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brinkeguthrie

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Just had wifi drop for the first time in FOREVER. A restart and it's back. Strange. And it wasn't the router.
 
I’m also having Wi-Fi issues with my M1 MacBook Air + Ventura 13.0.1.

Sometimes speed drops around 50-70% compared to normal and I get big latency spikes while pinging my own router (sometimes more than 100 ms while sitting next to the router).

Upstream is affected more than downstream, to the point that sometimes the Speedtest app would hang for a few seconds or give up entirely at the beginning of the upstream test.

Restarting the machine fixes the problem for a while (maybe half a day). I also just discovered that disabling and reenabling Wi-Fi from the menu bar seems to be as effective as restarting the machine to temporarily fix the problem.

Edit: I'm adding a video that first shows the issue (first two speed tests in the video are slow/not working) and then demonstrates how it is fixed by simply disabling and reenabling Wi-Fi from the menu bar (the following two speed tests in the video are OK, expected speeds are 600 Mbps down /200 Mbps up).

 
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I'm having an issue where WiFi remains connected to a network upon waking my Mac (2021 MBP 14) but the internet completely doesn't work. Switching to a different network, deleting/reconnecting to the network, and deleting the network .plist files have not resolved it. I'm not in a position to test if traffic functions within the local network.

The annoying part of it is that I haven't really figured out when this happens, because sometimes the WiFi works as it should upon resuming from sleep, and other times it doesn't.
 
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