Ever since I upgraded to iOS 8.1, I've seen random wifi drops where wifi just disappears completely and I've got to go back into Settings to reactivate wifi.
As you can imagine, it's exceedingly annoying when trying to watch a video.
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#24Did he file a bug report?
It doesn't seem like a bug, it seems like a trade off. In order to work over wifi it needs to flick between channels, reducing the uptime on the current channel you are using.
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#25Bonjour over Wifi is used for more than Airdrop - its also used for virtualized CoreMIDI endpoints, and Audio too .. maybe there's something to be said about paring down the Bonjour refresh interval or something, but then we'd all be complaining about how long it takes to connect our studio gear to the fancy set of iPads whose soul purpose is to rock and roll ..
I loved the homonym misuse of soul for sole, soul actually fits better for the metaphor.
Me too. :)
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#26Yeah when are they going to fix these issues? Everything was great until iOS 8 & Yosemite. My Mac with Yosemite can no longer use Airplay and my Airport Express no longer shows up as a supported Apple device in Airport Utility (despite the wifi still working)
IMHO everything was not "great" since Mavericks came about. My wifi (2012 MBP) started having issues connecting on wake, which were fixed and unfixed with each patch released. Now Yosemite will reconnect on wake, but DNS resolution will be broken, so when that happens i have to go in TCP/IP settings, make any change and "Apply" to get back to a working state.
It's 2014 and these were solved problems, I really don't know why they couldn't leave it well alone.
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#27Neat. This is very helpful. Hopefully it actually fixes the WiFi performance issues. I created an Alfred workflow for myself based on the terminal commands listed in the article to quickly enable/disable WiFried on Yosemite. It basically runs the terminal command after authenticating upon entering a keyword to trigger. Quick and easy, just like the iOS tweak.
Edit: Here's a link to the Alfred workflows to disable/enable AirDrop if you're interested. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/534072/WiFried.zip
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#28I'm surprised this issue wasn't caught at Apple. You would think they must have a huge network of Macs and iPhones--surely someone should have noticed the poor WiFi performance.
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#29I have noticed since iOS8 on an iPad3 and my 2012 MBP (non-retina) that Safari is insanely slow to resolve sites. It gets to about 15% of the progress bar and will just sit there.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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#30I have been suffering some really bizarre WiFi issues on my rMBP since upgrading to 10.10. I'll suddenly get latencies of a second or more. Switching WiFi networks or even turning WiFi off and back on again will solve the problem for a short period of time. I just tested this fix to do sudo ifconfig awdl0 down and my ping times are consistently low.
ditto here