Comments on: Fix for Wireless Connection Problems on MacBook Pro

By: Bret W.

Bret W. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:35:15 +0000

Didn't work for me, I'm afraid. I think I'll try some of the other suggestions in the comments section…

By: Tye

Tye — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:41:19 +0000

Ok this is the first time that I have added to blog. I love my Macbook pro but have been extremely frustrated with wireless problems. Thank you sooooooo much…this completely fixed my problem.

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By: Guig

Guig — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:30:15 +0000

Just thought I would add to the comments to reinforce the validity of the fix. Though its only been about 20 minutes since I turned off ipv6 (this alone didn't change anything, so I'm not sure if it was necessary) and zapped the PRAM, there seems to be a marked difference in my wireless connection at home.

By: SomersetClaire

SomersetClaire — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:43:44 +0000

Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou so much !!! I have an imac and over the past year it has connected via wireless no problem. I've got snow leopard and it was working perfectly. However the last month I have not been able to access the internet via wifi. Just like all those listed here – usual story, connection timeout message. I could connect to any other wireless router but not my own. I tried everything previously suggested i.e resetting from WAP to WEP, changing channels, resetting keychains etc nothing worked. However I just followed the steps as per described ending up with zapping the PRAM and it worked !!! Yeeee Haaaaaa. After a month of not connecting it worked first time. You have so helped me thanks thanks thanks so much.

By: June

June — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:07:18 +0000

Couldn't get my Macbook Pro to connect to my wireless after upgrading to Snow Leopard (used to work fine before that). Tried dozens of suggestions posted on the internet but none of them worked. Then I tried the suggestion posted here of resetting the PRAM. It worked! Excellent. Thanks for the very clear instructions, much appreciated.

By: Amit Patel

Amit Patel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:37:51 +0000

Thank you — zapping the PRAM worked for me!

By: beth

beth — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:56:12 +0000

Folks I have been a certified Mac Technician for 5 years now and I will tell you that Macs have just as many unique, petty and quirkier issues as Window computers if not more because most companies that develop network, software, and printers think of Macs as an after thought then the engineers do a haphazard means of making their product work with Macs so most of the time it works half way or not at all. One thing I have come across is an issue with trying to get Cisco routers to work with Macs especially wireless and through airport cards. I have tried several different fixes and had to get created with some of my setups so I hate to say this but I'm thinking about a PC for myself now….

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:03:23 +0000

ipv6 – I turned it off – wireless worked for the first time in a month – thanks for the help!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:33 +0000

I have just fixed my Wireless problem , on my 5th call to apple care, it worked out to be the router channel, that was causing the problem. It seems that most routers are on channel 11 so i had change it to channel 5 and it has sorted the problem.
you need to go to Network, select Airport on the left hand column, press Advanced, Select TCP/IP, Copy and paste the Router number into safari press return, My user name was Administrator and the password was the serial number off the router, if this does not work call your internet provider they will tell you what it is, than you need to Configure your wireless access point, i am using 02 so i found it at,( home network, WLAN: O2wirelessC593EB, Configure, top right hand corner, than channel.
Try and go lower than 11, hope this helps