Some OS X Yosemite Users Report Wi-Fi Connection Issues

A number of users have been reporting Wi-Fi issues on their Macs ever since upgrading to OS X Yosemite.

MacRumors:

Extensive threads about Wi-Fi problems have surfaced on both the MacRumors forums and on Apple’s own Support Communities as well, suggesting there are quite a few users who are seeing Wi-Fi connection issues after installing Yosemite.

According to the posts, Wi-Fi connections are extremely slow, and in some cases the Wi-Fi connections disconnect continually after just a few minutes.

“Since upgrading to Yosemite, my previously-stable (with Mavericks) wifi connection keeps dropping. I have to click the wifi icon and re-select my network every minute or two. I have turned off bluetooth and uninstalled/reinstalled wifi and my networks. I have rebooted multiple times. No luck so far. It appears that others are having similar problems.”

The issues seem to be affecting a wide variety of different MacBooks, with different routers, and different locations. While a number of fixes have been suggested, no one solution seems to work for everyone.

Some users have had luck disabling Bluetooth, turning off Handoff, creating new Network Locations, doing a clean Yosemite install, setting a router to “G-mode only,” turning off Dropbox syncing, disabling WPA router encryption, or turning off all proxies in Network preferences, but other users have not been able to solve their Wi-Fi problems at all even attempting all of the above listed solutions. Swapping to a 2.4GHz band has, however, worked for a large number of users.

OS X Daily has published an in-depth tutorial on possible fixes for OS X Yosemite Wi-Fi issues, and users experiencing the issues are recommended to visit the site and attempt the fixes laid out there. However, for users who can’t find a fix, the site recommends downgrading to OS X Mavericks until Yosemite is updated.

As always, before attempting any fix, make sure you have a good backup via TIme Machine or another backup utility, and use caution when deleting files.

MacTrast will keep you posted on any further developments on this issue.

Chris Hauk

Chris is a Senior Editor at Mactrast. He lives somewhere in the deep Southern part of America, and yes, he has to pump in both sunshine and the Internet.