Brainiac hath wroth:

>I use a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11, and at home we use a modem (adsl)
>and and a Netgear WPN824 wireless router. Everything works just fine.

Which hardware version of the WPN824? v1 v2 or v3? They're all very
different inside.

>Then I bought my family a MacBook for christmas. (This shipped with
>Leopard installed.)
>
>The problem is that the Netgear wireless router hangs whenever you play
>web-based flash videos (i.e. YouTube) from the new MacBook. A video
>will buffer ok for about 10 seconds then the router hangs and needs to
>be restarted. Apart from this specific issue there are no other
>problems.

Duz it crash with other forms of streaming video?

Have you done a download speed test with your ISP? Is it close to the
rated download speed, or is it noticably slower? That will show if
there is any packet loss, congestion, or DSL problems.

>I have searched everywhere but haven't found anything relating this on
>the net (there are similar Flash/YouTube issues which seem to be audio
>related but that is not the problem here). I have done what I can to
>locate/solve the issue (repaired permissions, installed the latest
>Adobe Flash player, tried different browsers etc.) but nothing helps.
>And there is really no way of knowing where the problem is except that
>it must be related to the router and/or Airport (as the problem isn't
>there with a wired connection).

Sure there is a way. Diagnosis by substitution:
1. Did you try it with a different wireless laptop or computer?
2. Did you try it with a direct ethernet wired connection?
3. Can you borrow a different wireless router and see if that
magically fixes the problem?
4. If it screws up with an ethernet connection, did you try plugging
your MacBook directly into the modem, eliminating the Netgear router
completely?

>And using the same reasoning, it can't
>really be a Flash or Leopard issue either. But on the other hand the
>issue only affects the new MacBook, and the only real difference
>between this and the MBP is Leopard...

What do you mean by "only affects the new MacBook"? What other
laptops or computers have you tried, how were they connected, and what
were the results?

>But the router seems to be most likely culprit.

Check the firmware on your WPN824 and make sure it's the latest. Make
sure you use the firmware for the correct hardware mutation. I had
similar problems with a WPN824 v1 that was solved with a firmware
update:
<http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/wpn824.asp>

>I would be most grateful if anyone can shed some light on this!

A light does not shed. A cat, dog, and my balding head, sheds.

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