Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates 120
itwbennett writes: Although Apple has never officially acknowledged issues surrounding Yosemite and Wi-Fi connectivity, the company is clearly aware of the problem: Leading off the improvements offered in the update 10.10.2 update released Tuesday was 'resolves an issue that might cause Wi-Fi to disconnect,' according to the release notes. Despite this, Apple's support forum was filled with tales of frustrated users. And Mac owners aren't the only Apple users experiencing wireless connection failures after updating their OS. Wi-Fi connectivity issues have also dogged iOS 8 since Apple released the mobile OS on Sept. 17.
No shit (Score:1)
Apple has always had complete shit wireless drivers and chipsets for macbooks. I'm honestly shocked they're acknowledging the issue after it's existed from DAY 1 of the x86 transition.
Re:No shit (Score:4, Insightful)
I wonder if these are Broadcom chips, with the driver code actually being supplied by Broadcom. Broadcom drivers are shit.
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they do use Broadcom in iCrap and their computers and their wifi routers. And the word is that if your wifi is apple everything then they use the Broadcom extensions in the chips to make it faster.
Re:No shit (Score:4, Informative)
I've worked with the Broadcom driver source code; it's crap. It doesn't surprise me they're having problems. What's funny is (now that I think about it and remember this from a prior job) Apple is easily Broadcom's biggest wifi customer; you'd think they could do a better job with their software for them, but apparently not.
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I wonder how much of this is a lack of decent alternatives which are well-marketed, versus simple cultlike behavior.
Think about it: if you want a PC-like computer, what are your choices? There's Apple which is well-marketed and attractive and shiny (but has downsides which aren't as obvious unless you're really familiar with the industry), there's Microsoft-driven PCs where you have to use shitty Windows and deal with all its annoyances, and there's Linux where there's pretty much no one actually pre-insta
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There's also code besides the driver code; the Broadcom chips themselves have CPU cores (not sure what kind exactly) running their own firmware, which of course is loaded by the driver. This code is completely closed-source and secret. (The driver code is partially open; you can see their open-source Linux code in the kernel tree; it's "brcmfmac" and "brcmsmac")
I wonder if Apple's recent updates updated the firmware blobs for the Broadcom chips? This could also explain the problems.
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I tried dealing with the Broadcom driver on my laptop and had to give up in disgust trying to get it to compile. I upgraded OpenSUSE which included a pre-compiled driver which seems to work for the most part. Broadcom historically has not been very open source friendly. At least one of the Broadcom 10G PHY drivers in the Linux kernel was written by my employer, now a competitor to Broadcom. (see drivers/net/phy/bcm87xx.c for example).
Re:No shit (Score:5, Informative)
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Okay, actually it just booted into the old Mountain Lion volume on the first HDD because the Mac keeps the preferred boot volume in NVRAM. So when clearing your NVRAM keep in mind that the Mac will boot into whatever system volume it finds first unless you tell it otherwise.
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I found resetting the NVRAM fixing the problem. The process: 1) Shut down your Mac. 2) Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. 3) Turn on your Mac. 4) Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys immediately after you hear the startup sound. 5) Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for a second time. 6) Release the keys.
Ah yes the voodoo fix that never fixes anything.
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>Ah yes the voodoo fix that never fixes anything.
Funny how this is prescribed for every ill the mac faces. Usually it's the act of rebooting that "fixes" whatever the problem is. I don't think the command-PR bit does anything, wouldn't be surprised if the action was just mapped to repeatStartupSound() in the bios.
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It *does* something, but it seldom actually *fixes* anything. It’s roughly the equivalent of resetting a PC’s BIOS to factory defaults, except that Apple stores quite a bit more in the NVRAM than CPU multiplier & such that BIOS usually does. Preferences about display ordering (which is “primary”), boot device, and no doubt settings related to finding preferred networks for the recovery partition and FindMyMac to do their thing.
I have an older MacBook Pro that’s had WiFi i
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Yeah, I was definitely more impressed with the 802.11 chipsets and gear they used in the PPC PowerBooks and iBooks. My older 2009 Macbook doesn't seem to have as many issues as my newer Air does though.
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Ahhh! Good old Atheros (and Orinoco before them...)
My 2009 MBP has a Broadcom chip, and it’s had WiFi issues (against an Apple Airport no less) since Yosemite. Haven’t noticed it happening since putting 10.10.2 on, but it’s hardly been long enough for a conclusive “fix.”
Re:No shit (Score:4, Interesting)
Several years ago I worked at Atheros working on improving their Linux driver performance for wireless access points. One of my tasks was to figure out why OS X was quite a bit faster than Linux and Windows. I tracked it down to the way OSX sends TCP ACK packets. Both Linux and Windows send a TCP ACK after every other packet whereas OS X would start to space the ACKs out if the connection was reliable. This had a significant impact with 802.11N where there is a lot of packet aggregation. I discovered that OS X would start spacing the ACKs out to every 16-32 TCP packets instead of every other packet. I wish Linux would do something similar.
I can't comment on any other drivers or current OS X since this was a bit over four years ago.
I can think of a couple of things that would improve Linux for wireless. First of all, spacing out the ACKs like OS X would help. Second of all, supporting transmitting a group of packets at a time, especially to a particular destination, would help a lot. This is due to the way 802.11N aggregates a lot of packets together into a single wireless packet based on the next wireless hop destination. It's much more efficient for cache utilization and for the code paths when groups of packets are handled rather than individual packets since there is a lot of queueing and dequeeuing going on inside the driver.
Re: No shit (Score:2)
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Sort of. Nagle's algorithm deals with the data, not the ACKs. Basically what is needed is Nagle's algorithm applied to TCP ACK packets which is what Apple is doing.
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OS X and iOS both forge QoS packets fooling access points into giving apple devices on the network more bandwidth than all other devices. A single apple user can cripple a network. Don't believe me? Fire up wireshark and do some promiscuous captures to see it in action.
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Even bluetooth is shit in Macbook Pro.
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Wouldn't know - haven't really gotten it to work.
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I have used it with a JBL Flip speaker and the range is literally 2 meters. With my phone I can run around the whole apartment and the music keeps on playing.
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They also really dropped the ball on USB 2 throughput on some combinations of modern OS X (like Mavericks) with old hardware (say a 2007 MacBook Pro). There are serious throughput problems with some peripheral devices. A workaround is to run Snow Leopard or Windows 7 on the same hardware. This was the last straw that forced me to upgrade my trusty '07 MBP.
Probably just holding it wrong (Score:3, Funny)
Users are probably just holding their device incorrectly,
Captcha: Posture
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Any self-respecting straight man who owns an Apple likely doesn't have much of a device to begin with.
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Alternate option would be that people with issues aren't using official Apple® AirPort® Extreme® [apple.com] wireless stations. Seems like a router problem to me.
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Alternate option would be that people with issues aren't using official Apple® AirPort® Extreme® [apple.com] wireless stations.
Nope. I can say first hand the issue happens with an Apple® Time Capsule®. Issue started with Yosemite. The wifi randomly (but infrequently) decides to disconnect and just stays idle with a grayed out signal indicator. It reconnects fine if you just click on the network from the list, but at the VERY least, OSX should try to search for, and connect to known wifi networks when the current one becomes disconnected. It doesn't do that, it seems like the whole process for managing the wifi
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My Macbook Air 2010 worked fine with wifi until I "upgraded" to Yosemite... since then very flaky wifi... spontaneous disconnects, only connects on wake about half the time. I've tried a lot of the "fixes" on the forums and still have problems. Most of the time I have to reboot to get it to connect reliably (until it goes to sleep).
Yosemite also features a crappy UI and Spotlight has lost much of its usefulness. Apple's software is going down hill fast. No more "upgrades" for me.
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Really? How about the wifi clients follow the RFCs? If it needs its own proprietary AP in order to function properly, then it should shouldn't have the label "Wifi-capable" slapped on it.
No issues here (Score:1, Informative)
Haven't had any issues here on iOS 8 or Yosemite.
Re:No issues here (Score:5, Funny)
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Soon as we get done filling out this latest $18 Billion deposit slip, your almost-certainly user-generated "issue" is next! Thanks for your patience!
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Using Ubuntu and Android do cause that to happen.
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Same here. Two MBPs (one running a selection of VPNs), and an iMac in the g-friend's office upstairs, zero connection issues. Latest Yosemite on the boxes, latest iOS 8 on phones (okay, 8.1.3 on hers, 8.1.2 on my jailbreak).
It seems like a lot of guys are using cheapo routers. Who knows?
As for bluetooth, it's a cheap-assed protocol, with very shitty bandwidth for audio. Invented on Win95 maybe?
Yup. (Score:1)
I've got a 2012 Macbook Air running Yosemite. Wireless has been giving me problems on wake. Once it gets connected, it's fine. But just the other day, I woke the laptop up, and no matter what I did it could not see my 5GHz network, despite the fact that a bunch of my other devices could see/connect to it just fine.
I rebooted the Mac and it worked fine... but I shouldn't have to.
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Anecdotal - I have a 2012 MBPro (Retina) and have no problem sleeping and rejoining 5GHz APs on wake
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Neither did I, in the past. I vaguely recall having had wifi-related issues when the notebook was newer, but before I put Yosemite on it, I don't think I had any wifi issues any time recently before that. It was only after yosemite that I started having issues.
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I neglected the important part - I've upgraded to Yosemite as well but have had no issues.
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Did you try turning off/on the wireless? That sometimes works for me when I've got wifi issues. I think it may unload/reload the driver.
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I did try that the most recent time, it didn't help. It could see the 2.4GHz wireless network, but not the 5GHz wireless network (both networks are broadcast from the same router).
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
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I understand there was also a 90% decline in customers wearing Che Guevara t-shirts, impromptu poetry slams, the overheard phrase "I don't even *OWN* a TV", and ironic mustaches. Conversely, the percentage of employed customers who actually tip is way up.
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Now, this is completely off topic but reminds me of a funny paragraph in a recent Atlantic [theatlantic.com] article about writer Jeff VanderMeer.
Sometimes, you have to change your coffee shop, too. At the end of one increasingly jittery week of writing, the barista asks me, “Feel any different?” “In what way?” I ask. “I dunno,” she replies, “I’ve been adding more espresso shots to your coffee, gradual, to see what would happen.”
With a shameless plug for his recent Southern Reach trilogy (as is the whole article).
But you have to wonder about coffee shop regulars. This might explain some of their behavior.
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Have Mike throw them out. They've all gone hard.
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It's called a biscotto. The plural is "biscotti."
Anecdotal Example (Score:2)
I posted this in another place [slashdot.org] before, but I will post my personal experience again:
2 weeks ago, I bought a brand new Macbook Pro. During setup, I ran into a bug where the 'next' button disappeared entirely during apple ID "linking", and could not be finished. I had to force re-start the machine, and then skip that step. After setup, it became apparent that Yosemite did not ship with it (why?), so I had to upgrade. However, due to my faulty Apple ID setup the first time, it couldn't use the apple store to d
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Not that it should be needed, but you can buy an Thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor... I bought one just in case as you never know when traveling what networking will be like.
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They should include ethernet ports right into the machine like they used to. Fuck this ultra thin shit..
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Would be nice. I also wish they'd go back to the pre-retina enclosure, and instead of wasting space on an optical drive, I'd like to see them use most of that extra space for additional battery capacity. If I run Photoshop or Finale or Xcode or any of the other software that I use to actually get stuff done with my retina MBP (about one year old), I'm lucky to get 2.5 to 3.5 hours out of it. If I were designing a computer to meet my needs, the "four cores running at full tilt" duration would be eight or
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But Ive had them redo the UI with completely eye burning colors on all white, so you have that which is nice. Or not.
I can't upgrade to the new OS. It's just too ugly and too many moving visual distractions that I can't turn off.
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If they do patch it, I greatly suspect that if you bring your laptop into an Apple store, they'll do an upgrade/patch/swap for you there.
Still, this is pretty much garbage. I haven't had these problems, but my iMac and Mac Mini aren't the most cutting edge hardware. I wonder what combination of hardware and software is causing issues here.
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That's bizarre... How in the world does something like that happen?
Of course, as a general rule I don't apply an Apple ID to the initial user of the machine, because I save that to serve as an emergency admin user, so that's probably why I haven't noticed.
You wouldn't happen to know the specific version of yosemite your machine came with? (Guessing 10.10.1?)
Thanks for sharing.
won't automatically connect to WiFi (Score:1)
As discussed on this forum [apple.com]
1st World Problems
Surface Pro 3 (off-topic, mostly) (Score:1)
Maybe this is a good time to complain about my WiFi issues with the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. When it wakes up, I always have to disconnect and reconnect from the access point. When I go between home and work, I expect it to automatically connect to the appropriate access point, but I always have to do it manually
Apparently, these are known issues. I love my Surface Pro 3, but it would be great if this was addressed.
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Looks like there is no connectivity issues. (Score:1)
much better than before either way (Score:2, Interesting)
the "broken" state was actually a fix for a much more broken state... unless you want your laptop battery constantly drained while in sleep mode, the wifi antennae is turned off... when you wake up the computer, it used to just assume it was still connected and send out a "hey, i think i'm connected to you" message, which your wifi router would happily acknowledge, and the connection would be instantly available as if the computer never went to sleep. no new logon or auth handshake, just instant access, w
"Wi-Fi" is fundamentally broken, period. (Score:4, Interesting)
The problems with "Wi-Fi" are numerous. The end result is that generally speaking, Wi-Fi is a hot mess of broken tech that doesn't work. In the rare case that it DOES work, even the most trivial of changes in the environment or in the client can completely break it.
1. Early versions of the spec were too loosely worded, and allowed for too many "interpretations".
2. Vendor extensions are still a major problem. Many vendor extensions are not compatible with one another, and a device that has a vendor extension enabled
may work very poorly (or not at all) with a device lacking said extension.
3. Actual implementations of Wi-Fi are all over the map in terms of quality, with ridiculous things like: advertising support for an extension that it doesn't actually support; criminally severe bugs in a production implementation; vendors that try to work around bugs that other vendors introduced but in turn create yet more bugs, causing a vicious cycle of workarounds to workarounds; "hide and go seek" with extensions and spec interpretations; ridiculous driver implementations that hold exclusive access over very coarse-grained locks in the OS kernel for long periods of time, causing freezes and/or panics; poorly designed antennas; buggy firmware that never gets updated; etc.
4. The spectrum WiFi uses is open to be used by literally anything else that complies with a few simple rules, such as the maximum Tx power on that frequency band. As a consequence, random electric devices can freely leak a certain amount of random interference (noise) in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi bands, which destroys the ability for WiFi to operate. Ever lose your WiFi when you turn on your vacuum cleaner, or microwave? That's what's happening.
5. The spectrum WiFi uses is used by other communications protocols that are not Wi-Fi. While some effort is made to interoperate between a few of them, such as cooperation between Bluetooth nodes and WiFi nodes (such that they don't "trample over" one another if they use the same frequency), the interoperation protocols, specifications, and implementations have the same problems as the Wi-Fi specs themselves, as stated above.
6. Recent increased focus on power saving has caused some rather extreme power saving techniques to be employed in Wi-Fi firmware and drivers, which sacrifices performance, range and reliability for a few microwatts or milliwatts of energy. Paradoxically, some of the proponents of these techniques actually think that's OK, and are still trying to make the problem worse.
7. There are a large number of complex physical parameters that affect whether two WiFi transceivers will be able to communicate, which 99% of users don't understand at all. The power saving techniques mentioned above reduce the variety of possible configurations (that is, device orientations and distances, mainly) under which the signal will be reliable and high-performance.
8. Vendors that produce Wi-Fi transceivers, or products that integrate them, usually perform inadequate testing to certify the device as interoperable with a very large array of existing and upcoming other products that use Wi-Fi. Especially in the case of smartphones, the possible number of clients and basestations that may be interacted with is tremendous: Smart TVs; DSL modem/routers; cable modem/routers; other smartphones; enterprise APs and repeaters; laptops; tablets; cars; IoT devices -- all these things need to be tested. With a LOT of work -- and I mean a LOT -- eventually a Wi-Fi stack can be designed in such a way that it operates at least decently well with all modern incarnations of the above, but that says nothing about older implementations, which people love to keep around for a decade or more, and expect them to work. A sufficiently general Wi-Fi stack that works okay with all of the above will probably have so many heuristics for bug detection, compromises, polling tests, etc. that they won't work especially well even in an "ideal" scenario, and may even try to implement contradictory rul
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I would add:
9. Entities like cities rolling out "city-wide" Wi-Fi and filling the available spectrum with background noise which reduces performance of local Wi-Fi.
10. Organizations that treat Wi-Fi spectrum as something they "own" within a multi-tenant building and making attempts to kill off uses they don't control or profit from.
Re:"Wi-Fi" is fundamentally broken, period. (Score:4, Interesting)
The problems with "Wi-Fi" are numerous. The end result is that generally speaking, Wi-Fi is a hot mess of broken tech that doesn't work.
Oddly, I find Wi-Fi to be the only wireless technology which does work reliably. Bluetooth? It's pure bollocks, it never works. Well, that is, when you're trying to do anything the least bit fiddly. And they permitted all kinds of things which abuse the shit out of the spec to call themselves bluetooth, like PS3 controllers. And my problems with cellular technology are legion. But Wi-Fi tends to just keep on ticking along for me. Routers, those shit themselves, but completely and not just the Wi-Fi.
Actual implementations of Wi-Fi are all over the map in terms of quality, with ridiculous things like: advertising support for an extension that it doesn't actually support; criminally severe bugs in a production implementation; vendors that try to work around bugs that other vendors introduced but in turn create yet more bugs, causing a vicious cycle of workarounds to workarounds; "hide and go seek" with extensions and spec interpretations; ridiculous driver implementations that hold exclusive access over very coarse-grained locks in the OS kernel for long periods of time, causing freezes and/or panics; poorly designed antennas; buggy firmware that never gets updated; etc.
You can have all the same equivalent problems with normal Ethernet, though. Many vendors still sell ordinary 100bTX(etc) chipsets which are total garbage, and people still buy NICs using them and stick them into their machines. I have a whole raft of sketchy tulip clones here because they were $1/ea some years ago at Fry's, back when that was still a really amazing price and not just what you'd expect on eBay. They work OK if you only put one of them in a system, which pretty much crapped on my plans for them, but over the years they've occasionally come in handy. Problem is, PCI is goin' away...
The spectrum WiFi uses is open to be used by literally anything else that complies with a few simple rules, [...] Ever lose your WiFi when you turn on your vacuum cleaner, or microwave? That's what's happening.
Well no. My vacuum and microwave are both brand-name products which seem to have adequate shielding, they do not seem to negatively impact my 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi in the least. In case you're wondering, the vac is a Dyson.
If USB and its "device class" specifications (Mass Storage, Battery charging spec, RNDIS, audio class, etc.) is a ringing success story of how standardization can promote interoperability,
It isn't. Most devices don't use the generic driver, even when it would be better than whatever they actually did.
What sucks about Wi-Fi is that when you have a lot of networks near one another, they crap on one another harder than they are supposed to. It takes extra-special care to make this not happen, and then any dillhole who brings his own battery-powered AP with him can still totally hose your network. But otherwise it mostly works, and often better than the other stuff that's supposed to be better. I had way less radio-related problems when my WISP used Wi-Fi than I do now that they're using some custom CDMA crap. No weather problems either, even though I'm more than five miles from the site. It proves nothing of course, except that the Wi-Fi is more mature technology than whatever they were using.
Now, I have yet to try Chromecast, Miracast etc. but I'm starting to think harder about that, so maybe I will finally learn to hate Wi-Fi. But in general, the only real hardship I've had is with chipsets whose drivers don't support master mode under Linux. This taught me to buy intel and Atheros. Even then you don't get a guarantee, but odds are great and you can always check ahead of time. The thing is, that's good advice anyway, both what to buy and what to do before you buy.
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Say all you want about WiFi standards being a mess but I've never had these kinds of wireless issues with Windows. The current MacBook Pro I have, which was purchased in late 2013 and came perinstalled with Mavericks, has been trouble-free. So far. However, the previous MBP I owned, which was purchased in late 2008 and came preinstalled with Leopard, was a nightmare. Every now and then, the machine would forget how to connect to my wireless router and it would take hours of trying many things (I never could
Re:"Wi-Fi" is fundamentally broken, period. (Score:5, Insightful)
Excuses, excuses. I don't want to call you a fanboy, but this is a classic fanboy tactic. Blame the technology, make out it is so badly broken it's the technology's fault and not Apple's.
The reality is that hundreds of millions of people use wifi successfully and with minimal hassle every day. Yeah, it's not perfect but 20 years ago widespread low cost networking was just a dream, and now we have thousands and thousands of devices sharing the 2.4GHz band more or less without issue. If anything it's biggest problem is that it's too popular and has saturated 2.4GHz.
To look at it another way, all other major operating systems managed to implement it in a fairly reliable way. I come home, my phone and laptop connect to wifi automatically and just work, despite the congestion and mix of standards and vendors.
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If anything it's biggest problem is that it's too popular and has saturated 2.4GHz.
It kind of makes you wonder what the problems would be like if there was another 2-300 Mhz of bandwidth available -- ie, if all the issues are ultimately caused by limited RF space and the many kludges and speedups applied to overcome this.
Part of me thinks if the standards bodies would refuse extensions that attempt to go faster by using wider channels or channel bonding (thus maintaining a larger number of unused channels)
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Considering I have never spent a penny on any Apple product or service, and have no stock invested in Apple, I'm not sure how the label "fanboy" makes any sense whatsoever.
Just because *you've* not had any particular problem doesn't mean that problems don't exist. I have the unfortunate pleasure of having a reputation as a person who is knowledgable in general about computing, so pretty much everyone I know who isn't technically savvy themselves will invariably come to me when they have problems.
I've had to
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Just because *you've* not had any particular problem doesn't mean that problems don't exist.
Sure,but just because *you've* had problems doesn't mean it is fundamentally broken. Clearly it works fine for millions of people, the majority in fact. The main issue people have is congestion, i.e. it works too well and became more popular than ever anticipated.
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Moron, plain and simple.
Wifi works great, I have a 7 node cisco network with hundreds of clients connect in a RF noisy machine shop environment. No issues... but it's all Android and Windows.
Just because you buy shitty $10 WAPs from Frys doesn't mean the technology is bad, it means you're a moron for wasting your money.
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On top of all this, Apple WiFi is especially broken because:
1) The station will never hop to the best AP when it should, it always waits until signal drops to -75dBm before roaming, so it continues to use the AP at the door where you walked in the building,. not the one near where you are sitting, ruining WiFi for everyone with low-rate shouting. Apple thinks we are going to carefully tweak our networks around this weakness (this is their stated offcial position on the matter) and they are wrong.
2) Respond
MBP 13 mid-2010 no wifi problems (Score:1)
Bonjour over AWDL (Score:3, Informative)
This issue [medium.com]: Bonjour over AWDL is still happening on 10.10.2. Wifi download speeds immediately plummet when any service that relies on bonjour activates. You can reproduce this issue by starting a speed test of your choice and clicking anything that requires bonjour. The speed will fall like a rock.
Issuing a:
sudo ifconfig awdl0 down
will immediately restore the connection speed. It's so certain that I've been able to basically play ping pong with the DL speeds by clicking the AirPlay icon to cause it to dive and then dropping the awdl0 connection to bounce it back up. There's also a lingering disconnect problem that seems to infect Apple devices trying to connect or remain connected to WPA 2 (AES) networks although I've not seen this behavior since 10.10.2 arrived, although my testing has been limited.
Their bluetooth sucks too (Score:1)
But, it just works, right? (Score:1)
Further proof that anyone can have a mix of crappy hardware and software cause them problems.
Can I get a loud "Well DUH!" from anyone who's life isn't consumed by rampant brand fanboyism?
Same on iOS 7 (Score:4, Interesting)
My iPad 2, running iOS 7 gets disconnected in certain WIFIs quite often. ... 10.7 does not even offer a hotkey or a menu to switch desktops. And how to activate multiple desktops, you need to google for. I guess a huge amount of people who never had 10.6 don't even know that 10.7 and later supports multiple (virtual) desktops. ... you can not even insert a clickable link into a text document via the applications API (not sure if that ever worked, though). ... ...
My iPhone running iOS 6 stays in the same network without any problems.
Since Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 and iOS 5/6, more precisely since roughly half a year, perhaps a year, before Steve Jobs death, the quality and usefulness of Apple Software goes downhill rapidly
Support for AppleScript, for Apples own programs, like TextEdit, is down to a bare minimum
My Application lost the ability to search a few days ago, also the intelligent folders (which I rely heavily on in my business) stopped working. A restart of Mail.app changed nothing. I had to reboot.
Backups to time machine, don't work minimum once a week. Error is: (insert computer name) bundle in use. I wonder by whom? Usually I have to reboot the time machine, which you only can do by unplugging it from the power: which is a bad idea for a device/appliance containing a hard drive. (This is all 10.7 on a MacBook Air)
The back ups for my other laptop, running 10.6 got lost half a year ago. Timemachine gave an error: incremental back up not possible, need to make a full backup. Wow, never had I assumed that implies all my old backups are gone.
I could rant for ever
MS I mainly hated because the UI is not useable, and the random bugs that showed up REGULARLY.
Now I start hating Apple, too. At least the UI still works better (for me) than Windows.
Probably it is time to build up my own unix based backup solution and write my own apps for basic stuff like Mail and Web. I can not get it that it is still impossible to freeze a browser tab that is in the background completely
A few tabs open in Chrome and Safari and the laptop just runs 3h instead of the 'normal' 10h.
Even worse with iPhones 4/4S (Score:2)
Android too (Score:2)
I would also like to mention this occurs on my Nexus 5 pretty frequently: I'm at home, using the WiFi, and randomly it just stops working. It just says, for every request I put out, that they time out. The only way to "fix" it is to shut off WiFi, and then turn it back on.
This happened on my Galaxy S3 as well. All other devices in the house (Xbox, laptops with the exception of the MacBook Pro which suffers from this Yosemite issue) have no problems.
There are other issues I've had as well as this in other pl
Not for me (Score:2)
Yosemite solved them almost completely.
Almost, because sometimes my 2012 MacMini will randomly disconnect from the WiFi access point (an almost 10 year old Linksys 54MBit AP-only).
Then, I have to disabled WiFi completely, wait a few moments, re-enable it and reconnect to my AP again.
It's very random, which leads me to the conclusion that it could also be an issue with the AP and/or all the wireless networks around me, probably using much later and
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It's very random, which leads me to the conclusion that it could also be an issue with the AP and/or all the wireless networks around me,
If an AP your NIC is not connected to is causing your NIC problems other than low signal or perhaps low throughput, then your NIC is at fault. OTOH, if your router (AP, whatever) is actually causing you problems, then yes, your NIC deserves a pass. However, IME most of the time if a Linksys router has a problem, it's usually hanging. YMMV, I suppose.
I sometimes wonder why works at all.
Most of the hardware designed before most of the problems were solved is now gone, or at least sitting in a drawer someplace. Sure, I own devices invented befor
Funny thing is (Score:2)
I have read people's complaints about this, and I know it's happening and is very vexing. But I haven't had any trouble with wi-fi on my Macs - either at home (a couple MacBook Pros and several iDevices, connecting to an Airport Extreme base) or at work (iDevices connecting to whatever enterprise gear U of Wash. has - well, except that UW's wifi is universally oversubscribed). And over the past decade or so, I've been much happier with OS X's wifi performance than I ever was with XP's.
I would assume people
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same here at the UW. It's kind of irritating, since we are building new tech for everyone, but our own internal stuff sucks so bad.
And then I connect to the 100 Gbps port directly and ... what problems?
it's hard to find trustworthy reviewers these days (Score:2)
I mean look, when I first upgraded my perfectly nice iPad Air to iOS 8, it's Wi-Fi become practically unusable (had to reconnect every 5 minutes). Rendering iPad useless for several weeks. And it's not like I didn't check online reviews beforehand... None of them (sellout
osx wifi drivers (Score:1)
No Problems with my Hackinosh.... (Score:2)
Snow Leopard Forever! (Score:2)
Definitely the best of the Xs...
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Re: Not a big problem here... (Score:2)
Not exactly "just works" though is it?
What? (Score:1)
So basically, you said that Apple haven't acknowledged the problem, then quoted them acknowledging the problem?
Nothing New (Score:2)
I've had problems every time I upgrade my laptop with the WEP key stored in the key chain getting messed up somehow. Took a huge amount of poking around to figure out what was going on, because the error handling was atrocious (Unix programmers take note). It didn't report anywhere that it couldn't retrieve the WEP key, it just failed to make a connection with no clue as to why. Of course, because there was no problem indication from the software and no official information from Apple on the problem (pro
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