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Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi. I often have to try multiple times and some times I give up, have to walk over to the route

by troels 15y ago

Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi. I often have to try multiple times and some times I give up, have to walk over to the router and restart it before I can get on. Probably an issue with the router ultimately, but I don't have this problem with other devices.

wildmXranat 15y ago
I was looking for this type of comment and I'm baffled it's a single one. None of my macbooks are that exceptional at re-connecting to wifi spots, especially the 2007 laptop. Coincidentally, I bought a linksys usb wifi adapter that could pull my neighbor's wifi from across the street. Just saying.
cbs 15y ago
Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi. There are certain networks they loathe to connect to and I haven't been able to find a common cause. The 802.1x authentication at college took lots of fiddling around on my mac every time I tried to connect, while all my other devices worked fine.
msbarnett 15y ago
The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID. Moving to a router that allowed them to be configured with different SSIDs resolved all my issues.
- shinratdr 15y ago
  > The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID. That is the default behaviour for an Airport Extreme.
- jrockway 15y ago
  There are cheapo routers that do 5GHz?
5hoom 15y ago
Another anecdote, I have encountered the occasional bit of strange behaviour with my macbook & various iDevices 'stealing' existing ip addresses on my home network, but it happens infrequently enough that I haven't been motivated to look into the problem. How it seems to go is that if the mac & iDevices are switched on simultaneously suddenly my PC's get connectivity issues. My interest in getting to the bottom of this phenomena has been piqued after reading this story. I will confess however that my router is a bit old & flakey & that I'm a very lazy admin ;)

by troels 15y ago

wildmXranat 15y ago

I was looking for this type of comment and I'm baffled it's a single one. None of my macbooks are that exceptional at re-connecting to wifi spots, especially the 2007 laptop. Coincidentally, I bought a linksys usb wifi adapter that could pull my neighbor's wifi from across the street. Just saying.

cbs 15y ago

Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi. There are certain networks they loathe to connect to and I haven't been able to find a common cause. The 802.1x authentication at college took lots of fiddling around on my mac every time I tried to connect, while all my other devices worked fine.

msbarnett 15y ago

The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID. Moving to a router that allowed them to be configured with different SSIDs resolved all my issues.

shinratdr 15y ago
> The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID. That is the default behaviour for an Airport Extreme.
jrockway 15y ago
There are cheapo routers that do 5GHz?

5hoom 15y ago

Another anecdote, I have encountered the occasional bit of strange behaviour with my macbook & various iDevices 'stealing' existing ip addresses on my home network, but it happens infrequently enough that I haven't been motivated to look into the problem. How it seems to go is that if the mac & iDevices are switched on simultaneously suddenly my PC's get connectivity issues. My interest in getting to the bottom of this phenomena has been piqued after reading this story. I will confess however that my router is a bit old & flakey & that I'm a very lazy admin ;)