2010 MacBook Pro: terrible WiFi reception?
My 2010 15" MBP has constant Wifi dropouts, sometimes minutes at a time. Sometimes I have to reconnect. Yet it gets 4 bars. My MacBook never had these problems. It's generally slower, too. It's now useless for online video like Hulu. Anyone else seeing this? I wonder whether it's hardware (e.g. they moved the antenna, and/or because of the metal case) or software/drivers?
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My 2010 15" MBP has constant Wifi dropouts, sometimes minutes at a time. Sometimes I have to reconnect. Yet it gets 4 bars. My MacBook never had these problems. It's generally slower, too. It's now useless for online video like Hulu. Anyone else seeing this? I wonder whether it's hardware (e.g. they moved the antenna, and/or because of the metal case) or software/drivers?
No problems here with WifI so far. Had to reinstall a fresh OS as a first thing today though, migration assistant solidly refused to work past a certain point over FW800. Ended up doing it with Ethernet after wiping the HD clean.
No problems here with WifI so far. Had to reinstall a fresh OS as a first thing today though, migration assistant solidly refused to work past a certain point over FW800. Ended up doing it with Ethernet after wiping the HD clean.
Gnews can you watch streaming video? Mine is actually extremely slow. 30-100k/s or something. Hulu and other videos frequently mess up or stutter. I'm going to wait to see if 10.6.4 or another update fixes it. If not, I'm exchanging for a white MacBook for what I expect will be no restocking fee since it's defective.
In fact, it just dropped on me just now when I went to edit. I was going to say 1337 I'm going to Charleston in a week so I'll drop in to their store. Anyhow I noticed it just dropped when I clicked edit for 10 secs. The little Airport in 10.6 thing with the moving bars animated for 10 secs. It's just so annoying. It wouldn't be a deal-killer back in the day, but it really kills streaming video and downloads, and that's a big part of my Net use now. My thing is...maybe it's not just the metal case? can it be solved by firmware? But if so why hasn't it been solved? Anyway I hope so. Otherwise this unit is sweet. I'm even starting to like the weird track pad.
Sorry to say, but my experience with both the Aluminium MBP and the new unibody MBP have been excellent using WiFi. Certainly not any worse than the white iBooks back in the old days or the non-unibody MacBooks.
My MacBook Pro is jealous of your MacBook Pro.
I got the 15 inch macbook pro I5 a week ago and just noticed that after about 1 to 1.5 hrs my macbook will lose it's connection to my linksys router. It still shows full bars in the airport areas, but I can't get online. Reconnecting to the router fixes it, and turn the router on and off fixes it too. I have several other laptops and iphones that connect to the same router with no problem whatsoever and never drop the connection. I wonder if this is something that can be fixed with software.
You'd hope so but MBPs have had this dropping issue for years. I had it big time this morning. I'll see how the replacement unit functions and report back.