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Macbook freezes router?

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mcmanus7

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Oct 30, 2008
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Alright here's the deal.. I have a macbook 2,1 (10.6.2).. I'm using a netgear WGT624 V3 updated to the newest firmware which has worked really well for me...

On the wireless network I have a wireless printer, my macbook, and 2 pc laptops.

I can connect via WIFI using all computers... the issue is that if I am surfing on my Macbook and I goto a website that is picture intensive ie. a forum thread with a bunch of wallpapers or sports pictures some will half load and then freeze the router.

once the macbook freezes the router it has to be reset and the entire network goes down. If I visit the same sites on the pc's there's no issue.

Any ideas on how to fix this?? 99% of the time there's no issue with regular websites but any website that has a lot of pictures on it that need to load ie. a webforum with pictures posted will cause this issue.

Thanks.
 
What do you mean it freezes the router? The router won't work with other computers until it's restarted either? Is there anything unusual going on with its diagnostic lights? Can you access the router web config page?
 
The router itself does not give off any diagnostic lights... it appears normal... the router cannot be logged into during that time and no computers can access the router (ethernet or wifi). The router will not work with any computer until it is reset.
 
but why would it only be having an issue with the MacBook???

I do some pretty heavy downloading using the other two pc's and there's no issues with them.
 
mcmanus7 said:
but why would it only be having an issue with the MacBook???

I do some pretty heavy downloading using the other two pc's and there's no issues with them.
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The router can't tell your MacBook from any other machine from a network perspective. I think it's a fluke.
 
sorry blue was responding to belvdr when you replied.

I'll give that a shot... complete factory reset.
 
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