Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!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: 10 Nov 2013 01:49:38 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 8FWRGuI940Kx0Fom30A1WwHb/XYmtoU80Di86Yg7jn0wLsXZJF Cancel-Lock: sha1:qWJUY113w9AdMyFL595rymkpu8Y= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:52091 On 2013-11-09, Ted Lee wrote: > On 11/8/13, 10:12 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: >> 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! >> > > 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: -- 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