Wifi keeps dropping in Windows 10 (BootCamp) on new tbMBP 15"

Yes, this is clearly a Windows driver issue. I bought for approx. 3 Euro a USB Wifi dongle and the Wifi connection works perfectly.

I also don't think that this will get fixed in the near future because Apple will not give you any support for wifi issues under bootcamp. I think Broadcom is responsible for the driver but they have a really bad support.

Even if it is Microsoft or Broadcom responsible of fixing it, Apple should help us with this. I really hope they are communicating with both sides to fix this. This is not cheap laptop of cheap brand, and Apple need to force them to fix drivers.

I will leave some feedback and call support again, and ask them to forward my feedback to someone who can do something.

Please, all of you having this problem, even if you fixed it with some alternate solutions (airport, another router or ap, usb adapters etc), leave feedback too.

I was able to completely FIX my issue by changing one driver setting.

Machine Info:

2016 MacBook Pro 15" TouchBar

Broadcom Driver 7.35.118.68

Windows 10 Creators Update

CenturyLink ActionTec C1000A Wireless-N VDSL2 Modem / Router

My bluetooth keyboard was sluggish, and my WiFi had high latency and was dropping the connection continually. Basically unusable.

I went to Settings->Wifi->Change adapter options

Right click on WiFi connection->Properties->Configure...->Advanced

Look for Disable Bands in the list, and choose 802.11a from the list.

I applied that and rebooted, and I have been without issue for a day now. I was about to buy an external WiFi USB adapter. May not work for everyone, but it solved my issues (wifi and sluggish bluetooth) completely.

If you are familiar with dd-wrt and tomato, I suggest downloading Microsoft Message Analyzer (or Wireshark) and analyzing the WLAN packets to see what is not working for a specific SSID/RF setup. I have looked at WLAN conversations on Apple Extremes, but your Netgear router may behave differently.

You can compare the same conversations to the OS X side and note any differences.

I had the same issues in Windows (Bootcamp) on my brand new 13" MBP.

For me it worked to connect to my router via 5GHz wifi instead of via the 2.4GHz network.

None of the other options discussed in this thread (disabling bluetooth, tweaking various device settings for the Broadcom adapter) had any effect for me.

Having the same issue on my late 2016 mbp. Tried all the driver tweaks suggested in this article and no luck. Also on the latest 7.35.118.68 drivers. The Mac side works perfectly fine, but the Windows side is very unstable.

I'm having the same issues here, especially when connecting to my 5ghz network. It works perfectly fine on my OS X side of things, but constant drops and disconnects on Windows 10, have tried reinstalling drivers and tweaking many of the settings to no avail.

Update: I found a temporary solution in changing my router settings for my 5 ghz network to only the "20 mhz" band instead of "20/40 mhz". I suspect the broadcom drivers aren't capable of handling 40mhz connection at the moment. Obviously this isn't ideal but at least it stopped the constant disconnects. Will update if I experience instability issues again, and hopefully we get 40 mhz compatibility in the future.

It works on 2.4G 20/40 or 5G at 40/80. I use an Airport Extreme 802.11ac. Third-party APs can create additional issues. You may want to check the driver settings for 40Mhz and 20/40 coexistence on Windows side, instead of the router being locked to 20Mhz, which cripples the router for other clients as well.

The same test on rMBP2013 also works on tbMBP2016. In my case, the latest update (.68) breaks 11ac connectivity.

The drivers are written by Broadcom, neither Apple nor Microsoft have anything to do with the BC drivers for the 802.11n/802.11ac Broadcom chipset. For every PID/VID that is created by Broadcom, they write the drivers. The macOS drivers are tested and certified by Apple, the BC drivers are Broadcom's responsibility.

simonjo1984 wrote:

Note: the method above was meant to fix bluetooth connection issue with tbMBP. However it fixed the wifi issue as well.

Turning off bluetooth collaboration did not disable bluetooth. I can use 2.4GHz wifi and my airpods at the same time with no issues.

You will also have issues with USBc. Disabling the collaboration does not disable BT, but increases the likelihood of interference, which means you may see random BT or WiFi drops or slow/laggy response(s) depending on the activity on either radio.

Does your macOS side work properly? This 'collaboration' is 'automatic' in macOS.

There are deeper packet scheduling issues on the Windows side, which need to be addressed by Apple/Microsoft.

Bluetooth/wifi works perfectly in OSX, I only had issue with wifi in bootcamp.

I believe the driver settings of BT collaboration only applies in windows.

Yes the driver is buggy, but until apple releases a stable driver fixing this, losing a few packets is better than no connection at all. It's more a workaround rather than a solution.

I haven't experienced any issue after turning this off, though.

FIXED!!! Working 100% with this small configuration change... 😉

the icon changes to this symbol (disconnected network) and then back to an unconnected wifi when I try connecting to any network. This is not a 5ghz connection, just a sky hub.

Under device manager, for the Broadcomm 802.11ac Network Adaptor, the driver version I have is 7.35.118.68. I didn't get a similar screenshot after the Apple driver was installed.

The newer 802.11a/b/g/n/ac adapters can handle wide channels. Some of the older 802.11n adapters, for example a 2012 MBP, also supports such bands.