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  • #2844

    urgui
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    #2845

    doovers
    Participant

    Thanks for the suggestion, it’s a great workaround for issues I was having with Airplay mirroring but unfortunately doesn’t fix the dropouts.

    #2851

    Alex – NetSpot
    Keymaster

    Nice. We are also speaking with Apple, as a dev.

    #2854

    Ingo
    Participant

    Hi guys.

    Same Problem and maybe a few interesting Information here.
    First my Problem.

    At normal usage Safari, Mail, even uploading big Data over hours to WeTransfer i have no Problems.
    But i always have Problems with Airplay Musik from Iphone (IOS 8.1.1) and Laptop (Yosemite 10.10.1) to my AirPort Express.

    Same Problem forwarding the Sound from my AppleTv to my Airport Express.
    So even there is one more problem than only OS X and IOS ?

    So I installed NetSpot and saw this dropouts.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9waksiedjapx9y/Bildschirmfoto%202014-11-28%20um%2017.55.06.png?dl=0

    But then realized that i don’t get them if i don’t look at NetSpot.
    For example here i looked a website for a time. NetSpot was open but not on Focus.
    Safari was over it. Then the Graph looks like this.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/5m1gkjyz9907xsp/Bildschirmfoto%202014-11-28%20um%2017.54.50.png?dl=0

    This very interesting Article describes the Problem a bit deeper!
    https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-performance-issues-3029a164ce94
    So I thought there has to be a connection and tried to ping during NetSpot.
    Verry interesting Result.

    Pinging my own Router without Netspot!
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/0bckpuvbf64fv1y/Bildschirmfoto%202014-11-28%20um%2017.41.44.png?dl=0

    and With Netspot!!
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/cp8qq0o30e0s6p0/Bildschirmfoto%202014-11-28%20um%2017.44.08.png?dl=0

    So it confirmed what was written in the article.
    And just that you get it right, Netspot is not the reason for the Dropoffs.
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    Perform a speed test (many apps to choose from) and simply pull open the Control Center. This will cause the discoveryd process to browse and advertise services over your WiFi interface.
    ###############
    So every Program that initializes this discovery process will cause this problem and
    Netspot probably does this too. Would make sense because it Updates the WLAN List
    all the time.

    The here described workaround didn’t work for me.

    ############################################################
    Either way, you can fix your Yosemite WiFi issues, at the cost of disabling AWDL and AirDrop, by typing the following command at the OSX terminal:

    sudo ifconfig awdl0 down
    And vice versa to restore AirDrop and AWDL (and the WiFi issues)

    sudo ifconfig awdl0 up
    For clarification: that’s “a w d (lowercase L) (number zero)”
    ############################################################

    greets
    Ingo

    #2863

    Lightnin93
    Participant

    I’m using a Mid 2010 MBP 15″ having the same drop outs in Netspot but pings continue to go through.

    #2865

    Alex – NetSpot
    Keymaster

    As a quick workaround, try setting the Scan Interval to 10 seconds or more in Discover mode. This is helping our testers. Obviously Mac OS X is prioritizing access to WiFi, and just drops it for too intensive apps. Still working on a permanent fix. Still hoping Apple fixes the framework. In our tests OS X 10.10.2b2 still buggy.

    #2877

    doovers
    Participant

    For info, I’m still getting dropouts after update with 10 sec interval…

    #2878

    Ingo
    Participant

    The new pre release 10.10.2 (14C81f) seems stable and no more drop offs finally for me.

    #2881

    Alex – NetSpot
    Keymaster

    Great news. We are verifying this now.

    #2892

    nick.lowe
    Participant

    Certainly great news if this is resolved in 10.10.2!

    #2896

    Alex – NetSpot
    Keymaster

    We still cannot confirm the fix with 10.10.2. But we see that it was improved on some systems.

    #2902

    gazchops
    Participant

    I am running 10.10.2 (14C81f), still getting the dropouts continuously, unless set to scan at 30sec intervals, then only occasional dropouts! WiFi is rock solid as streaming radio no prob!

    #2906

    Alex – NetSpot
    Keymaster

    We are testing a number of solutions here. But it seems that 2 identical Macs, 2 identical configs and OS X updates may act completely differently. It’s a kind of selective framework issue. We are keeping an eye on it. Hopefully Apple provides some updates asap.

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