Since Apple released the developer preview of the next OS X system Mavericks I cannot wait to try it on my old Mac Book Pro (2010 version). Although lots of people complaining that they constantly keep dropping wifi connection I had no issues at all until I upgraded the system to the DP 3 - wifi connection keeps dropping on my Mac.
There isn't a solution to fix the wifi issue after searching google for the solutions and I definitely don't want to rollback to Mountain Lion because the new memory compression feature works great on my machine with 8G memory. Usually I don't switch off the Mac but only put it to sleep mode and over time the 8G memory will be 100% used plus over 2.5G swap space used. This never happend again after it upgraded to Mavericks.
After the WIFI dropped I have to reconnect to the wifi point so I can access the network. As there isn't a proper solution to fix the issue and reconnect the wifi network will work the trick, why not automate it?
The easiest way to reconnect the wifi is run the command
ipconfig set en1 DHCP
We can use the cron job to run this command automatically every minute, however, we only want to run it after the connection dropped. So we need some intelligent to do that
# replace 10.0.0.1 to your router ip address
count=`ping -c 2 10.0.0.1 | grep icmp | grep timeout | wc -l`; if [ $count != 0 ]
then
ipconfig set en1 DHCP
# it tells you when the network was reset
osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to display dialog "Reset Wifi Connection From cron Job."'
fi
You can either put the code into one script and configure the cron to execute it every minute or just compile the code to one single line and past it on the cron job. I chose the second option:
# temperary fix the wifi dropping issue on OSX Mavericks # replace 10.0.0.1 to your router ip address * * * * * count=`ping -c 2 10.0.0.1 | grep icmp | grep timeout | wc -l`; if [ $count != 0 ]; then ipconfig set en1 DHCP;osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to display dialog "Reset Wifi Connection From cron Job."' ; fi
the osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to display dialog "Reset Wifi Connection From cron Job."' will notify you the network was reset with a popup message on the Finder window so you will remember to delete the job from cron once that's fixed by Apple.
