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Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem

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From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem
Date 9 Nov 2013 04:12:50 GMT
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On 2013-11-07, Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> wrote:
> On 11/7/13, 1:36 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> I think if I were in this position, I  would try going into System
>> Preferences > Network, clicking the Location menu, and creating a new
>> location with settings that mimic the location you are currently using.
>> Then switch to that location and restart to see if things get better.
> That actually does seem to have sort of fixed it (making a new location, 
> not duplicating the existing one.)
> I've tried the sleep/wake cycle several times now and it has immediately 
> come up connected to the network I want.
> On the other hand, it is *not* looking for networks, so the only network 
> it's showing is the one I was on.  Turning wifi off and on doesn't get 
> it going looking for networks.  On the other other hand, while I was 
> typing this apparently it did find the other networks -- I suppose its 
> cycle for looking for networks is now a lot longer once it got connected 
> to one, or something like that.  Yup, restarted and now it has resumed 
> the behavior of looking for networks once every 10 seconds or so -- it 
> definitely was not looking at all that frequently before the restart.  
> It'll be interesting to see if the "right" behavior continues (I hadn't 
> done a restart  after doing the location switch.)

Let us know!

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Mavericks/WiFi problem Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-11-07 12:17 -0600
  Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-11-07 13:26 -0600
    Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-07 19:36 +0000
      Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-11-07 13:41 -0600
      Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-11-07 15:03 -0600
        Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-09 04:12 +0000
          Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-11-08 22:38 -0600
            Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-10 01:49 +0000
              Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-11-09 21:04 -0600
    Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-11-07 14:37 -0500
  Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem jmm7175@gmail.com - 2013-11-21 19:52 -0800

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