Wi Fi issue on Mabook

Every time i launch Second Life it runs fine for a few minutes, then it knocks out my airport connection, causing all the networks to disappear and requiring a system restart to get back online. I've got a choice of 2 networks and both are pretty fast (200 - 400kbps) But it happens on both networks every time i launch Second Life.

This occasionally happens when running other programs but it is very rare.

Anyone know how i can fix this?

Thanks

Under most circumstances, SL runs marginally well for me on WiFi (AirPort on my MBP). I don't have the same crashing experience as you, but it's nowhere near as stable as when I'm connected via Ethernet. However, it REALLY clogs up the more uploading you're doing. As a live musician, it's really risky to try and keep my connection wireless, for example, since I'm streaming the audio from the computer.

One more place for something to go wrong, and SL is tenuous as it is, ya know?

not sure Zak's problem, but for 2 years now, my main way I've been on Sl is on my Macbook Pro on wireless... and it runs fine.... I have a Linksys router, not wasting money on an Apple branded router just cuz it has a flashy name and does the same thing...

if your whole router is dying when being used heavily... you need to look closer at the router, its probably the problem. If your on a laptop... see if you can stop by some place with "free internet" and see if it crashes theirs or works

If you dont have another router to test, you could always hook in another computer (if you have one) and turn it into a router.... that could be more complicated if you aren't sure what your doing. On Macs its easy, just have them connected tot he internet directly, and in sharing settings set you want to share the internet connection with airport... and it'll make its own wireless network others can connect to and get through the internet connection.

if you dont have any way to test if its your router... you can spend a lot of time troubleshooting the router to only find out its not the cause... but I'd bet money it is.... possibly just some settings that need to be tweaked.

It's not a "problem". SL under normal circumstances runs fine over WiFi. But like I said, I'm a live musician in world. We musicians are sending massive amounts of audio data, not just receiving lots of data. The data packets are too much for any WiFi system to handle well, and you start getting glitches in the audio as the data tries to catch up.

If all I'm doing is cruising around, talking to pals and so on, I have no problem at all running SL via AirPort.