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Have you had any WiFi issues with your M2 Pro?

In reply to a post by ian_c:

Have you had any WiFi issues with your M2 Pro?

I don't use Wi-Fi. What issues are we talking about?

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I don't use Wi-Fi.

Very wise. It has its uses for some bits of kit I'll admit, but otherwise it's a device of Beelzebub

Oh that's not a problem, then.

Mine was having a hell of a problem staying connected to the 5GHz channel (ridiculous lost packet levels), and a combination of a bit of Googling and a moment of inspiration led me to ID the culprit as an old HDMI cable - any lateral pressure on the plug and it set off a tsunami of interference that only affected 5GHz but made it unusable.

At the moment it is fixed by being very careful how I insert the plug. A new cable can wait until a new monitor.

So if you find yourself having to use wifi make sure all plugs are straight and snug. Also nature's way of telling me to wire up the house.

IMO it's a design defect in a machine that is otherwise an absolute screamer - seriously, it points at Photoshop and say "Ha! You call that complex?"

In reply to a post by billford:

Very wise. It has its uses for some bits of kit I'll admit, but otherwise it's a device of Beelzebub

I use Ethernet for as much as I can, if it has an Ethernet connection, then I will use it, even my printer.
Sometimes we have to use Wi-fi, most of my smart home stuff use Wi-fi, in fact I would say all of it apart from the Philips Hue and smart thermostats hubs.

In reply to a post by ian_c:

Oh that's not a problem, then.

Mine was having a hell of a problem staying connected to the 5GHz channel (ridiculous lost packet levels), and a combination of a bit of Googling and a moment of inspiration led me to ID the culprit as an old HDMI cable - any lateral pressure on the plug and it set off a tsunami of interference that only affected 5GHz but made it unusable.

At the moment it is fixed by being very careful how I insert the plug. A new cable can wait until a new monitor.

So if you find yourself having to use wifi make sure all plugs are straight and snug. Also nature's way of telling me to wire up the house.

IMO it's a design defect in a machine that is otherwise an absolute screamer - seriously, it points at Photoshop and say "Ha! You call that complex?"

strange, it could be a ground problem or the shield of the plug, depends on where the antennas are.

I got to sort out the cables and make them better, put some longer ones in so I can pull them properly. I was going to use where the TV aerial co-ax goes from this room into the living room as I have never used the extensions since they were installed, they are not even connected to an aerial anyway.


not sure what you are on about with photoshop.

I suspect it's just and old and slightly worn cable + antenna positioning.

Didn't happen with the Intel mini, but occasionally the screen would just go fritz and need the plug pulling and reinserting to clear it (but so infrequently that it didn't enter my mind when trying to diagnose the M2.

I'm just saying it finds even the highest resolution, multi-layer images a breeze to deal with. The AI stuff that would have taken 10-15 minutes on my old box range from instant to 20 seconds on the M2 Pro.

In reply to a post by ian_c:

I suspect it's just and old and slightly worn cable + antenna positioning.

Didn't happen with the Intel mini, but occasionally the screen would just go fritz and need the plug pulling and reinserting to clear it (but so infrequently that it didn't enter my mind when trying to diagnose the M2.

I'm just saying it finds even the highest resolution, multi-layer images a breeze to deal with. The AI stuff that would have taken 10-15 minutes on my old box range from instant to 20 seconds on the M2 Pro.

I don't why you don't get a new cable, they are cheap enough, mine is a Rhino one, cost £7 for 3 meters.

Oh yeah, I am amazed at the power of this small machine, it does things that even my power hungry ryzen machine would struggle with.Ok so my Ryzen machine is getting on now, but even a more modern Pc would struggle unless I go for something like a R9 and some powerful video card, and then they would still take more energy to do it.

As it is running at the moment, just writing this, it is taking around 8 watts, my Pc took around 80 watts or so doing nothing, that is crazy. It went up to around 70watts when rendering a video.

I am not turning into a Mac fanboy as I have never been a fanboy of anything, I use what works for me and I don't normally get stuck on a brand as people would see if they came into my house. But I must admit I did prefer Corsair memory and drives to others., but even then the drive in my dock for the mac is a Maxtor. I have room for a NVMe drive in there as well, so will get one at some point, but not going crazy in price.
So as I said I am not a MAc fanboy, but I do love this machine, even some of the apps that comes included are good and as people will know I am not one for having built in apps, but numbers and pages are good. It is a bit annoying that there are apps I don't need, and I can't get rid of them, like the news app and Apple TV app, but I will just have to put with them being there.

Is Mac Os perfect? no, but it is certainly better than Windows and I wish I had listened to Mac owners before, but you live and learn.,

I think I may be trying to motivate myself to shell out on a new colour calibrated screen (also the existing cable is one of the DVI-hdmi jobbies that were rare enough to begin with). At the moment I just don't want to disturb anything because it's working well )

In reply to a post by ian_c:

I think I may be trying to motivate myself to shell out on a new colour calibrated screen (also the existing cable is one of the DVI-hdmi jobbies that were rare enough to begin with). At the moment I just don't want to disturb anything because it's working well )

I got a calibrated monitor a few years ago, an Acer, it is a good monitor.
What are you on about a DVI- HDMI cable is not rare, I have one here, not really used now, it is connected to the second monitor just in case.

I don't like disturbing things if they are working.