Keeps dropping and reconnecting. Pretty sure it's not the wifi because on MacOS and my iPhone, both have stable connections. It's probably a driver issue, anyone know a fix?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.1), 2016 15" w/ Touchbar
Had the same issue, bootcamp in 15" tbMBP 2016 can connect to 802.11n/ac 5GHz wifi, but does not connect to 802.11g 2.4GHz wifi whatsoever. Too bad that iPhone personal hotspot is a 2.4GHz network, it means you can't tether an iPhone with windows bootcamp.
After reading this post I felt the issue could be with interference between the broadcom card's wifi and bluetooth part.
then I came across this post and the solution actually worked like magic:
Re: Wireless (Bootcamp) and Bluetooth (MX Anywhere 2) issues on MacBook Pro 13' 2016 w/TB
In short:
Type "device manager" in your search thingy in Windows taskbar and open it
Open "network adapters" dropdown menu
Double click your Broadcom 802.11
Click "advanced"
Select "Bluetooth Collaboration"
Change value to "Disabled"
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 should not have to, the card is the same on both sides. You can check it on the OS X side.
Just flabbergasted and flummoxed with the Infinity Loop and these tb devices. 😠
Just checked my drivers. I see the same issue, a/b/g modes only. No N or AC
Create a Windows System restore point, boot into Windows Safe Mode, uninstall the driver for the wireless adapter, and delete the adapter and boot normally and check if the adapter is re-discovered. If it is available, manually install the BC driver.
I have manually installed the latest BC driver. It is from September of this year.
In Windows, do you see the n/ac antennas on the Mac itself? We are not talking about the 5G Access Point radio yet.
I'm sorry, what exactly do you mean 'see the antennas on the Mac itself?'
The Access Point may be broadcasting 5G, but unless the Mac's 5G antenna is enabled, the beacons will not show up on Mac/Windows. Can you run Powershell and use Get-Netadapter and then we can proceed from there? You can also use netsh wlan dump .
Here is the information from the command line dump. I found the current network and it says it is connected though 'n' band, so maybe that is working. Still doesn't solve the 5g connection issue.
The antenna/radios on the Mac are fine, based on this dump? Do you have two different SSIDs, once each for 2.4G and 5G?
I do. One is my normal network name, the other one is the normal name with '5g' after it. Different passwords too, not as if that matters.
Forget both 2.4 and 5G networks on the Windows/Mac so neither is a known network. Try to connect to the 5G network. Do not connect to 2.4G at all, even if your adapter can see it.
I tried that. I forgot every network and deleted any saved passwords and SSID's. Still nothing.
Please look in Event Viewer for any events related to this wireless adapter.
There are a ton.
The second image shows the event info.
Sorry for not updating on this post. Turns out for me, the problem was with my university wifi. I guess the wifi point isn't able to handle the sheer number of devices connected to it. Soon enough after I noticed this problem, the same effects carried over to MacOS. While Wifi wasn't dropping on and off, the connect was pretty terrible and loading anything was a pain. I decided to invest in $30 D-Link AC router and everything has been stellar since then. I can connect to the 5GHz band with no problem, and I'm assuming that's using the AC type standard. Bootcamp has no issues in terms of Wifi. I have not noticed any issues with Bluetooth either. I will mark this as helpful and keep this open incase people still have the original problem I was having and it is not linked to their wifi access point.
Wifi keeps dropping in Windows 10 (BootCamp) on new tbMBP 15"
