Occasionally when using my 2012 13" air to browse safari or download files, the connection will slow down to a stop, and the safari bar will just sit there at the initial inch or two of blue.
The performance decrease is more notable when I'm upstairs (router is downstairs), however the air still reports 4 out of 4 bars of wifi strength, so it doesn't seem to be something with the router. Is the signal strength indicator simply inaccurate, or could there be a hardware/software problem somewhere?
The issue generally fixes itself when I restart the mac, at least for a few minutes, but turning the wifi on and off isn't enough.
The performance decrease is more notable when I'm upstairs (router is downstairs), however the air still reports 4 out of 4 bars of wifi strength, so it doesn't seem to be something with the router. Is the signal strength indicator simply inaccurate, or could there be a hardware/software problem somewhere?
The issue generally fixes itself when I restart the mac, at least for a few minutes, but turning the wifi on and off isn't enough.