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Random Wifi Drops

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b00st4ddicted

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Apr 20, 2011
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Dear All,

I just got the 2013 13" MBA base model yesterday. Everything is working out well except for random wifi signal drops. I have been doing some researching on google and it turns out I am not the only one that has this problem. I just want to know if anyone else is experiencing this and if so what did you do to fix it. Thanks in advance.
 
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Astrofox

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Jul 24, 2011
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b00st4ddicted said:
Dear All,

I just got the 2013 13" MBA base model yesterday. Everything is working out well except for random wifi signal drops. I have been doing some researching on google and it turns out I am not the only one that has this problem. I just want to know if anyone else is experiencing this and if so what did you do to fix it. Thanks in advance.
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I've been experiencing drops when my 2011 MBA goes to sleep lately. I thought it was my router, but it might be the last update causing it because it has never happened before.
 
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b00st4ddicted

macrumors member
Original poster
Apr 20, 2011
37
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Astrofox said:
I've been experiencing drops when my 2011 MBA goes to sleep lately. I thought it was my router, but it might be the last update causing it because it has never happened before.
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mine just drops randomly while browsing the internet.
 
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hmp

macrumors member
Jun 25, 2007
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I was experiencing the same problem on my 2013 MBA 11". The connection would drop when I would go to a particular coffee shop, but not at home or other places.

Surprisingly, making a change in Keychain Acesss, as suggested by this link, has fixed the problem:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/25/potential-fix-for-an-annoying-macbook-air-wireless-issue/

I launched Keychain Access, searched for the SSID of the network I was having issues with, went to Access Control and changed the setting to "Allow all applications to access the item".

Worked for me and the connection hasn't dropped since.
 
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b00st4ddicted

macrumors member
Original poster
Apr 20, 2011
37
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hmp said:
I was experiencing the same problem on my 2013 MBA 11". The connection would drop when I would go to a particular coffee shop, but not at home or other places.

Surprisingly, making a change in Keychain Acesss, as suggested by this link, has fixed the problem:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/25/potential-fix-for-an-annoying-macbook-air-wireless-issue/

I launched Keychain Access, searched for the SSID of the network I was having issues with, went to Access Control and changed the setting to "Allow all applications to access the item".

Worked for me and the connection hasn't dropped since.
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thank you so much for the link. I will definitely give that a test. I honestly don't care for anywhere else because I am home most of the time hahaha...
 
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zedtech78

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Mar 30, 2011
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Toronto, Canada
I had intermittent wifi "stalls" the first couple days but everything seems to be normal now. I say stall because wifi was still connected, just wasn't responding.

Mine's a 13" Ultimate Edition FWIW.
 
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