Getting Disconected From Internet After Snow Leopard Upgrade - Solved

I know there are many ideas on this site about this topic but i just want to share mine. I stared having problems with my internet connection after I have upgraded to Snow Leopard. I tried few suggestions from this site and from the web but nothing worked for me. I decided to backup everything and do a clean install of SL.
After I did clean install I started to re-install all my applications, my internet connection was working fine at that time until I installed Skype. As soon as Skype connects to the internet I’m back to the old problem where my internet connection would drop every few minutes. As soon as I removed Skype everything was back to normal no more dropped connections.
Hope this helps someone with the same problem

It's not Skype.....it's Growl - part of that package...

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Stan-
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