Hi Ronnie, yes sorry I didn't mention that, I had many times done a full reboot of both the Macbook and the wireless router. Short story is I have resolved the issue just in the last few minutes. I looked at the error code in the Safari window when the failure was occurring. When I did a google search (on my iPad) it indicated that the likely cause was a firewall protection device was the cause. The error code was "NSPOSIXErrorDomain" which doesn't really tell the reader too much until a search. I browsed to the various library sub-folders looking for firewall device files - and I recalled many years ago I had netnanny and I found one of those files sitting there. So I trashed it. Upon restarting the Macbook, immediately the Dropbox icon lit up - and in turn the safari browser now works. Clearly not uninstalling correctly previously caused this but very annoying that it took 3 hours of my time to find and unpick this. So I am back in business. I hope the main reason has been corrected to with the slow Wifi connection time being resolved. We will see if the lovely Mrs C is happy going forth. All the best to you all. Kind Regards
Peter Crisp ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: Cc: Sent:Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:36:09 +0800 Subject:Re: Macbook Wifi connection ok but no Internet connection Hi Peter, You haven’t mentioned if you have: 1. Restart the MacBook and your wireless router even if other devices can connect to the Internet. Kind regards, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone 7 Plus > On 17 Apr 2020, at 10:20 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: > > Hi folks, I have been trying to resolve for some hours on my wife’s Macbook. It is a 2011 unit 10.14.6 Mojave OSX and she was having very slow Wifi connection from sleep issues. So i deleted the Wifi connection and re-established it. > > The issue I am now having done this is the inability to get Internet connection. I have truly watched and read many many threads on this issue and carried out the ‘repair’ ideas but none has worked. I can send a text over iMessage (within the house) and the text is received - so Wifi is working, but there is no connection outside of the house. All other devices in the house are fine. > > With the Dropbox icon in the menu bar, I can see in an instant if a Internet connection gets connected - it remains greyed out at the moment - though normally is dark font indicating a connection is established. > > Tried all sorts of resetting ideas. New connection in System Prefs>Network. Delete the plist files. I think I may have even resolved this previously (many years ago). As it is a long time between issues, I basically start from scratch each time to sort it. > > Many of the clips indicate resetting the Wifi network config will resolve but not for this one. Seems I have a unique set of circumstances here. > > I hope some of you may have some ideas. > > Regards > > > Pete > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - > Guidelines - > Settings & Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe -
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