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I’ve been noticing this for a while. Both my laptop and my wife’s have this problem. Both are M1. Both our iPhones seem to have similar issues. I went mad try
by LASR 4y ago
I’ve been noticing this for a while. Both my laptop and my wife’s have this problem. Both are M1.
Both our iPhones seem to have similar issues.
I went mad trying to figure it out with my router/APs etc.
I was certain there is no way it could be Apple’s issue. But in hindsight this makes sense.
Especially so, if Apple is sharing some driver logic between M1 laptops and A16 SOCs on the phones.
Edit: I want to add that this most-noticably manifested as websites loading incompletely. Looking at the network tab, this would show some HTTP requests fail even before establishing a connection. Other requests were fine. So most sites were broken, or don't render correctly without css. Restart was the only fix.
- saagarjha 4y agoAWDL steals time from your Wi-Fi connection; it doesn’t drop requests.
- brookst 4y agoMore specifically, it tells your router to hold packets for a few milliseconds while it switches to another channel, then switches back and signals to resume sending. Unless you are saturating your wifi network from a single apple device this should nit be an issue. AWDL has been around since, what, 2014? There may be new bugs but it’s hard to believe the principle stopped working as wifi got faster.