Recently i've encountered wifi issue on my Macbook pro mid 2009 currently OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan so I bought external Wifi USB adapter but it is not working because of driver trouble(I installed drivers from CD), I tried searching internet but no luck, it works fine on Windows 10 even without installing drivers, I extracted driver installation package and found some files with pretty old dates around Nov 2012 While on Windows device is showing as 'Realtek RTL8188FTV' So is there any workaround like editing driver package or using any universal driver package on mac to have this work? Driver package from CD Package content Device detail as per System information Device working on windows 10. 10.11.6 did go and mess with my network settings because it went and reset all SNMP settings on my wifi adapter because my router logging software just failed after 10.11.6. Dstv explora connections. Proof that Apple are messing with settings I have already set on my machine. ![]() Words for step by step. As the Mac 911 columnist at Macworld, I’ve received hundreds of emails from people who have had Wi-Fi fail on their computers. In August 2016, I wrote a column that provided to troubleshoot the problem, which is sometimes caused by system software, sometimes by failed hardware, and sometimes by a bad connection. If you’ve gone through all those stages or you want a second Wi-Fi connection on your Mac—useful for firewalls, relaying a Wi-Fi network, and other purposes—the (model EW-7822ULC; $24.99 MSRP; available on ) seems to be not only a good solution, but the only solution. Once, a variety of alternatives existed for the Mac, but there’s no simply not enough of a market for them, and Edimax continues to update driver and utility software, keeping it viable. The drivers for macOS 10.12 Sierra only appeared in January, if you had previously discounted this as an option. The same driver also support OS X 10.7 to 10.11, making it a great solution for owners of Macs that can’t be updated or they prefer to keep on an older release, and have had a Wi-Fi failure. Edimax Even better, the Edimax adapter isn’t an old flavor of Wi-Fi. Rather, it’s the very hippest and latest thing: it uses 802.11ac Wave 2 with MU-MIMO, terms which require some unpacking. You may know that Wi-Fi is a trademark used by a trade group to cover a variety of wireless LAN (WLAN) standards that start with 802.11. The first standards in the family, 802.11a and b, appeared in 1999; the latest, 802.11ac, starting appearing in Apple’s base stations and Macs in 2013, and later in iOS devices. (All current models for sale of Macs, iPhones, and iPads have 802.11ac.) However, 802.11ac has appeared in waves.
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