Home Wifi Affecting Mac? Anyone else?

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Home Wifi Affecting Mac? Anyone else?

I've posted about battery drain when in sleep over the past week or so.

The long and the short - When I sleep my Mac and I'm home, 10-11 hours later, I'm down in battery from 100% to around 88-89% almost every night.

When I am traveling for work, and do the same, I don't lose anything or 1%.

Anyone else ever have an issue like this before? I have Verizon FIOS 100mbps and the router they provided to me.

I also shut my wifi off when I was at home one evening, and when doing that, I didn't lose any battery life at all.

Trying to determine why it would wake up, or apparently wake up, or run something under these circumstances but only doing so when I am at home connected to my router?

Anyone with thoughts? Would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook, iOS 9.3.2

Posted on Aug 3, 2016 10:21 AM

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Answer 1

sberman

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Aug 3, 2016 11:42 AM in response to spasel

If this concerns you, use the Console utility (in Applications > Utilities) to examine your log list. (Be sure View > Show Log List is set.)

You can examine your machine's overnight activities this way.

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spasel Author

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Aug 4, 2016 7:56 AM in response to sberman

So I have seen this and actually performed this as well. Here is my problem, and I know to many here, it'll be kind laughable...I have ZERO idea what I am supposed to be looking for.

There's a lot of activity that happens from 10pm-3am and I have no idea how to parse out what is causing my machine to potentially use a lot of energy and what is normal. This list is very long.

Anything that I can do to narrow down this long list and help me see what is causing this?

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Answer 3

sberman

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Aug 4, 2016 8:57 AM in response to spasel

Well, you're interested in the differences between at-home behavior and travel-for-work behavior. Presumably when you travel for work, since there's less activity, you'll see a lot less in the Console log.

So use the travel-for-work log as your baseline, and get a feel for what additional sorts of things you see at home.

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