FEATURE Fast fixes for Mac
Help! My network won’t work
Is your Mac having trouble on your home network? Try these tricks
If turning your router and your Mac off and then on again doesn’t work, try running macOS’ builtin diagnostics to find where the problem is.
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These days, we rely on our home networks more than ever, especially when working wirelessly, remotely or from home.
Macs are easy to connect to home networks with Wi-Fi, but you can still encounter problems. Here we explore some of the more common issues, what you can do to identify and address them and how sometimes switching things off and on again is the only thing that works.
Seriously. If you can’t get on to the internet, or communicate with other devices on your network, your first step should be to turn off the router, count to 20 and turn it on again. You’ll be amazed how often this solves the problem.