Comments on: Airport connection dropping off – how to fix it

By: Spaz

Spaz — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:11:42 +0000

What an amazingly simple fix to an outrageously frustrating problem. Great work!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:43:53 +0000

Martin, I couldn’t find the files from the original post either, however I am fairly Mac savy and discovered that on some machines, those two files are renamed com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and com.apple.network.identification.plist which are both within [harddrive]/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

deleting those two files fixed this problem for me.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:24:25 +0000

I am have the same problem trying to connect. I followed the instructions for removing the com.apple.internetconfig.plist and com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist. These files were not found and they were not found when I searched manually.

Where do I go from here?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:43:05 +0000

Works great. Thanks for the help.

By: hello

hello — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:14:07 +0000

Thanks so much! This was driving me absolutely nuts, as I didn’t know at first if my connection drop-offs were due to Airport or my router/network. After realizing it was Airport’s problem, I tried looking at different website, all with complicated approaches on how to solve this thing. But yours – which was so simple – WORKED! And I’m happy now! Thanks again.

By: Jh

Jh — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:18:42 +0000

To backup is to copy them somwhere safe before you delete them. Backups are no different on Mac than on pc. But there are many ways to do backups on both.

Deleting the files will cause new to be created. The idea of deleting them in first place is that they become corrupted. They are simply XML files that keeps some settings. So when deleting you normally will need to set up the settings again thus creating new setting files that hopefully are not corrupt.

Though not all plist files will be recreated automatically, therefore backup before deleting. If deleting them an setting up the network does nothing to fix your problems copy back the originals.

By: dayneboi

dayneboi — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:09:34 +0000

capt sam I have the same problem as you. i keep getting that libary/preference/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist. i need help bad. i been letting this go wayyyy too long. can somebody help me out here

By: capt sam

capt sam — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:04:45 +0000

I did found the 2 files and deleted them as mentioned above. the internet works perfectly but after a while i found one of the files again in libary/preference/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist. i deleted again and the same thing happened over and over .. any help anyone knows what to do please .. thanks

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:01:54 +0000

I feel like an idiot, because I don’t know what you all mean by “BACKUP” the files…..? What do I do ?? Where do I back them up to ?? I am a relative noob to Macs, so any help is GREATLY appreciated !

Tom

By: Moe

Moe — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:10:43 +0000

I am having the exact same problem you described above. I did what you said and it still did not fix the problem, so do you have any idea why this did not work for me or is it something I’m missing. I looks up online and this website is the only site that mentioned this problem is there any website I can go check for more info about this situation?