xxymoxx
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Mac OS X

Q: wifi keeps failing on macbook pro

Hello there,

 

Just over the past few weeks my MBP is keep on losing WiFi connectivity. I have a constant ping running in the background on Terminal and when I notice web pages or email not responding I flip over and can see that the pings are failing. Now the other laptops I have in my office (Windows) are all working fine so there is no WiFi or broadband issues, the problem only exits here on my Mac. I run diagnostics and surprisingly enough it doesn't find anything but miraculously the WiFi starts working again - pings responding, however this is probably as drags has restarted the WiFi driver.

This is happening all the time and I cannot find any fix for this apart from running diags or turning off WiFi on the Mac and turning it back on again.

My hardware is MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), running the latest 10.11.6 (15G31) release.

 

Any ideas would be great.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11), MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch)

Posted on Aug 18, 2016 4:49 AM

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  • by Nawk Andersen,

    Nawk Andersen Nawk Andersen Aug 18, 2016 5:04 AM in response to xxymoxx
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    Aug 18, 2016 5:04 AM in response to xxymoxx

    Hi xxymoxx,

     

    You could try resetting your wifi preferences.

     

    Note that this might reset any custom configuration you have done for your interfaces.

     

    1. Go to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

     

    2. Take a backup of these files and then move the originals to the trash.

     

    com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.apple.network.identification.plist

    com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist

    NetworkInterfaces.plist

    preferences.plist

     

    3. Restart your computer.