Wifi working fine for iPad but none of my MacBooks can connect to wifi why?
My iPad connects to my wifi network just fine, but none of the three laptops in the house connect. One is a one-year-old MacBook Air, another is a Pro around seven years old, and one's even older than that running an older OS (Lion) so the age of the laptop doesn't seem to be a factor. The phones also connect the the wifi network, it's just the laptops. What happens is the wifi tries to find a network, then doesn't connect to any, although our network shows up in the drop-down menu of networks. But if you click on it an error message comes up that says a connection timeout occurred and offers to run diagnostics (It doesn't offer diagnostics on the oldest laptop). Turning wifi on and off, going into network preferences, restarting the computers and the router, none of it does anything. The same issue happened yesterday, identical in every way, but it worked after turning the wifi on and off. This time it's been severeal hours and it shows no signs of fixing itself.
Thanks for the reply - we actually managed to solve it by removing some extra devices from using Wifi, so it seems like It was an update to the firmware (as you thought) which limited the number of devices on wifi at once. Thank you though!
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