Wifi connection keeps dropping

keep losing wifi connection on laptop El Capitan every 20 min. Have to turn it off, then reconnect.

MacBook Pro with Retina display

Posted on Aug 17, 2016 3:38 PM

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Aug 17, 2016 10:08 PM in response to klhamilton51

This may take a few tries to gwr ro the bottom of it, so please reply.


In System Prefs>Energy Saver, is anything set to 20 minutes?


Go to System Preferences


Click Network


Highlight Wifi and click Advanced...


Choose “By default, join: Preferred networks”


Select your access point and Remove your access point with the minus ➖ button.


Launch your keychain access in Utilities and delete your access point keychain entry.


Reboot


Go back to the “By default, join:” page and click the plus ➕ this time to add your access point. Enter the correct password, save, reboot.

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