AIM brings down the network

[DevilDog#1]

Anyone having issues running AIM? Every time I turn it on my network goes down. What's up with that?

[Hellfighter]

AOL is moving away from Internet service and going to be a search engine ads service, was on the new last 90days

too much fines for them to handle i think is the main reason they dropping their internet service part totally.

think Jan/2008 first of the year there be no more AOL Internet service

think they be more like google

[DevilDog#1]

Huh? AIM = AOL Instant Manager not the AOL ISP ...

[Hellfighter]

they are the same guy, it part of their service freebie but still it may drop as will, i don't see it being of part of the search engine.

count how they look at it, they may drop it as will

[SilentTrigger]

What router is it? Some routers tend to go down with sertain software, are there any firmware updates for it? Had the same problem with All Seeing Eye, there are usually problems with programs that open alot of ports, don't know if AIM is one of those but might be.

[EDGE]

I've been running AIM since my computer has been on. It's been up and running now for 7 days and 13 hours. No problems with AIM on my end.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by SilentTrigger*MFA*
What router is it? Some routers tend to go down with sertain software, are there any firmware updates for it? Had the same problem with All Seeing Eye, there are usually problems with programs that open alot of ports, don't know if AIM is one of those but might be.

Linksys G Router with Superboost. It's up to date as far as firmware is concerned.

[SilentTrigger]

Was a linksys that I had issues with All Seeing Eye, but have never had any problems with AIM. Is it a WRT54G? If so, what version?

[Steve]

all the comps lose network connection?

[Jckl]

I would update my definitions in my anti virus and scan. There may be a virus or trojan that is flooding whenever aim is open causing the computer to loose its network connection. Also are all computers loosing internet or just this one.

[ShArP]

mine is running just fine on my end aswell...

[teej]

id just get trillian. imo

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by SilentTrigger*MFA*
Was a linksys that I had issues with All Seeing Eye, but have never had any problems with AIM. Is it a WRT54G? If so, what version?

4.0

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Steve
all the comps lose network connection?

Yep. Whole network goes down.

[SilentTrigger]

Then it's not a memory issue, not sure what it might be, i'll try running AIM on my new router and see if i get the same problem

Not the same issue but it did use plenty of ports to connect and if the time out on the router is set to slow it will add conecctions constantly and this will take the network down atleast thats what i've heared and i think that is what happend with All Seing Eye for me

[Steve]

i used to have the same thing with gamespy, stopped using gamespy :/

[Jckl]

are you able to ping any other computer or website when it takes the network down?ping operates at a lower level in the OSI model(for those that dont know.. this is basically everything about network and how it works). If you can ping a computer or a website then the network is up and working.. just for some reason its not letting you through the upper layers, You could also run a trace and see where your connection is stopping. If you cant ping a website or another computer then try to ping the router itself. If that dont work then just for kicks ping 127.0.0.1 and see what you get.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Steve
i used to have the same thing with gamespy, stopped using gamespy :/

Only gaming I'm doing nowadays is the mind ones.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Jckl
are you able to ping any other computer or website when it takes the network down?ping operates at a lower level in the OSI model(for those that dont know.. this is basically everything about network and how it works). If you can ping a computer or a website then the network is up and working.. just for some reason its not letting you through the upper layers, You could also run a trace and see where your connection is stopping. If you cant ping a website or another computer then try to ping the router itself. If that dont work then just for kicks ping 127.0.0.1 and see what you get.

Ping not working either. Interesting.

[Jckl]

try to ping from another computer.