Ross, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I understand the quirkiness of wireless networks and interference. The problem with it being unable to connect to slimserver just struck me as being an Airport not letting slimserver in or kicking it out issue. But my wireless problem is now at the bottom of a long list. I'm about ready to go out and change every piece of equipment that I own because just minutes ago I had slimserver go black, this time through the wired connection! This is actually the issue that started all of my recent computer grief. I hit a key to wake my IMAC out of sleep and it was frozen for a minute. The screen blinked and then the computer was operational. Then it says that my firewire drive was improperly disconnected. I shut the drive off for a minute, turned it back on and music is currently playing. A couple of weeks ago everything was fine until this very same thing happened. Sometimes the crash would be as described above and other times it would be a complete lock up and I would have to hold the power button down and shut off just to get the computr to respond at all. I checked the Macintosh forums and there are reports of Airports doing this very thing. The Imac forums have reports of IMAC's also doing this very thing. To confuse even further there are reports on the forum that the last software update 10.4.10 is also crashing people similarly. This update is on the IMAC but not the powerbook. So is it the IMAC or the Airport? Last week I called Apple and I'm ready to bring the IMAC in per their recommendation. Then I read the mac forums and think maybe it's the Airport so I try hooking up my external drive to my powerbook and run slimserver through that. This puts the IMAC out of the picture with the powerbook running through the airport. I then shockingly (to me) get the same exact crashes more than once. I then figure it has to be the Airport so I switch from my old Airport Extreme to an Airport Express and get the same problem. I then buy a new Airport Extreme N and I thought the crashing problem was done with. This brings us to today and this post. After one day the crashes are back. The mac forums for the new Airport Extreme believe it or not mention the same exact problem! One person says even with the airport turned off and it just being used as a router! This is how I had it set up with Airport off on my last crash. So I'm trying to think of my next step here before I lose my mind. I picked up a Linksys 5-port workgroup switch. I'm thinking about trying this with the IMAC or maybe the powerbook first to try to get to the bottom of this. My ethernet cables are fairly new but I'm so paranoid at this point I may buy all new cables. Anybody out there have any ideas at all on this madness? Thanks, Ron
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