My passport for mac keeps disconnecting

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Troubleshooting often involves a process of elimination and can require a lot of patience. Like I said, forums, google, reddit, and even the genius who I was on the phone with for over an hour are stumped. (IO80211FamilyV2) AirPort: Link Down on awdl0. (IO80211FamilyV2) AirPort: Link Down on en0. This is a list of disconnection events on my wifi in the last 24 hours (tried to do it in image format, but the screenshot was too big apparently): Please let me know which reports or parts of reports are useful. I have done wifi logging and diagnostics.

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There are no issues with speed or anything except these random disconnections. Four other people live here and they have no trouble, even those whose computers are located just as far away from the modem as me. I have created new locations for Home and School and renewed DCHP Lease for both.Īgain, there is nothing wrong with the wifi. I have reset NVRAM/PRAM and the SMC controller multiple times. I have restarted the computer and the modem, there is no router. But I have tried just to see if they were involved. I have disconnected every peripheral, even my mouse and backup external HD, which honestly I need, so any solution will have to include them working. It is just disconnecting from the network. As soon as I click back on the network, it immediately connects again.