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Some OS X Yosemite Users Plagued With Wi-Fi Connection Issues

I noticed this day one. I never install a new OS as my main OS so I can try it out. My 13MBP running 10.6.8 gets 50Mbs over airport, but from the Yosemite test partition it an slow to a crawl or disconnect then work fine if I turn off wifi and turn it back on.

When trouble shooting, I assigned it a fixed IP from the router but Yosemite refused to give up its old IP even on a reboot. That was my guess in the problem, that Yose is not handling IP addresses correctly. This is why people are seeing this more on large networks, as Yose is creating network conflicts. I've seen this before with Windows 7 machines pulling the same ip as another computer on a network despite the routers DHCP trying to give it a new one.
 
This has happened here and there. Mostly on our MacBook Air (average of once a week) and also (less frequently) on MacMini and also new MacPro. I find that though it happens the least on my MacPro, I get some serious latency and this is usually resolved by turn WIFI on and off.
 
HyperZboy said:
I've never even gotten that to work at all. Apparently, my $5000 Mac Pro does not have the right flavor of Bluetooth so I need to just trash it instead. :eek:

I don't ever use it anyway, but my version of Final Cut Pro also is completely disabled along with Yahoo Messenger. There will apparently be no fix for either of these "issues" so those programs are EOL for me.
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Which version of FCP are you using? There are threads on here that have a workaround for using older versions and it's really simple. Just open it from the package or something like that. Do a search and you'll be able to find it.
 
Since upgrading, my iPhone tethering and personal Wi-Fi has been ok but my university Wi-Fi is too unreliable now where it used to be fairly solid.
 
I'm following Apple and Apple products since OS X Tiger, and with every new hardware and software release there are Wifi issues. Very weird they keep occurring.

I do notice that my Apple products do not have Wifi connection in places where others do. Always have been like this. Luckily I'm not suffering connection drops.
 
I dont know about Yosemite (as I plug ethernet to my iMac all the time). But on my iPad Air with iOS 8.1 it will drop WiFi when inactive for some time. Never had a problem with iOS 7. Definitely the OS.
 
I haven't yet to run into any WiFi situation at my house. I might be insanely lucky or it might be because I'm using the new Apple's Airport Extreme. Most of my colleague from the Apple Store don't seem to run into any WiFi issues.

The only time I ran into the WiFi issue with Yosemite would be when I was at Akihabara Train Station, but I thought maybe the train station's WiFi were filled with too many users.
 
DarkCole said:
Why is it that every major release there's WiFi issues?
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At a guess, they fork off the next OS development cycle well before releasing
the previous one (i.e. 10.11 is already under production and 10.12 is probably
being planned/prototyped). That means that bugs that are eliminated in an older version are still present in a newer
version (and sometimes, different fixes will be needed because of changes
elsewhere in the OS).

I have only just gone to Mountain Lion on my machines (and was happy with Snow Leopard until I was forced to upgrade), and will skip Mavericks completely once Yosemite is stable.
I don't need most of the fluff they have been introducing with recent releases (I don't think I have ever used any of the twitter/facebook integration, for example), and I do need my machines to work. Generally, the OS upgrades seem to be fine on contemporary machines - they seem to have most problems with hardware that is not current.
 
Annnnnnd this is why I don't "early adopt" OS/iOS releases from Apple these days. I don't like playing the role of ginneapig to beta test supposed market ready releases. Coming on the heels of the iOS 8 debacle, what a mess.

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iSayuSay said:
I dont know about Yosemite (as I plug ethernet to my iMac all the time). But on my iPad Air with iOS 8.1 it will drop WiFi when inactive for some time. Never had a problem with iOS 7. Definitely the OS.
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Still having these same exact wifi issues on my iP6 and even after the recent upgrade to 8.1. Very frustrating.
 
Honestly, I think Tim Cook should resign. They botched two updates to the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 also has screen problems. Lots of people are having to go through tons of replacements to get a screen without issues. There were also issues with the rMPB screen and creaking cases etc. Now, we have 10.10 basically bricking people's computers. I'm glad I had enough sense to wait on updating this time. Someone needs to be fired at Apple.
 
HyperZboy said:
I've never even gotten that to work at all. Apparently, my $5000 Mac Pro does not have the right flavor of Bluetooth so I need to just trash it instead. :eek:
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What's even worse is that my brand new Mini doesn't have the right LVD SCSI-connector to connect my $200000 disk array. Brand new and unusable from day one! :p
 
Apple and WiFi

For a company that insists on forcing their users to use WiFi they have a spotty record with properly implementing WiFi. I had an iMac in 2011 that I eventually sold because I could never get the WiFi to work properly - they didn't admit there was an issue until after I sold it and then they released a fix. My 2012 MBP experienced WiFi issues until a patch was eventually released. Same thing with one of my iPhones. I don't trust them at all when it comes to WiFi.
 
I'm unfortunately suffering from this problem on my rMBP. To make things worse (and a bit more confusing) it seems to also bring my other devices down to their knees. I'm thinking it's a separate issue but at the moment if I use my MBP my PC will slow down to a halt, too.

I've just tested this by downloading an app on Steam.
1. Without the Mac being awake I get a very humble download speed of 2MB/s.
2. If I turn the Mac on it quickly drops to about 25KB/s.
3. I close the Mac and it jumps up to its original speed.
4. Rinse and repeat, it's an incredibly strange issue.:confused:
 
pendragon1984 said:
Honestly, I think Tim Cook should resign. They botched two updates to the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 also has screen problems. Lots of people are having to go through tons of replacements to get a screen without issues. There were also issues with the rMPB screen and creaking cases etc. Now, we have 10.10 basically bricking people's computers. I'm glad I had enough sense to wait on updating this time. Someone needs to be fired at Apple.
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That is not Tim's fault.

Long before Tim took over there was a going joke that your should not buy REV A apple products, cause your a Beta tester. Apple products have always had issues.
 
Ever Day

Happens to me every day at least 10 times. It either just drops the connection or it says that its corrupted and that it needs to disconnect.
 
Mid 2014 15" rMBP
No dropping connections for me, but occasionally extremely slow Wi-Fi speed :(
 
I find this quite intriguing as I've had no issues (including speed or disconnections) with WiFI ever since Yosemite released, and Im using a MacBook Pro Retina 15" / i7 QC / 16GB RAM / 512GB HDD. Again, not a single issue, and I yet no one has been able to answer my question:-

Q: Since these are all manufactured with identical components and Mac OS X software how can an issue like this only affect certain systems - it does not make sense. Unless its flaky software on certain systems?
 
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