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I have a 2014 MacBook Pro and had the Yosemite Wifi issues. And looking at the Apple forums a ton of other people had them too. It has become better (from totally unusable) but Wifi still cuts out from time to time.

I wonder if these problems were already apparent during the test phase.

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I never had any WiFi problems with Yosemite. The thing is, there are millions of people using macs and even if 0.1% have problems, forums will be swarmed by them.

I can say that I definitely experienced and experiencing laggy animations compared to mavericks. Launchpad animation is like 3-5 FPS and is very noticeable. But probably many people just don't care about that.

I have no issues. Until I enable my Bluetooth mouse. Easily solved by using the 5ghz band but really. An apple mouse fucks up my connection from my apple laptop to my apple access point. That's really unacceptable.

Yeah, physics sucks.

Modern WiFi and Bluetooth hardware is meant to have coexistence support so that the two don't trample all over each other.

I have the same problem and apparently the laws of physics changed when Yosemite was released. Before it was fine.

I too had WiFi trouble when bluetooth was enabled. The commands below fixed it for me (it might be that only one was effective but I've had no trouble since Feb 7). YMMV.

sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -boolean YES

Once Apple ditched DiscoverD, my wifi and bluetooth woes disappeared instantly. I had a problem where my connection speed suddenly would drop to no more that about 7k as second through wifi which required zapping the PRAM on my 2013 MacBook Pro until a week or so the connection would start exhibiting the same problems. mDNSresponder seems to work like a charm in Yosemite.

This is why I thought Apple joining the WiFi broad is a good thing. And from their hiring they will eventually make their own WiFi Chipset as well.

Because WiFi, right now SUCKS. The software and hardware together, the compatibility, all those optional features, Wave 1, Wave 2 etc.....

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