Apple Mail causes Westell 6100F modem to "lock up"

Basic info: Mac Mini, Snow Leopard, all updates applied, Verizon DSL, Westell 6100F DSL modem, Linksys WRT300N router. Connected to rouste by CAT 5 cable. Using Mail with Gmail.
Recently when I start Mail, the DSL modem's Data light blinks very rapidly and no other app or user can access the Internet. This includes my wife's laptop and our cell phones. We're rural and have a Verizon "booster" to have a Cell signal in our valley.
When I quit Mail, peace is restored.
I've not changed Mail settings since I installed Snow Leopard and opened a Gmail acct.
As I write this, I'm beginning to wonder whether the culpret is not Mail but some other program that is sparring with Mail. I've been focussing all of my efforts on Mail. Reinstalled it. Restarted modem, router, Mac in various combinations, no joy. I can read Gmail with Safari. Not as nice a Mail, but works for now.

Not sure if the video card is causing the lockups in Second Life on my machine - although the graphics did wonk out horribly (ironic for an online game based on key components of openGL/java/quicktime).
Latest release seems to be pretty stable - but that's relative, could run 6 hours straight one day without a glitch with excess ram allocated, unrestricted draw distance/select, all the things LL said don't do, then next day set it to recommended and it was freeze city...
Can't really get into a blame game cuz I had many friends on Second Life with different configurations.. macbook pros (Nvidia) to iMacs (ATI), from FiOS to DSL to Cable of different service quality (some on airport, some on brand x, some direct network connected (cabled)).. they could hang in there for hours - they might crash from a lost connection - I rarely ever got the chance to crash - would hard freeze the whole iMac, requiring a restart.
It may get ironed out eventually... I may try other configurations as well (switch to cable from DSL), I already know XP works (better) on other boxes - might try dual boot on the iMac... or I might just write it off as a loss and do an "I'm a mac - and I'm a PC" commercial in the path of an oncoming steamroller.
If it's of any "help" I did learn that 2wire DSL gateways are (were?) very problematic with the LL Mac viewer...(with Mac in general).

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Mac Mail att htm issue in outlook
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I'm using mac original mail software. I did set my HTML style template. The software is best ever.
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