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mariociabarra / wifriedx

Band-aid for Yosemite WiFi Issues. Menu bar item which disables/enables awdl0 interface. Brings interface up/down with PriviledgedHelper
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Is This Still Helpful for El Capitan Users? #5

Closed jcmiller11 closed 8 years ago

jcmiller11 commented 8 years ago

Your README.md simply says "Band-aid for Yosemite WiFi issues"

Are these issues still present in more recent versions of OS X?

mariociabarra commented 8 years ago

Apple has tuned the parameters so that the negative effects are negligible. While there is still frequency hopping of the WiFi interface between channel 149 (the apple chosen AWDL channel) and the active WiFi channel (your connected access point channel), they've reduced the length of time which the AWDL interface is communicating in discovery mode (discovering other devices). In other words, I wouldn't highly recommend installing WiFriedX on the 10.11.3+ El Capitain. While there's some advantages of disabling it all together, the problem has been minimized enough that it's no longer an issue for the general public as it was previously.