For several months, my Beats Studio headphones were unable to maintain a reliable Bluetooth connection to my Late 2012 Mac mini no matter what I tried. That persisted from OS X 10.10.0 through 10.10.4 and even into the 10.11 public beta. Then a few weeks ago my NewerTech Bluetooth keypad refused to power up much less connect so I replaced it with a similar keypad from Belkin and voilá my Beats Studio headphones now work flawlessly.

My point is with Bluetooth, or any other RF (radio frequency) device for that matter, the source of the problem may not be where the symptoms are evidenced. That makes troubleshooting Wireless connectivity interesting as in the purported ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".


If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein