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Google Maps kills my wireless connection

BendiBus · 2008-03-30 10:56:27

It's becoming a regular occurance that when I'm using Google Maps my wireless connection dies. It never happens with other sites. I just need to switch the router off & on again and I'm back in business. Does this make sense to anyone and any suggestions as to how I might fix it? I've a Netgear router with the latest…

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30-03-2008 11:56am

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BendiBus

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It's becoming a regular occurance that when I'm using Google Maps my wireless connection dies. It never happens with other sites. I just need to switch the router off & on again and I'm back in business.

Does this make sense to anyone and any suggestions as to how I might fix it? I've a Netgear router with the latest firmware.

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#2 31-05-2008 7:13pm
BendiBus

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Just bumping this in case anyone has any ideas.

This issue is driving me mad as I use Google Maps a lot.

At least I've found I'm not the only person with this issue!

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-How-Do-I/browse_thread/thread/e003d41964b02a65

Edit: Turns out I didn't have the latest firmware installed despite the router telling me I did. So I've updated the firmware and we'll see what happens.

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