Airport base stations lock up under heavy load

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I have had a lot of problems with my original Airport base station (the one with two ethernet ports). After about one to two days of running LimeWire the base station does lock up. It starts with traffic getting slower and slower until you are not even able to reach the base station using the admin program (it displays the dreaded spinning beach ball cursor while attempting to contact the base station). The only way to regain control of the base station was to power cycle it.

I initially thought I had a bad device and looked for a replacement. I did find another nice router from Netgear and never looked back.

But two days ago I accidently let my Mac log into my neighbours brand new Airport Extreme base station (freshly installed without any encryption!) and today coming back to my Mac I see that his Airport Extreme base station locked up like mine did.

My conclusion: if you want to use Gnutella with wireless networks stay away from Apple Airport base stations, use anything else on the market.

Well, now I have to go over and tell the neighbour of my deeds. Oh well. :-)