I have noticed that Wi-Fi on macOS Ventura has high jitter. This affects any real-time application. It is common for latency (ping) to spike to spike from a normal 2-10ms to nearly 200ms. This has happened in 13.0 and now 13.1. The only fix so far has been to disable AWDL; which is used by AirDrop and AirPlay:
The issue disappears until the computer goes to sleep. Upon resume, one has to toggle AWDL up and then down to get jitter back down.
There are a few posts on Reddit in regards to this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/zl3v3h https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/ynhwur
One company has a support article about it; note that 13.1 still has this issue:
UCLA has a support article about it:
Someone trying to figure out how to disable AWDL permanently:
Other StackExchange report:
Why is Apple not acknowledging this issue nor fixing it?
Code:
sudo ifconfig awdl0 down
The issue disappears until the computer goes to sleep. Upon resume, one has to toggle AWDL up and then down to get jitter back down.
Code:
sudo ifconfig awdl0 up
sudo ifconfig awdl0 down
There are a few posts on Reddit in regards to this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/zl3v3h https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/ynhwur
One company has a support article about it; note that 13.1 still has this issue:
Recent Apple updates leading to Wi-Fi issues
Meter is currently tracking an issue that is affecting M1/M2 Macbooks and leading to slow internet connection, drops in Zoom calls, and entirely losing a Wi-Fi connection.
www.meter.com
UCLA has a support article about it:
Status Records - UCLA Status
systemstatus.ucla.edu
Someone trying to figure out how to disable AWDL permanently:
Force disabling AWDL on Ventura or above
Somewhere around macOS Ventura or Monterey, Apple changed the built-in Wi-Fi kernel driver so that the virtual device for AWDL represented in ifconfig now passes the activation state of AWDL data
apple.stackexchange.com
Other StackExchange report:
Why is my WiFi speed killed by certain events?
Update: This is a bug that has been recently fixed with the release of macOS Ventura 13.1. I have a MacBook Pro M1 14" and have it connected to a 5Ghz WiFi. I can usually use WiFi and Bluetooth
apple.stackexchange.com
Why is Apple not acknowledging this issue nor fixing it?
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