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Re: Mavericks/WiFi problem

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On 2013-11-09, Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> wrote:
> On 11/8/13, 10:12 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>
> No change from the above.  It does seem fairly consistently now to find 
> my preferred network right away after a sleep/wake cycle.  At first it 
> will show  "looking for network" every 10 seconds or so if I pull down 
> the wifi menulet.  After a while (minutes?) it will stop doing that.  It 
> will then still immediately find my preferred network after a sleep, but 
> it won't resume the "looking for a network".  Turning wifi off/on 
> doesn't start it looking, but a restart does.  Basically now I'm a happy 
> but puzzled camper.

Glad you got at least part of the issue resolved. I would try resetting
the SMC to see if that gets you closer to expected behavior:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964>

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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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