MacOS Sequoia installed. Internet will randomly drop connection

Macs Pain wrote:

"Anyone using Handbrake? Transcoding videos completely breaks the

internet connection now on that Mac, doesn’t matter if WiFi or wired…"

Looks like the 15.0.1 update fixed this for me. :)

15.0.1 makes it worse for very many people. Suggest avoiding this update. Turning off the firewall helps, assuming you have Little Snitch as well. Do not suggest running with absolutely no firewall.

After reading through all the thoughtful comments and trying every suggestion, my Zoom still sounds like I am in a barrel. It is sad and frustrating that Apple still hasn't fixed the issue. I called their senior support yesterday. The man was very nice, but everything he suggested I have tried.

It has not fixed the issue. I still randomly have the network seem to drop, when all is fine. I can be streaming a video from Youtube or something and then have my Teams app report that the network was lost, my email will stop sending and receiving...but the the video is still streaming beyond a buffer. Seems like DNS config, some combination of flushing cache and preventing nslookup or something. After about 1 or 2 minutes it will return. Weird thing is that if it happens when I am in a Teams or Zoom call, I get bumped out for a few minutes...so different behavior than streaming video vs. streaming collaboration.

Might try this...

macOS Sequoia network issues - Apple Community

I have similar problems with Zoom and my mics.

All Apple senior advisors can do is send me to their site for feedback -- Product Feedback - Apple

They attempt to blame third party apps.

Check you WiFi settings. A new feature was introduced and not much was said about during beta testing

Three settings are in it. Off, Fixed and Rotating

In wifi settings, choose your network, select settings and change the value of private address to not active.

That's worked for me.

Mine is set to fixed and I am still having issues with random drops. Websites in a chromium based browser are having connectivity issues, ssh connection are being kicked off. Ugh!

Also make sure you aren't running any VPN. Disable any firewalls or other 3rd party "security" apps.

Tried troubleshooting that way too. Best luck I’ve had so far (though not solved) is disabling little snitch content filter through the network settings.

I use Little Snitch and so far with Version 6.1.1 haven't had any trouble with it (knock on wood).

hi there, how do I do this? I am not a "techy" person and I am really struggling with this. Everyone keeps mentioning the "snitch" and I dunno what this is lol THANK YOU!

This is exactly a problem that I’ve faced. I can’t even access web browsers either - it will never load in for me.

Norton will bring many Macs to their knees.