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

FieldingMellish said:
So Steve is dead and Apple's running around doing updates with booby traps. All the while Tim's having a coming out party? When are these folks going to buckle down and do the software right?!
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Even when Steve was around, they had a lot of Wi-Fi problems.
 
tdale said:
That is a VERY good point. The hardware variables are very very small, Windows machines is huge, yet Apple has ongoing wifi issues. Can anyone comment here on theorn experience who accesses their wifi by way of Airport Extreme or Express?
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I'm running Airport Extreme and Express with Mac Mini's, MacPro, Apple TV's, iPads, iPhone 5c, 5s, 6+..

Yosemite and iOS 8.1..

No connection issues whatsoever. In fact handoff and iPhone calls are ringing fine now thru my Mac Mini's and iPads. Very cool feature! There's something VERYcool about my wifi only iPad ringing and working like a phone ##

Btw : I had serious Wifi issues when I used Apples
stuff with ATT Uverse Equipment. Took them 10 months to realize that their RG and Microsoft software is ****...

Once I got AirPort Extreme and Express all was bliss in my fiefdom :)
 
Yup. The issue is most noticeable when I wake up my Macbook Air from sleep. I do think the issue happens in Mavericks too. I'm guessing the more rigorous power management that doesn't play well with the driver/hardware itself? :confused:
 
Can't say I've had any issues with Yosemite wifi on my Mid 2014 MBP or 2012 Mac Mini on 2.4 or 5 Ghz across many wifi spots.
 
I am having major problems on my MBP. Slow wifi that keeps dropping every other minute. I'm hoping they come out with a fix soon.

But in any event, I have learned my lesson to never update Apple software until they patch up all the bugs in the first release!
 
JamesPDX said:
Yeah, what is up with the QA? Who do they think they are? Compaq?
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Compaq before HP would at least put a check on a circuit board and retire the board after so many deploys to the field. This is concerning because they had this on those boards at all. I'd like to at least have the illusion that was repairing with like-new parts when I was still working on those things. Now that I think of it I should have put checks in all three boxes on every part returned.

I did the pre-public beta and turned in a problem for 10.10 that was addressed in core services.

10.10 was installed fresh on a second partition and I checked in on it every so often to update it. It wasn't until GM when I deleted the second partition and upgraded 10.9 until I started having trouble.

So far my MacBook 2012 has had a few issues with 10.10 GM including, a few graphics artifacts, wifi dropping, hostname auto-incrementing, disk utility unable to remove a second partition on the fly like 10.9 was able to do, and something not playing right with QuickBooks 2015. (QB website stated 2015 was compatible with Yosemite, however that isn't what I found out. QB is more graphics than financials and I think they weren't ready for the graphic system change in 10.10.) Back to 10.9 I go. I hope 10.10 didn't screw up my Time Machine backup. Only another 4 hours until I know.

I've got a MacMini that was also upgraded to 10.10 without any problems. It is in server mode so it doesn't power itself down. It also is not wifi connected. It doesn't connect to any iDevices.

My guess is a big driver pack update will fix a lot of 10.10 problems.
 
mytdave said:
How is it that Apple f's up WiFi with every stinkin' release of a new OS?
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I had serious wifi issues after getting a new Apple thingy a number of years ago, and my guess was that something wasn't properly handling something like DHCP leases (or some other shared resource), causing conflicts. Given the number of things on the network I didn't feel like tracking down exactly which one it was, and just gave everything an assigned IP address by MAC address. It solved the problem, and I've had no problem since then. I had about 20 things on my network back then, and it's up to around 30 now.

Something stepping on something else's space (it may not be IP addresses per se) would account for this issue. The inconsistency, the fact that it crops up again with new devices and OS upgrades, that the same device does okay on one network but not another, etc., is all consistent with something not playing nice with shared resources, and only goes away when that something manages to randomly find a spot where it won't step on something else.
 
Oh, NO!!!

:eek:

You mean we all have to reach around and press the power button???!!!!

Oh, the humanity!

Apple's doomed...DOOMED!!!

:apple:

This is the beginning of the END!!!

Cheers,
Cameron
 
I managed to solve my connectivity issues

Right after I installed Yosemite, internet started to drop regularly and loading pages was extremely slow. I tried various solutions online but the one that worked for me was to create new location under network.
(System preferences > Network > Location > Edit Locations and added a new location by clicking the "+" symbol.)

However, this solution doesn't work for everyone as I read in some forums.
 
my 2010 iMac and 2013 air are fine. My 2010 mac mini has an issue with wired ethernet where if the display turns off it seems to lose my network, I can only tell because I run splash top all day long with another computer on my network and never had an issue but now when I wake the screen (the computer isn't sleeping just the display) it always gives me an error that splash top lost its network connection
 
My 2010 iMac has this problem and seems to have problems losing the connection to the bluetooth mouse as well.
 
It seems that turning OFF Back to My Mac has fixed this issue.

Go to system preferences>iCloud> uncheck Back to My Mac.
 
Bluetooth hands free Audi Q5 now fails...

My 128mb iPhone 6 with iOS8 has been disconnecting/terminating AT&T calls repeatedly. Audi Bluetooth system is clean/unchanged. The 6 has a clean system with no new 3rd party apps and no 'customization'.

My old 5s never terminated a call over Bluetooth.

I've had the 6 since first public day and downloaded 8 then the updates during the first hours of each.

The problem began today.

I've been using since the early '70's and Apples since the II and this is the first time I'm stumped.

Anyone?
 
2012 MBA and I've not seen any issues. I wonder which models are affected. I wonder if there is an issue with certain wifi routers.

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ehmyerson said:
My 128mb iPhone 6 with iOS8 has been disconnecting/terminating AT&T calls repeatedly. Audi Bluetooth system is clean/unchanged. The 6 has a clean system with no new 3rd party apps and no 'customization'.

My old 5s never terminated a call over Bluetooth.

I've had the 6 since first public day and downloaded 8 then the updates during the first hours of each.

The problem began today.

I've been using since the early '70's and Apples since the II and this is the first time I'm stumped.

Anyone?
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6Plus with bluetooth Plantronics headset and no issues over bluetooth. I listen to music and answer and make calls all the time. Have you tried using the headset with another phone to see if it could be the headset?
 
I'll type the standard FAN BOIS response I got when I complained here...

"It's all your fault for not doing a clean install."

Ironically, if you try to report this bug using Feedback Assistant, that program will drop your WIFI too! HAHA!

There are many alternatives though. You could plug an iPhone into your Yosemite Mac with an unsupported Apple accessory cord. That will drop and reset your Bluetooth, then you can re-boot and lose all your work for the day and everything is fine.

As a last resort, drop Mac in a salt water bath while plugged in. :D

Honestly, considering how many times I reported these issues, I feel like Apple wasted my time testing their "Beta" since they fixed NOTHING I reported.

Oh, Yosemite also still boots to an HDTV across the room that I have to turn on. Also not fixed. None of these things were issues in Mavericks.
 
penajmz said:
Yup. I'm affected as well. Drops all the time, when waking up the computer I usually have to turn wifi off and on for it to work correctly too. I have a rMBP.
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this happened to me when I was on Mavericks.

I upgraded from Lion to ML to Mavericks via MAS. For Yosemite I did a clean install. So far so good with wifi issues.
 
Soccer5se said:
No trouble at all for me. In fact, my wifi connection is a lot better! However, I have a ton of other problems like: Messed up Safari screen and can't connect to Google docs through Safari. iOS 8.1 is where the wifi problems exist!
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you are confusing man..first you say no trouble then you say trouble..which one is it?
 
tattooedyuppie said:
That's what they meant by "Continuity".
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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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