yosemite on  a MBP 15" early 2011.

    At office I am running two routers

    1) Linksys wrt54gc v2 dd-wrt - I can get connected to the WIFI but only to get cut off every 40 seconds or so (even when i disable wpa & wpa2);

    2) Linksys wrt56gl Tomato 1.25 - it has stable connectivity but at a snail pace. Pings takes forever to complete (never), but oddly listening to online radio is fine.

     

    At home I am running a Huawei router, WIFI or banwidth has no issues but instead Bluetooth connectivity to my wireless keyboard and trackpad range is only good with in 0.5 meters from my MBP before "lost connection" and "connected" starts dancing on my screen.

     

    I do hope fixes for this comes out soon in OS X 10.10.1

  • by SavKhetan,

    SavKhetan SavKhetan Oct 19, 2014 8:53 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 8:53 PM in response to tomstephens89

    Hi everyone,

     

    I have 13" MBP Retina - Late 2013. Upgraded to Yosemite yesterday and started getting having issues with wi-fi connectivity. Would drop the connection every couple of mins (even in the middle of an active download).

    Tried all the solutions listed here. Nothing was a permanent fix.

     

    Finally might have found a solution on Reddit.

    My router is a mixed n/g/b router and was running all 3 bands.

    I changed to 'g' only and it hasn't dropped the connection since. 20+ mins now. Longest connection since the upgrade yesterday.

    Will try 'n' only in a little bit.

     

    I have a D-Link 665 dual band router.

     

    Hope this helps.

    Sav

  • by MClarkSJ,

    MClarkSJ MClarkSJ Oct 19, 2014 9:56 PM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 19, 2014 9:56 PM in response to tomstephens89

    I am having the same issue when using my AirPort at home.  I will have to see if the same issue persists when I am at work.  One thing that I have just changed that appears to be working is to do the following steps:

     

    (1) go into network preferences

    (2) Select Wi-Fi on the left side

    (3) Click on advanced

    (4) Click on proxies

    (5) Unselect all proxies (mine was set to auto proxy)

    (5) Click ok

    (6) Click on apply

     

    I was loosing my connection every 30 seconds and would have to turn off Wi-Fi and then turn it back on in order to have internet connectivity.  After turning off the proxy setting, I have been up now for an hour.  I hope that this was the issue.

  • by Rbn,

    Rbn Rbn Oct 20, 2014 2:20 AM in response to tomstephens89
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    Oct 20, 2014 2:20 AM in response to tomstephens89

    Thought I was the only one but turns out others are having this issue as well.

    What bothers me is that for example YouTube doesn't even work. First it starts buffering on 480p then turns back to 144p and even that won't load. Tried this on Safari and Chrome and both problematic.

    I'm on a 5Ghz network but my 2.4Ghz network doesn't work either. How can this be so hard to solve? I remember having this issue too when Mavericks just came out.

  • by Why Can't I sign in,

    Why Can't I sign in Why Can't I sign in Oct 20, 2014 2:34 AM in response to giumangiu
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    Oct 20, 2014 2:34 AM in response to giumangiu

    This worked for me. Was getting kicked off every few minutes, now have been connected for over an hour without issue.

  • by Phil 1960,

    Phil 1960 Phil 1960 Oct 20, 2014 3:38 AM in response to mamaricci
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    Oct 20, 2014 3:38 AM in response to mamaricci

    Thank you - I made this change and have had perfect connection for 12 hours now.

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