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Recently I have experienced a few problems with the Sleep / Wake function of one of my drives that then causes MacOS to restart.
Unfortunately sometimes that still does not wake up the drive and it needs powered down and restarted, then MacOS needs Shut down, left for a moment and restarted. Thankfully that process seems to be sorting out the hard drive issue, however it also seemed to bring another problem with it.
Following the shut down and restarting of the computer it appears that the wifi has connected without issue, but I have no internet connection. Nothing. No Internet, no email, no connections of any kind. No amount of restarting, rebooting or waiting would solve it. No amount of disconnecting the wifi rescanning, trying to connect to the iPhone as a hotspot would bring my internet activiites back to life. So how do you fix it?