Q: OSX Yosemite Wifi issues

Warszawa wrote:

 

Thanks for your suggestion. I misunderstood by thinking to clean install Yosemite instead of Maverick. Clean install Maverick on my i-Mac would be a little too complicated for me to perform. My technical ability are not as good as some of you on this forum. I just wish that I didn't trust Apple. Well, I did learn my lesson once again and will never repeat this mistake again. Also by going through Yosemite and more time spent browsing I discover many other bugs or software "disagreements" which could correlate to the WiFi issue. One of them is an automatic renaming of my i-Mac in the Air Port Utility. Before, while running Maverick my computer was under one name now Yosemite adds to my i-Mac name numerical order as 1, 2 and 3. This issue is being discussed in one of forums with no fix found up to date. I did run Macintosh HD "Verify Disc Permission" and "Repair Disc Permission" in Disc Utility and will see if that is going to stabilize my i-Mac renaming and stop WiFi from dropping. What do you thing about replacing my current 3 years old Air Port Extreme with a new one? I read that the new tower shaped Air Port Extreme is much more capable then the old one.

Yes there are bugs in 10.10. If you find any, report them to feedback @ Apple... In a detailed form. They DO listen.

Dont loose your faith - they'll fix this - sooner than later.

PS - This is NOTHING compared to what we had to go thru with Mobile.me ;-)

Similar issues:

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

After upgrade to Yosemite:

     - Wifi connection issues

     - Not possible to connect my bluetooth mouse, it connects/disconnect erratically

     - After I disable bluetooth wifi seems to become more stable.

     - Shame : Upgrade = Downgrade

OceanDrifter,

It's Finder thats causing it to freeze and take forever to shutdown because of the wifi issue. Finder has to check thats all connections are terminated before closing just like Explorer does in windows and this is why many different bugs are appearing. the wifi issue appears to be router DNS related and clearing caches temporary solves issues until the offending process rears it's ugly head again.

In my case

The duplicate hostname(numbering) issue was resolved by changing my computer name under sharing (and not just removing the number) on both machines

The issue of my mac freezing and having to shut down manually was resolved My turning MBP IPv6 off and on and setting my iMac to manual IPv6.

But i don't use BT on my MBP as it screws with my iMac Keyboard/Trackpad/Mouse and i don't have a 5G network

still not happy with it I took the plunge and did clean installs

crazy as it sounds i did 2 clean installs twice because the first got screwed up by the Pages update and set everything back to screwed up

the second install i did, was with wifi and all my iThings turned off and installed in 15 mins and i didn't have to do any of the tweaks (so clearly made a difference turning every thing off, i mean i took the batteries out of everything even my wifi bathroom scales)

And it's all been fully functioning for about a week now and it now reboots in seconds

it makes a new TM backup but you can still get to the old ones easy enough if you know what your doing

And i have tried my MBP in 3 different locations office/pub/home with no issues so far...

Kevinski_uk

Thanks for the reply

I have just turned iPv6 off - we'll see what happens

I have done a clean install twice but then I used migration assistant to transfer and so probably nullified the benefit. Too many apps to install manually.

Another problem I had is that none of my MSDOS FAT drives would mount - after much effort I found the msdosfs.kext file was missing.

I've  no idea how the kext file came to be missing through 2 clean installs but I have seen a few threads about MSDOS drives not mounting; the drive appeared in Disk Utility but the partition wouldn't mount. After installing the kext file all was good. Let's hope wifi will soon 'all be good' too.

Guys, I heard today of a second developers' beta for OS X version 10.10.1. Into the release notes there's WiFi into the Focus Areas, so they are hopefully fixing this. If somebody registered as an Apple Developer could tell us if there were any improvements, it would be awesome.

I just went to an external wifi device to connect to the internet... seems fine now.... not using the wifi on my iMac but using a little amplified wifi adapter that uses a Railing 3070 chipset (THAT has it's own problems with Yosemite.... you have to find a modified driver online for it in order to work with Yosemite ..... just an FYI if you decide to go that route.... I found one that works on this page: http://store.bearextender.com/pages/support) - so until Apple finds a 'fix' for this I am using an external  Wifi adapter from now on......  hope this helps  (there are many of these devices on Ebay - I got mine for only about 16 bucks with free shipping.... was well worth the trouble..... internet is finally working now with no dropouts every couple of minutes.... I tried most of the "fixes" here and have had only limited success (not sure why wifi turns to crap after a short while after it seems to be 'fixed')......  anyhow.... just wanted to pass this along.

That is an encouraging news. I don't want to be skeptical or negative but how much longer is going to take Apple to release a fix? I doubt if it is going to happen before Christmas. Meantime, how we suppose to use our computers?

planetfifa wrote:

 

Guys, I heard today of a second developers' beta for OS X version 10.10.1. Into the release notes there's WiFi into the Focus Areas, so they are hopefully fixing this. If somebody registered as an Apple Developer could tell us if there were any improvements, it would be awesome.

Bete Testers are under NDA and are not allowed to divulge any information pertaining to Betas.

oh well,

turning off IPv6 didn't last - thanks though, gave me momentary hope!

All very frustrating

Very good point. The beta versions of any software are for internal study and not to be share publicly. I have mentioned it before but I'm seriously considering dropping $200.00 on a new 2014 Airport Extreme. My current 2011 Airport Extreme connected to Motorola 2011 Surf Board cable modem is 3.5 years old and could be causing my WiFi signal to drop(?). Again, the signal almost never drops during browsing or lite computer use. It drops a frequently when I download movies to an external USB connected LaCie Hard Drive or during streaming these movies to an Apple TV for play back via Home Sharing from my 2012 i-Mac. What do you guys think? Should I go for it or continue hopping that Apple will fix it one day. As I stated; I have lost trust in Apple, especially in their software design department. Did any of you resolved dropping WiFi signal after downloading Yosemite by replacing router?

Channell change on wifi router  (usually you'll be directed to go to a URL like http://192.168.2.1) and find the section where you can select a different channell http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/

Am now using Mavericks on my laptop...... feels SOOOOOO much better....  am looking forward to 10.10.2.

My Wifi issues has been sorted out and working without any issues from the last 10 days.

It automatically fix after I connected my iScan Air wireless Scanner to the wifi and connected back to my home wifi..

The only change I made in my network preference is to set the the ip6 link local only.

Now my connection is no more dropping.

my Macbook now is never disconnecting I did some steps which are delete your wifi and add it again, set service order and put wifi in the first instead of Bluetooth and apply then shut down you Mac after that press shift,control,option and power for 5 seconds and start it again,,,, hope that help   

Have had the same issues over the last week since upgrading to Yosemite. Wasted HOURS AND HOURS trawling through forums for a fix and tried pretty much everything.

What has finally worked for me was changing the type of wireless security from WPA Personal to WPA2 Personal.

Connected permanently again!!