Questions tagged [wifi]
Wireless local area networking, also known as "Wireless Internet"; stands for "WIreless FIdelity"
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How do you check for whether a device is in a wifi deadzone? [duplicate]
How do you check whether your device is in a wifi deadzone? Specifically, I have a 2007 Macbook.
Environments:
At home
At public places with wifi
Hotel wifi setups
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MBP network card not working properly [on hold]
MBP network card not working properly but diagnostic not picking up on that. how can i confirm my wifi issues are from network card. All other devices are working fine on wifi network.
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A keychain cannot be found to store *network* Macbook Pro (el capitan 2010)
My MacBook is having problems with the keychain. I have taken it to an apple shop and it has not been fixed (his solution is to delete everything from the user and set up a new user and transfer all ...
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Mac cannot forget wifi hotspot! [on hold]
I can't connect to my friend's iphone from my Mac; when I try, it just shows an error, "Cannot connect to WIFI hotspot...". I couldn't find a Wi-Fi network with name mixas1k in some of the places I've,...
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Monitor data usage on iPhone connected to WiFi
My iPhone seems to download huge amounts of data according to Google WiFi stats. The last 30 days this was almost 1TB:
I can't pinpoint it to 1 specific app, my Photos library is only about 350 GB, ...
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My iPhone is no longer appearing in Wi-Fi menu above the line after changing mobile phone provider
I want to share Internet connection from my iPhone to my Macbook. Before, I just clicked the Wi-Fi icon on my mac and my iPhone automatically appeared there above the line. I did not need to enable ...
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Braided cable and USB-C adapter to resolve the Wifi/USB C interference on Macbook Pro
I've been reading an article about the interference problem between the Wifi signal (2.4 GHz) and most of USB-C adapters on the market. One of the solutions to solve this problem is to make sure that ...
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How to forget wifi in version 12.1.2
I changed the password of my school account, so I can't connect to the school wifi anymore. Normally, there would be an option to forget wifi, but that doesn't seem to exist in iOS 12.1.2. Selecting ...
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Sharing the Wi-Fi Password with Both iOS and macOS devices Under the Same Apple ID? [closed]
Sharing the Wi-Fi Password with both iOS and macOS devices under the Same Apple ID is not available for me. I can share the the Wi-Fi password with other person if we if we are registered in the phone ...
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Wi-Fi doesn't work when switching between office and home network
I use my desktop daily at an office and at home. In the last few months it happens very often, but not every time, that when I go back home from the office, or vice-versa, the internet connection ...
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Intermittent Wifi Issues: What is PKTAP?
I'm having intermittent wifi issues, regardless of the network. Especially after using Zoom w/ video for a while, either I get complete packet loss or just extreme network slowdown. It does resolve ...
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I keep having to re-add my printer to macOS every time I want to print something
I've been experiencing this issue a lot lately. First off, I have one of those wireless routers with a 2 GHz and a 5 GHz network. I'm not sure if that's what's causing this problem, but I have a ...
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Reinstalling mac in recovery mod without internet connection
One day my mac suddenly closed and after that when I wanted to login, it always shuts down while loading the main user on the login page. I want to reinstall is x without using my data so I started ...
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Can't connect to some WiFi networks
I've recently give my MacBook Pro 16' to a repair and after that I can't connect to some of my work WiFi networks. If I use my mobile as a hotspot, it works okay. Here's what I get at /var/log/wifi....
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Is there a way to force iphone 5 to 2.4ghz?
Upgraded my wifi router to a Orbi RBK22 with 2.4 and 5. I have a wifi camera that only uses 2.4. To set up the camera on the new router, the iphone with the camera setup app, must both be on 2.4. ...
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Macbook Pro Early 2011 13" I5 - Wifi Works Only During Disk Selection But Not Anywhere
I own a MacBook Pro Early 2011 13" i5 2.3 GHz model
Lately as my MacBook was shutting down randomly I fiddled with it a lot and finally I messed with its Wifi.(I do not remember how I did it as I was ...
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iPhone won't connect to internet
My iPhone SE connects to my WiFi/router/modem (WRM) fine, but it says "No Internet Connection". I've never had this problem with my iPhone before.
Two other laptops connected to the same WRM access ...
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[MBP9,2]Can I replace the Broadcom AirPort card with another vendor's 802.11?
My MB Pro Mid-2012 A1278 has a Broadcom AirPort card.
I’ll be brief and just say I have lost a lot of time trying to get this device working on a linux distro I’m running on the MacBook. I can use a ...
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Create Wi-Fi access point in macOS without Internet connection
I want to use Keynote.app on my iPhone to operate a Keynote presentation on my MacBook Pro. In order to do that, both iPhone and Mac needs to be on the same Wi-Fi network. But sometimes, there is no ...
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ios as a hotspot - no vpn connection to hotspot client running openvpn server
I have a following setup - iOS device acts as a hotspot, macos connects to that hotspot (and is visible as some-mac.local) and there is an openvpn (in docker) running on some-mac.local. I'd like to ...
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Why is my Wi-Fi Process eating >2GB memory
Why is the Wi-Fi process taking so much memory?
EDIT: Apologies, I should have clarified my question. I'm a web developer that spends most of his time developing apps locally. Not interacting with ...
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How can I troubleshoot when only one WiFi network SSID drops and loses connectivity?
My laptop (MacBook Pro 2016) doesn't like my parent's wifi. The laptop works just fine with any other wifi network. But simply it won't do it with this one location and/or router. The laptop does ...
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Why does iTunes stick on “Waiting for sync to start” when using WiFi sync?
Sometimes I get "Looking for iPhone" and then a silent failure. Sometimes it finds the iPhone and sticks on "Waiting for sync to start" long enough (more than 10 minutes) that I forget and/or try to ...
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Internet connectivity dropping intermittently on Mac 2018 Mojave
I got a new Macbook pro with the following specs:
The internet connects just fine but then drops randomly, and then reconnects randomly. It actually happens so fast.
I ran a diagnostics report, and ...
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iPhone Cellular Calls on macOS fail when macOS is connected to OpenVPN
My iPhone and MacbookPro are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and logged in to the same iCloud account, etc. When my OpenVPN connection is not active, calling and receiving cellular calls on ...
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WiFi password is correct but it is telling me it is wrong
I know my WiFi password is correct, but just today it is telling me on my iPad it is wrong. How can I get it to work.
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Can I reboot or reset AirPort Extreme remotely over wifi using my Mac?
Internet connection at my home (provided by the housing company) — shared to wifi via Airport Extreme — nowadays quite often cuts off. When this happens, my MacBook is still connected to the wifi just ...
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Changing to a different WiFi connection
I'm using MacBook Air running MacOS Sierra and using an IP address(provided by my college) that has been bound to my device's MAC address manually.
ie- My device's MAC address is has been bonded with ...
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iPad initial setup join Wi-Fi by scanning QR code
Is it possible to configure things such that iPad gives me an option to open the Camera app to scan a QR code to connect to a Wi-Fi access point? Do note that the iPad will be enrolled into DEP and ...
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Connect to internet via WiFi and SSH to local servers via LAN [duplicate]
I am able to connect to Internet via WiFi and to local servers via LAN when used separately on my MacBook with Mojave 10.14.1.
When both LAN and WiFi are enabled, I can only use one service at a ...
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Wifi completely stops working on Macbook Pro HighSierra 2011
My wifi will be working and then all of a sudden I get the no internet connection page on google chrome. My Wifi status bar still shows a full signal but nothing loads. So I go to turn my wifi off, ...
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Is it possible to connect Android's hotspot by one click, but still authenticated/authorized from MBP?
For me one of the most loved feature of Apple ecosystem is joining to my iPhone's hotspot by a click and skipping the enabling hotspot and entering password pain from my MBP and iPad.
Is there any ...
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Can I use my Apple TC's, Airport Extremes, and Expresses with Xfinity Gigabit Router?
Is it possible to use my 2 Apple Time Capsules, (1) Airport Extreme, and (2) Airport Express in bridge mode to expand the Network of an Xfinity Gigabit Router, while still using the Airport Expresses ...
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Apple TV/Internet line
I don't know if this is the place to ask by I'm trying to diagnose a problem with my Apple TV.
No matter what TV app I choose (BBC, Prime, Netflix etc) the program stops and I get a 'Something went ...
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Wifi much slower after security software download
I recently downloaded a vpn and security software (Avast security and windscribe vpn), but my wifi dropped significantly from about 150 mb/s to ~50 mb/s, sometimes much slower.
Even after I deleted ...
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Frequent freezing and random reboots in iMac (2015) running Mojave
After upgrading my 2015 iMac (Intel i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB Fusion Drive) to Mojave I been having nothing more then headache.
It all started with WiFi randomly dropping and when I navigate to the WiFi menu ...
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Is it possible to combine two iPhones with tethering to increase bandwidth or fault tolerance?
I'm using a MacBook as a "server" and want to keep it always connected to the internet, over cellular.
I have two mobile phones (one GSM, one CDMA) and would like to connect to each of them to ...
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WhatsApp calls with background data disabled
With Mobile Data and background app refresh turned off, can WhatsApp receive a call while the Wi-Fi is enabled, and the iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi access point with active Internet connection?
If ...
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Specific Wifi network connection history in OSX
Is there a way to see the history of connections to a specific wifi network in the last couple of months.
The idea is to focus on one particular SSID and on which days my laptop connected to that ...
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How to force iPhone to upload to iCloud over mobile data
Using iPhone 10.3.3 with no possibility of WiFi. Is there a way to force the use of mobile data to upload to iCloud?
I understand why the phone will not update using a potentially insecure signal but ...
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macOS: Disable promiscuous Wi-Fi scan and/or display of unwanted list of Wi-Fi networks?
I am annoyed by a display of all nearby Wi-Fi networks around me, when I know I am looking to connect to one among the couple of known networks.
Is there a setting to disable detection of new/unknown ...
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MDM software on iPhone - Monitoring hotspot use?
I have a company phone (iPhone 8) which I use as a hotspot for my personal phone sometime.
My company uses Blackberry MDM. In "rights", it says they can "list network information." What does that ...
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Wi-Fi can’t be turned on (MacBook Pro 2011, High Sierra 10.13.4) [duplicate]
The Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar is displaying as empty. When I open Network Preferences and press “Turn Wi-Fi On”, nothing happens.
I have tried making the Wi-Fi service inactive, deleting it, then ...
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iPhone drastically slowing down wifi
Every time I connect my iPhone to the home wifi the connection slows down drastically. I don't have any uploads running neither system updates so I cannot understand what is causing this issue.
I ...
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Internet dies on MBP 15 2017 the moment I start Windows on Parallels
This is the weirdest problem that I have ever faced. I have a MacBook Pro 15 2017 (MPTR2LL/A ?, running on MacOS 10.14.1), and I recently installed Windows using Bootcamp (dual boot) and then ...
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WiFi connects, no internet
Yesterday my wifi suddenly stopped working on my Mid 2014 MBP, Mojave 10.14.1
Network is up, as other devices can connect, same issue with mobile hotspot.
Network diag says there is no issue. The ...
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USB-C wifi interference: VGA adapter recommendation (Macbook pro 2018) [duplicate]
I just got a new MacBook Pro and bought this USB-C to VGA adapter to connect it to an external display (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076X2XS9R/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1#...
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How to use USB wifi adapter on a MacBook Pro running on Mojave
I need to create a wifi from the wifi my computer get, I bought a tp link USB adapter, used the USB to USB-c MacBook Pro adapter and connected it to my computer, then I downloaded the drivers but I ...
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Problem connecting to public wifi on Macbook Pro [closed]
When I try to connect to public WiFi networks that have a pop-up window to finish connecting, a notice comes down saying “A problem occurred. The webpage could not be loaded” and I am unable to fully ...
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Limit - not disable - Remember joined Wi-Fi locations
I'm building an entirely new corporate infrastructure - ATM I have ~200 macs expanding to over 600 in the next year.
I need to configure the Wi-Fi with two locations:
Corporate Network
Off - Site
I'...
