It appears that my Mac can crash my wireless router/gateway. Which is a piece of crap I got from someone for free, but it's still not exactly an ideal situation.
Yes, that can happen. Amusingly, it would crash a lot more wireless routers if it didn't always issue a DNS query on joining a new network for PTR 1.0.0.127.dnsbugtest.1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. Okay, maybe that doesn't amuse you, but it keeps me from crying in my beer.
What's "amusing" me right now is that running a Windows device on the same wireless network seems to alleviate the problem, presumably something to do with forcing the rate down to 11Mb (since that's all said Windows device supports).
Already doing that. It looks like it's actually high packet rate possibly combined with switching up to 54 meg that's doing it. I didn't see the problem (or at least didn't notice it) earlier this week when I'd connected my iTunes folder via SMB, either - I've since switched it to NFS. However, I need to do some more diagnosis on this before I can say anything more definitive than "doesn't happen with the Mac switched off"
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