Limewire killed my network connection!
 

Has anyone else experienced a sudden failure in their network connection the moment limewire opens? I'm running 3.8.5 and on an airport dhcp connection. This has happened twice in a row and the only way to regain my connection is by rebooting. I'm on the latest version of panther w/all the latest updates.

I'm having the same exact problem. I'm connected by DHCP with my wireless from my iBook. I always connected find on LimeWire. Since yesterday, as soon as I launch LimeWire, I loose my wireless connection. The only way to get it back is to restart the computer because doing a "renew" from the dhcp doesn't work.

The only thing of importance that I can recall doing from when it worked and yesterday, is updating my Airport software to the latest version... I'll try to uninstall that update and see if makes a difference.

I'm having the same problem. Though I haven't tried to uninstall the update, it seems to be the cause.

Also, you don't need to restart your Mac. I've found that putting it to sleep (closing the Powerbook in my case) and opening it back up again resets the network connection without restarting.

Definitely not a real solution, but better than going through the whole restart cycle.

I haven't had any problems with other types of network connections, including email, web and mounting of various remote volumes. Hopefully, Apple and LimeWire will be able to track and squash this bug.

Same here. When limewire is on for more than 12 hours suddenly limewire lost connection. Safari wont work etc. I have to reboot my router and or my dslmodem before i can continue. Sometimes everything works fine, but there are days......

The new update to airport sucks big time, many people have problems with it on the apple discussion forums. Reinstall airport 3.3 as it will fix the problem introduced by apple. You can find it there http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

remember: loss of connections are 99% of the time caused by poor network drivers and poor hardware (routers, wireless stations). LW being one heavy user of connections, poor setups fail with it while browsing the web does not cause the same effect (very low demanding in term of connections).

Bonne chance;)