cheeryble Posted January 19, 2013 Posted January 19, 2013 Title says it I regularly go to a couple of coffee shops to work and find my connection dropping. I turn off/on the wifi and that always did it but now find myself having to reboot the computer.......which BTW has worked twice today and I reconnect. I have asked others on androids etc and they don't lose their connection. What's up Doc?
cheeryble Posted January 19, 2013 Author Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Various cafes or just one? Title says it I regularly go to a couple of coffee shops to work and find my connection dropping. .....been happening in both. In one I just reboot their router. The other as I say I have previously on/offed wifi, but today had to reboot OSX twice. Edited January 19, 2013 by cheeryble
nikster Posted January 20, 2013 Posted January 20, 2013 I've got WiFi issues too, I think it's a bug in Mountain Lion. I don't know why it suddenly got worse. Symptoms are that it takes forever to find available networks, and sometimes fails to connect. When that happens I just connect over the phone so I don't know whether a rebook would fix it. Run disk utility to verify disk and repair permissions. I guess maybe PRAM zap or SMC reset might work too?! I have not tried but the fact that WiFi seems to have gotten worse over time indicates that maybe some settings stored somewhere are getting corrupted?!
Jimi007 Posted January 20, 2013 Posted January 20, 2013 I've got WiFi issues too, I think it's a bug in Mountain Lion. I don't know why it suddenly got worse. Symptoms are that it takes forever to find available networks, and sometimes fails to connect. When that happens I just connect over the phone so I don't know whether a rebook would fix it. Run disk utility to verify disk and repair permissions. I guess maybe PRAM zap or SMC reset might work too?! I have not tried but the fact that WiFi seems to have gotten worse over time indicates that maybe some settings stored somewhere are getting corrupted?! No wonder I always stay on OS behind the newest. Especially when I have to run some apps for work that won't run on the latest OS usually. No problems with my wifi connections in 10.7.5. But I agree with Nik. First run verify disc in disc utilities, if all is okay then run disc permissions. If not you need to start from a bootable drive and run disc repair. The last time I zapped my PRAM I had a system failure and had to reinstall everything from Carbon Cloner, which is still way better than Time Machine... Sorry, I don't have a solution at this time, only a comment.
cheeryble Posted January 21, 2013 Author Posted January 21, 2013 Thanks for the comments I've verified and repaired, didn't see anything which seems aposite to WiFi but will see how we go. As it happens I hooked straight on the WiFi in one place several times already today. Oh! Another glitch. Anyone notice the cursor disappears occasionally? Seems to come back......I think it might be if you take it off the screen and back not at all sure.
nikster Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 @Jimi - it seems to be a time-honored tradition that they screw up something related to WiFi with every new release. Both iOS and Mac OS. I needed 10.8 for the retina MacBook Pro. I don't think it has any must have features over 10.7. The mail client is a little nicer; Notification center is a toss-up - it can be helpful but it can also be annoying so I turn it off most of the time. Too many notifications! 1
cheeryble Posted February 25, 2013 Author Posted February 25, 2013 Keeping this topic bumped I am still having the wifi problem and it is a fact that I often get the exclamation mark instead of the four wifi strength bands. Usually works with a wifi reboot but in one particular place......where others don't seem to have the problem (no Airs around so no evidence there) I have often tried until I have to give up and use the damned iPad. Any similar experiences or advice? My guess is it's ain't hardware related. Otherwise a lovely laptop to use.......
cheeryble Posted February 25, 2013 Author Posted February 25, 2013 (edited) A clue. A friend came in today with the same larger Air as me. I told him I had a wifi problem. He said same here and recommended rebooting I said i do usually it works sometimes not. I guess the next question is is it the same with other laptops using 10.8.2? ....and regardless.....what can be done? Edited February 25, 2013 by cheeryble
cheeryble Posted May 26, 2013 Author Posted May 26, 2013 A clue. A friend came in today with the same larger Air as me. I told him I had a wifi problem. He said same here and recommended rebooting I said i do usually it works sometimes not. I guess the next question is is it the same with other laptops using 10.8.2? ....and regardless.....what can be done? Still having problems connecting. Here at wife's house usually have to reboot my air wifi once or twice to get on. At regular cafe sometimes cannot connect at all....though everyone else and myiPad is OK. Other places too. It's boring.
bubba Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 A clue. A friend came in today with the same larger Air as me. I told him I had a wifi problem. He said same here and recommended rebooting I said i do usually it works sometimes not. I guess the next question is is it the same with other laptops using 10.8.2? ....and regardless.....what can be done? Still having problems connecting. Here at wife's house usually have to reboot my air wifi once or twice to get on. At regular cafe sometimes cannot connect at all....though everyone else and myiPad is OK. Other places too. It's boring. Have you updated Mountain Lion 10.8.4, which was released last week? The update contains some wifi fixes that are supposed to remedy the dropping problems that have been noted by ML users.
cheeryble Posted June 9, 2013 Author Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) A clue. A friend came in today with the same larger Air as me. I told him I had a wifi problem. He said same here and recommended rebooting I said i do usually it works sometimes not. I guess the next question is is it the same with other laptops using 10.8.2? ....and regardless.....what can be done? Still having problems connecting. Here at wife's house usually have to reboot my air wifi once or twice to get on. At regular cafe sometimes cannot connect at all....though everyone else and myiPad is OK. Other places too. It's boring. Have you updated Mountain Lion 10.8.4, which was released last week? The update contains some wifi fixes that are supposed to remedy the dropping problems that have been noted by ML users. Oh thankyou Bubba I'm still having just the same problem and will look for the update and let the thread know next coupla days. HEY they got the temerity to charge $20? I'll cut my arm off before I pay that to Apple so hope i can find soon. Stay tuned. Edited June 9, 2013 by cheeryble
bubba Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 A clue. A friend came in today with the same larger Air as me. I told him I had a wifi problem. He said same here and recommended rebooting I said i do usually it works sometimes not. I guess the next question is is it the same with other laptops using 10.8.2? ....and regardless.....what can be done? Still having problems connecting. Here at wife's house usually have to reboot my air wifi once or twice to get on. At regular cafe sometimes cannot connect at all....though everyone else and myiPad is OK. Other places too. It's boring. Have you updated Mountain Lion 10.8.4, which was released last week? The update contains some wifi fixes that are supposed to remedy the dropping problems that have been noted by ML users. Oh thankyou Bubba I'm still having just the same problem and will look for the update and let the thread know next coupla days. HEY they got the temerity to charge $20? I'll cut my arm off before I pay that to Apple so hope i can find soon. Stay tuned. The 10.8.4 Mountain Lion update is free. You can download it from the App store or here.. Mountain Lion is an entire operating system update with about 200 new features and tweaks, and Apple charge US$20 for it. I am not expecting free operating system revisions for life, and $20 seems reasonable to me. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html By comparison, Microsoft charge anywhere from US$120 to US$200 for their upgrade to Windows 8.
cheeryble Posted June 10, 2013 Author Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) Oh OK it's just an update rather than a reinstall? Thanks from Ratana's Kitchen, where I completely failed to get wifi for Air after rebooting both router and Air wifi for five minutes......but connected immediately on the iPad. Edited June 10, 2013 by cheeryble
cheeryble Posted June 12, 2013 Author Posted June 12, 2013 Hey Bubba! upgraded to 10 8 4 .......it has made absolutely no difference I'm afraid. It's a real problem.
bubba Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Hey Bubba! upgraded to 10 8 4 .......it has made absolutely no difference I'm afraid. It's a real problem. Sorry to hear that didn't help. I also have a Macbook Air and have not had any problems connecting. It could be you have a problem with your Airport card (wifi), since software is not causing the problem.
cheeryble Posted June 13, 2013 Author Posted June 13, 2013 Hey Bubba! upgraded to 10 8 4 .......it has made absolutely no difference I'm afraid. It's a real problem. Sorry to hear that didn't help. I also have a Macbook Air and have not had any problems connecting. It could be you have a problem with your Airport card (wifi), since software is not causing the problem. Yes I must go where I bought it. May be just over a year old which would be a shame. I didn't get it at an Apple store but second hand at the black shop up the Huay Kaew Rd CM. I believe there's actually a wifi circuit board inside. Will keep you informed after your kind help!
cheeryble Posted June 14, 2013 Author Posted June 14, 2013 Went to Git at the black mac shop where I bought the Air. He suggested it was about the IP address and wants me to check a couple of days and do screenshots of the TCP/IP when I can't hook on. I will take the Air into him Monday and leave for a day. (kinda surprised the solution didn't come to him it means this is rare or a one-off which is suggested by the fact the MacZone didn't find the problem during a quick visit to them either.) The good news is the guarantee finishes on June 21 (phew) so worst to worst I get it registered as a problem there within a week. Stay tuned!
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