firstwardo wrote:
Not randomly, per se, I was just poking around and noticed that both the WLAN miniports, and the network issues weren't present immediately at boot, so I looked into disabling them.
Disabling WLAN Miniports causes VPN clients to crash. Some VPN clients, for example, Cisco AnyConnect installs it's own mini port driver, and if removed, it crashes the VPN client.
Modifying the band support settings may make 802.11n 5G work on some APs and cause failures on others. If you modify such settings, please also specify what APs were in your environment where this was tested. Anyone who travels and goes to different locations for wireless access is prone to such failures.
The driver on the tbMBP is not negotiating properly what the dynamic settings on the driver should be based on the negotiations with the AP. As an example, 802.11ac on 5G works, but 802.11n on 5G does not, as noted by johnsimons.