MacBook Air wifi?

[Audit13]

Smc reset: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201295

Pram (now called nvram) reset: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204063

 

[Boyd01]

I tried the test twice at fast.com with my 2013 MBA, got 70mbs the first time and 91mbs the second time. I am using 802.11ac wifi with an Apple Time Capsule and have 150/150 FIOS internet. Using the MBA with a network disk on my home network, I get about 60 Mbytes/sec (that would be 480mbs).

So the MacBook Air can do very nicely on wifi, but you need a router that can support the correct protocol.

 

[Audit13]

I tried the test twice at fast.com with my 2013 MBA, got 70mbs the first time and 91mbs the second time. I am using 802.11ac wifi with an Apple Time Capsule and have 150/150 FIOS internet. Using the MBA with a network disk on my home network, I get about 60 Mbytes/sec (that would be 480mbs).

So the MacBook Air can do very nicely on wifi, but you need a router that can support the correct protocol.

I'm so jealous of your internet speed!

 

[Boyd01]

Well I think I *earned* it. 🙂 Moved to a rural location back in the woods 2006 and there was nothing but dialup so I got a HughesNet dish, which was OK in terms of speed but the latency drove me crazy. A year later DSL became available and I suffered with that for 10 years until last July when FIOS was available. I was only getting about 600kbit up/800kbit down on DSL.

Not sure how accurate that fast.com test is though. I can upload a 1gb video to Vimeo in less than a minute which is pretty close to the advertised 150mbit FIOS speed.

 

[Audit13]

Hmm, I've always lived in a big city and was so happy when I got a second telephone line and a US Robotics 56k modem.

Thanks for confirming that the 2013 Air is capable of such high speeds.

 

[Boyd01]

Hmm, I've always lived in a big city and was so happy when I got a second telephone line and a US Robotics 56k modem.

Haha, you've had it easy. I spent big bucks to get a blazing fast US Robotics 1200 baud modem back in 1985! Was living in another rural area back then, and when moved there in 1979 the only phone service we could get was a 5 party line. There were 5 homes on our road and only one pair of phone wire on the poles! When we finally got a private line 3 or 4 years later, that was a huge upgrade!

But here in my little town (population ~2,000) in 2017, the FIOS installer told me that some customers were still using dial-up and a surprising number of people had no internet at all and their kids had to go to the library and use the computers for their homework. And he also said there were only 100 DSL lines available so I was lucky to have one.

The broadband situation is really not good in rural America. I consider myself very lucky that Verizon stepped forward to offer it here. There was an army of Verizon trucks here all summer!