Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem Date: 9 Nov 2013 04:12:50 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net Nr/llsZhgaGq4A4tj1lFaQHjHsYFLrWH/2wLWJheoW++by4NNg Cancel-Lock: sha1:+d8dGjm0Q4YiOAL3JixGW/XI2yU= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:52079 On 2013-11-07, Ted Lee 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! -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR