WiFi On OS X Yosemite Sucks
Ever since I upgraded to OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Pro, using WiFi has been a frustrating experience. Here’s what the usual pattern that I see:
- I’ll be doing something on WiFi and it will drop without warning.
- I will then turn off WiFi as I am unable to join networks.
- I then turn on WiFi again and rejoin the network.
This will work for a few minutes. Then I have to do this all over again. It’s more likely to happen under sustained usage of WiFi and it’s very frustrating. And it seems that I am not alone in this as there’s a lengthy thread on the Apple Discussion Boards on this with users who have my issues and other issues such as slow speeds.
Now OS X Daily has written an in-depth tutorial on how to fix the Wi-Fi problems in OS X Yosemite, which involves several steps like deleting preference files, creating custom DNS settings, and refreshing the discoveryd service. But these are very technical workarounds for the most part that your average end user cannot leverage. Thus the only real fix I suspect is to wait for the first update to Yosemite to come out and hope that fixes the issue.
First iOS 8 and its WiFi issues, and now this. One has to wonder if Apple seriously QA’s its products before release anymore.
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