The new Netgear router is in place, and it works - The N support is fast, and reliable. However, I can't get AIM to work at all - it connects and disconnects constantly, and never shows anyone as being online. I could do port forwarding of the relevant ports, but there are two problems with that:

• My IP changes whenever I switch from my office (wire) to the living room (wifi)
• What if someone else in the house (wife, daughter) wanted to use AIM?

So - anyone have any suggestions? I've got the WNR3500.

Now, the MacBook Pro complaint? It seems that it loses track of SMB network shares if the network changes (even after it gets back online). The iMac doesn't have this problem, my Windows boxes don't seem to, and even the lowly G4 based mini and my wife's white plastic MacBook deal with this issue just fine. My MBP? It seems to periodically lose its mind and require a reboot. If it were Linux, I'd just kill Samba and restart it. Is there a simple way to do the equivalent thing in OS X that I just don't know about?

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