Comments on: Fix OS X Mountain Lion Wireless Connection Problems

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:05:07 +0000

After Months and Months of waiting for Apple to role out with an update and not doing so, I became very frustrated. But, I have finally found the Solution! The wifi problem is a defect in the software, and for those of us who own an iPhone, we know all about restoring the software. Essentially, you must do the same thing to your mac (re-install the OS).

This will delete the defective software, and reinstall a fresh, new software. You will not lose anything on your mac during the process.

By: jonoave

jonoave — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:29:26 +0000

Thanks, the tips #1 and #2 seemed to help my Macbook to connect normally instead of dropping connections every 30 seconds. I was curious as my housemate using a 5-year old laptop running Windows XP has no problems with Wifi.

Apple – “it just works”. Yeah right.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:22:48 +0000

I tried the Unix terminal thing above, and I still am getting dropped on the internet, and stalled web page loads. However, my connection speed sped up 3 times as fast!

By: BC

BC — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:41:46 +0000

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

By: Unix is Da MAN!

Unix is Da MAN! — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:41:16 +0000

This is the fix!! Nothing I tried worked until I followed these steps. THANK YOU UNIX!!

By: Samuel F.

Samuel F. — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:25:50 +0000

T H A N K Y O U

I L O V E Y O U !!!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:28:16 +0000

If anyone is still having trouble I fixed the problem with my wifi. I disabled Wireless N in the router settings. I then changed the wireless to B/G mixed instead of Wireless N and this fixed the problem. Speed went back up to full 22 Mbps from only .5 Mbps.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:37:42 +0000

Sounds good to me Paul. I was kidding anyway. Thanks for the fix!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:19:42 +0000

Nothing is installed in this process, you simply create a new network location and change the packet transmission size. All stuff that is standard on your Mac!

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:15:59 +0000

Well I’m going to go out on a limb and say IT’S FIXED! No more dropped wifi!!!! I’m trusting that’s all that little app did to my computer and I’m not now being spyed on by someone or something

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:06:08 +0000

Emilio,

So far so good. Thanks! Waken it from sleep twice and still connected.

By: Emilio

Emilio — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:00:39 +0000

This works perfects for my. Greats.

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Downgrade to snow leopard driver version.

This will fix your drops:

Unzip, then unzip the Kext Utility, then drop the kext on the Utility app. Supply your password, reboot and then hopefully all is well with your Wi-Fi connection.

http://cl.ly/44180G1R3G0h

By: TrojanFan

TrojanFan — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:52:40 +0000

I was having intermittent internet connectivity issues with my MacBook Air.

Sometimes I could ping but not hit a site in a browser. Other times I wouldn’t get any connectivity. It would typically last a couple of minutes and then resolve itself, but certain things like using Skype video or Google Hangout screenshare would always disconnect me.

Note that this impacted my MBA only–my Apple TVs and another Mac worked fine on the network.

I first tried a USB ethernet cable, and that didn’t solve it.

I then picked up an Airport Express and had the same issues.

I finally read a suggestion that it might be my cable modem– I recently upgraded to a higher speed package and was still using my 8 year old modem.

I replaced the modem, and that did it. Perfect, FAST, internet with zero drops since I picked up the modem three days ago. If you have high speed service and are using an older modem, you may want to give it a shot.

By: Paul Bowers

Paul Bowers — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:35:09 +0000

Here is what worked for me. Called Apple Support. My iMac was not connecting to my wireless network, or would sporadically. The kind agent told me that if I were to change the security settings in my router to WPA2 that more than likely would solve my problem. Prior to this I was simply using WEP encryption. I thought he was nuts, but did as he suggested. Well. Its working absolutely flawlessly now. For those still using WEP, change your security settings and see if this works. I am happy again and not ready to use my Mac for scrap.

By: RSphotocreation

RSphotocreation — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:02:32 +0000

My problem is quite different, (clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on my MacBook Pro and iMac). Both of them are still connected without any issue like you guys. The problem is about sleep. When the iMac is asleep for 4 hours or so it disconnect from the network (Time Capsule), while the MacBook Pro is still connected even after 24 hours of sleep.

I don’t know if it’s a problem from Time Capsule or if it’s the OS X. The problem occurred on iMac since 10.7.2.