all of a sudden my apple devices lost wifi connection

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all of a sudden my apple devices lost wifi connection

Hello,

today I experienced an odd and really annoying problem. At about 1pm my Apple devices lost the wifi connection. All of them: Two iPads (iOS 8.2), a MacMini (10.10.2 ), a MacBookPro (10.10.3 beta) and an iPhone 6 (8.2). I thought that my router (openwrt) was down, but the internet radio (wifi) worked fine, and two android devices (5.1 and CM12) had no problems, too.

As I had lunch that time i can prove that I did not change anything ;-).

Till now I changed the wifi channel, switched wifi off and on and rebooted the router - nothing helped.

Can you imagine what could make all my Apple devices disconnect from my wifi?

Thanks in advance,

Sven

Posted on Mar 30, 2015 8:02 AM

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Answer 1

Lexiepex

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Mar 30, 2015 8:22 AM in response to Sven Koesling

If you have a modem with WiFi built-in and no Other WiFi routers, it must be the modem: although you restarted it already, I propose to do it again: disconnect it from the mains, wait haf a minute, then connect it again, in the time that it starts up stop WiFi in your Apple things. When you see the modem restarted fully, activate the Wifi in say your iPhone: does it see the WiFi? If Yes: Does it ask for a password? If NO: does it connect? If yes: does it connect to internet? If No: ask for a new Modem.

Lex

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Answer 2

Mar 30, 2015 8:58 AM in response to Lexiepex

Maybe I was not clear about that: It's only the Apple Devices. I just booted Linux on my MacBook Pro - WiFi works like a charm...

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Answer 3

Lexiepex

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Mar 30, 2015 9:24 AM in response to Sven Koesling

Ah yes, so other equipment works well ?

Mmmm, funny, I would know what to try when it is just one Apple tem, but all at the same time....

Try following: remove the Wifi from the favourite or preferred networks, restart the Device and then join the "newly" found network with password and such.

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Answer 4

Apr 12, 2015 8:24 AM in response to Lexiepex

Thanks a lot! It's really a strange situation.

I will try and install another OS on my router and see if this helps.

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