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

This is why I always wait about a year before I upgrade to a new OS. I'm amazed every time a new major OS version is put out, there are so many bugs. Yes, I know the software engineers are brilliant at Apple, and they will eventually fix the bugs currently inherent in Yosemite. However, they should have tested wifi and other aspects of the new operating system in real-life situations. How in the world can Apple release a new hyped up OS that has so many WiFi and other issues? That is what is not so brilliant.

PS... I only upgraded to Mavericks about four months ago because of all the issues. Yosemite issues seem worse.

MacRumors said:
OS X Daily has written an in-depth tutorial on how to fix the Wi-Fi problems in OS X Yosemite, which involves several steps like deleting preference files, creating custom DNS settings, and refreshing the discoveryd service, but for users who can't find a fix, the site recommends downgrading to OS X Mavericks until Yosemite is updated.


Article Link: Some OS X Yosemite Users Plagued With Wi-Fi Connection Issues
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djfirth said:
I deleted the plist files as suggested and my Yosemite experience does seem to be better. Made it through a long iTunes download last night without any fuss. My Mac does not seem to be back to where it was with Mavericks, but at least it works.
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So why not "downgrade" back to Mavericks and have a better performing computer??? I will not upgrade to Yosemite until I am certain these problems have been solved and Yosemite performs better than Mavericks.

I don't need the latest OS, which appears not to be as advanced as Tim Cook states, particularly if the performance is not up to par with the last previous generation of OSX. I like getting work done and having my computer perform flawlessly. I can waste hours and tinker with all the settings, but that is not going to get my real work done, and is only going to frustrate me. My computer is a tool, not a toy, and I don't have time to open up the virtual hood (bonnet) and fix this file and that setting.

Apple should not have released this until the major bugs, like wifi connection and stability, were fixed. It's outrageous that such brilliant engineers have released a product that makes people tear their hair out. I am sure they will release major fixes and eventually eliminate all the bugs and performance issues. I imagine it will take about a year and then it might be safe for me to upgrade. Yes, some of the features in Yosemite are a great improvement, but what good are they if I can't use them efficiently.

In the meantime, Mavericks is performing beautifully for me.
 
JPIS said:
Why did the a school allow the IT person or tech teacher to install Yosemite, assuming they updated existing machines? Our school always made us wait at least three months or more until the bugs were ironed out.

Now, if these are newly purchased machines that arrived with Yosemite, you're out of luck I fear.
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Just a few other people who decided to try it out early. All the students are staying on Mavericks until this is sorted out.
 
Anitramane said:
My school has 10gb over fiber and we are 100 people at the school. Do the math ;-)
Sweden is awesome.
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The internet in a lot of places in my school is great. Library I get 200 Mbps down.

But the dorms I'm lucky to get 5. And there are certain class rooms where it just flickers in and out.
 
Me, too

Stable on Mountain Lion but drops out on Yosemite. I've got an Apple WiFi base station, too.
 
Airport Extreme/Time Capsule disconnects from Internet

In my case, the WIFI is working okay, but a new Airport Extreme Time Capsule disconnects from the Internet when a Yosemite machine connects to the network.

In late August, we replaced an aging wireless router with an expensive Airport Extreme Time Capsule. Everything was great. WIFI was significantly faster, setup was easy, everything stayed reliably connected, and the network wide Time Capsule was nice.

When Yosemite was released, I upgraded my MacBook Air and iMac (2011 MacBook Air, Late 2013 iMac). My wife uses an older iMac running Mavericks, a Sony PC (Windows 7) and iPad daily on the network. I use the iMac and Macbook Air on the network when I'm home (I travel weekly).

So Internet connectivity issues were insidious. I would come home and we'd start having Internet issues. Finally I had as stretch of days at home at the end of October and our Internet would be working fine and randomly be lost. I naturally blamed the cable company because, well, they are easy to blame. To Time Warner's credit, they were fast in thorough with their trouble shooting. They reluctantly blamed my Airport Extreme. "If you connect a computer directly to the cable modem, you can verify it." I did that and they were correct.

So I spent the next day with Apple support. Culminated in a trip to the Apple Store where Apple swapped the Airport Extreme Time Capsule for a brand new one off the shelf. Took it home, set it up and all was well. The older iMac is closest to the router, so I was using it (and Mavericks).

Later I decided to show her how I was checking the status, since I was about to leave. She had no experience with the Airport Utility. So I started it up on the new iMac and as we were watching the little green dot turned yellow. No Internet again! Yikes.

I left town and she had planned to use the Internet at her nearby office while I did some research on the road. I quickly found the Yosemite connection and called her to pass it along. "Funny, Internet has been working fine... and your iMac is shut down."

Normally, being the long time geek, I show up and things "just start working." Yosemite is killing my rep. I show up and the Internet "breaks." ;)

-Jack
 
You can add me to the long list of 'Wi-Fi droppers'. (though I'd imagine Apple has got the message by now:) )

Weird but I never had problems with dropping my Wi-Fi in past OS X versions and in fact, I 'had' no problems like that with Yosemite either. But, out of the blue it (late 2008 MBP) started dropping the signal. I could connect to two or three websites at a time without a problem ( I've always had eight or ten websites up at a time without a problem) but after that it just won't connect at all. In addition, I get an occasional message I've never (in almost 7 years of owning this laptop) seen before that says something like ' Another device is attempting to connect to your network', what!? I keep taking screenshots of the list of local Wi-Fi connections to see if there is a correlation between getting that message and someone in particular logging on.
 
Wifi Issues on iMac $ Macbook Pro

Just upgraded my Macbook Pro 6,2 yesterday after thinking OS X Yosemite was stable enough on my iMac mid 2010. It seems like after yesterday 11/5/2014, both machines are dropping wifi connectivity throughout the day. I have always seem forums where this was an issue, and up till Yosemite, I have never had these issues, but now I do and it's a real pain in the burro... Luckily i still have Mountain Lion 10.8.5 installESD on a bootable thumb drive and if all else fails, I still have my Snow Leopard 10.6 CD's with 10.6.8 update on USB.... I miss Snow Leopard... Linux Mint KDE is looking better by the day...
 
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Maybe it has been said in this thread already, but 10.10.1 appears to resolve the majority of the issues I was having with wi-fi. Hopefully it does the same for everyone.
 
WiFi Issues

My I-Mac is worthless since I upgraded to Yosemite. I am not savvy enough to do the fixes. Everything was fine until that upgrade. Do. Not. Do. It!!!
Was also getting ready to buy the new I-Mac with the 5000k retina display but who needs a machine that can't stay on the internet??
 
psik said:
Update will in beta fire testers that's why
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The last few days I'm back to having zero problems with my Wi-Fi. I couldn't have more than 2 or 3 web pages open at a time now I'm connecting to 10 without a problem. My connection was having all the symptoms described in this thread. I just checked and my OS version is still 10.10.

Was there an update that came through without me knowing and that doesn't show up in the OS version? Anyone else notice their Wi-Fi problems have suddenly cleared up?

Weird
 
ArmCortexA8 said:
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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All the variations on the user's end. What modem they use, what internet provider they have, what router, conditions in the area interfering with the wifi signal, what else people have installed on their computer, etc. There are a ton of variables completely out of Apple's control.

I'm also having zero problems with wifi after Yosemite upgrade.
 
laurim said:
All the variations on the user's end. What modem they use, what internet provider they have, what router, conditions in the area interfering with the wifi signal, what else people have installed on their computer, etc. There are a ton of variables completely out of Apple's control.

I'm also having zero problems with wifi after Yosemite upgrade.
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So it's completely coincidental when a user was previously using Mavericks with no (zero) WiFi connection issues and as soon as they upgraded to Yosemite the issues started?

Seems unlikely and it's been reported in that way numbers times in this thread alone.
 
^^BIGMac said:
So it's completely coincidental when a user was previously using Mavericks with no (zero) WiFi connection issues and as soon as they upgraded to Yosemite the issues started?

Seems unlikely and it's been reported in that way numbers times in this thread alone.
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Well, if it's Yosemite's fault alone, why do I and many others have no issues (MOST users or this would have made the national news like other issues have)? Granted, it could be a combo between something that changed in Yosemite and the particular oddities of people's personal setups that is blocking some kind of access refresh but it's not just Yosemite or it would affect everyone. Networking has been touchy its entire existence. One of the reasons I hate Windows computers is my past hair-pulling trying to set up a simple ethernet network between computers. Nowadays and with Macs it's infinitely easier. Is it really a stretch that some people would have to do something to refresh their particular connections or eliminate whatever is interfering? Some people have a habit of tweaking their computers to the point that any change like an update will kill their system. Not saying that's the issue but so many times in the past, people complaining about something will eventually say "well, if I disable this add-on or turn off this or that special variable" it works again." That would be the first thing I would check out. Not to mention people with subpar internet service and ancient equipment to begin with. Just saying there could be a lot of factors in play and I'm confident that if any of it is within Apple's control, they will fix it.
 
Hopefully 10.10.1 will solve the issues for now my MacBookPro seems to be functioning better after doing the following.

I am running and el cheapo Belkin router on which I turned off the 5GHz band. Set security to WPA2 Personal.

On my Mac I switched from DCHP-Automatic to DCHP-Manual and issues the computer an IP address from the range my router recognizes.

For the past few days it's been running well with no drops or errors claiming my IP address is being used by another device. Seems that on my end it went back to the same issue I had a few OS's back where the IP address assignments and renewals were hosed up somehow.
 
laurim said:
Well, if it's Yosemite's fault alone, why do I and many others have no issues (MOST users or this would have made the national news like other issues have)?
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That's a fair question but when the only variable that changed was the OS it kind of points to that. No? No issues prior to updating and then major issues? Tough problem I suppose but for most normal users that are not capable of trouble shooting this issue they do and should expect it to "just work"...
 
Re: Power cycling the router

hellabyte said:
What?
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I think it was meant as a joke; given that most routers, modems, andAirPort Extreme Base Stations, etc. have no power switches: You have to restart via the Airport utility -which you can't use unless either [a] Your WiFi allows you to connect to the AEBS, or Your mac is connected to the AEBS via ethernet.

Or you have to unplug the device(s) and plug then in again and hope that fixes the problem.

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laurim said:
Well, if it's Yosemite's fault alone, why do I and many others have no issues (MOST users or this would have made the national news like other issues have)? Granted, it could be a combo between something that changed in Yosemite and the particular oddities of people's personal setups that is blocking some kind of access refresh but it's not just Yosemite or it would affect everyone. Networking has been touchy its entire existence. One of the reasons I hate Windows computers is my past hair-pulling trying to set up a simple ethernet network between computers. Nowadays and with Macs it's infinitely easier. Is it really a stretch that some people would have to do something to refresh their particular connections or eliminate whatever is interfering? Some people have a habit of tweaking their computers to the point that any change like an update will kill their system. Not saying that's the issue but so many times in the past, people complaining about something will eventually say "well, if I disable this add-on or turn off this or that special variable" it works again." That would be the first thing I would check out. Not to mention people with subpar internet service and ancient equipment to begin with. Just saying there could be a lot of factors in play and I'm confident that if any of it is within Apple's control, they will fix it.
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Are you on Comcast?
 
luckydcxx said:
wifi is horrible, why does apple have such a hard time with this on the MBA?
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If this were a beta test discussion: given the lack of information my advice would include a clean installation and/or safe boot.

I like the Darwin foundation avatar, by the way.
 
I had not trouble at all until I upgraded to Yosemite. I have 4 other computers in the house, 2 ipads, 2 phones. They all still work! Please don't blame the consumer. One of the reasons that we buy these products is that they are easy to use! :(
 
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