Comments on: Wireless dropping problems with Mac OS 10.6.3 update, a simple fix

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:46:15 +0000

How do you kill the network?

By: David

David — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:51:32 +0000

I have tried everything. I am SO pissed. Everything was working fine until I upgraded to Lion. I have now done clean re-installs of Lion, then Snow Leopard and then Leopard. Still have the problem. I think things may have had an occasional issue under snow leopard but it definitely wasn’t enough to stop me from using the wireless but after I went to Lion, things immediately went bad. Now I’m wondering if the upgrade and new firmware may have done permanent damage to my wireless hardware??

I also recently upgraded the firmware on my Airport Extreme. Same damn thing! I had to downgrade because it caused network problems. Does Apple even bother to test their software anymore??!! As far as I am concerned, this is becoming very similar to dealing with Microsloth. I’m going to end up hating both companies!

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:43:18 +0000

plugged in an ethernet cable ( just into mac ) and its worked ever since!

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There’s something in the air, its 802.11 | — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:09:09 +0000

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By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:25:18 +0000

I have been battling with this issue for 18 months and have finally cracked it. It turns out that the EtherExpress bus SDD drive I had from Verbatim has been the root cure of all my problems. For some reason the driver interferes with the airport. I took the card out after coming across some posts about wifi issues on OSX when investigating why the SSD card wasn’t working after a Lion upgrade. I decided to take the card out as an experiment and I have not had the wifi drop once in about 3 weeks. Result as I had them regularly with it in.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:58:46 +0000

Still no joy with mine. Same symptoms – Apple replaced the laptop, had it on test for 2 weeks. Been running for 18 months off a 3G dongle because the wifi is so unreliable. Unacceptable for a £2000 laptop. Tried everything I can think of except a complete reinstall and then a gradual install of all my apps. Will take me weeks which is why I haven’t done it yet.
I have had some success with Tinkertool System if I clear all the caches and rebuild indexes and things the laptop will go for about a day before it acts up again. The only way I can get it to reconnect (apart from a restart) is to put the laptop to sleep then wake it up. Turning the airport on and off doesn’t work.

By: trenz

trenz — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:15:20 +0000

DUDE!!! you are a GENIUS!!!, i’ve been puzzling out all day whats wrong with my wifi, after I updated it from 10.5 to 10.6.7, you’re such a blessing!!! thank you sooo much!
I can now enjoy my MAC! =D

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:36:43 +0000

I recently installed Snow Leopard, upgraded to 10.6.7, and started experiencing problems with my wifi connection upon waking up my iMac. It would be disconnected and stay disconnected unless I initiated a re-connect. I would have to manually select my home network from the list, and then I’d connect (and stay connected) without a problem. Something I read somewhere about Time Machine or Time Capsule and a dual-band network being set up drifted across my consciousness, so I simply shut Time Machine off…. Voila! No more problems with dropping WiFi conn when machine sleeps. Now, if only I could get that damn Wake on Demand to work with my iPhone Remote app….

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:55:27 +0000

Hi All,

Running 10.6.6 and have had the same issue, but it only appears to happen over port 80 running when running almost any flavor of browser. My ssh connections in terminal, however, remain active before, during and after getting the kernel log entry “Airport link down … disassociated due to inactivity”. Just started using MacBook Pro … will stick with Linux unless this issue gets sorted out. Frustrating Apple!

By: ivan

ivan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:44:17 +0000

this helped me to install Rosetta via wi-fi. THnx

By: Nicola Fagiolo

Nicola Fagiolo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:42:34 +0000

I’ve been 2 days trying to work the problem out and I fixed thanks to your advice! Thank you soo much! You make my day!

Cheers,

@nicolafagiolo

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:47:53 +0000

Thanks a mill

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:49:36 +0000

Been having these issues since upgrading to 10.6.5. I saw 10.6.6 and thought great Apple must have fixed the problem but NO. This is just CRAP, my £5000 Mac Pro has no internet via Airport. Connected to the Virgin network by ethernet cable and everything is fine. My 2006 Mac Book Pro (PPC) right by my Mac pro has no problems and a Windows 7 PC also has no problems. Tried all the suggested fixes on the internet even clean installs but no luck, internet connection continually being dropped.

By: Saul

Saul — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:42:29 +0000

Correction. That only lasted about an hour now it’s back to dropping the connection every few minutes! I really don’t expect this crap from Apple. They need to acknowledge the problem and FIX IT…FAST!

By: Saul

Saul — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:16:16 +0000

This seems to have worked on my iMac running 10.6.6
Been having the problem for a few weeks now and I found turning the AirPort on and off worked for a few minutes at a time. Also tried changing channels on my router which again would work for a short time. Hoping this solution will fix it on a long term basis but I have to ask, why didn’t Apple fix the problem? It’s just ridiculous to put out continual updates without fixing the wireless connection issues.