Silent drops, getting kicked off, connection lost...HELP!

I haven't been able to find an answer to this yet so here goes...
I log on to Ichat with no problem..then my buddies stop responding to my IMs...i sign off and come back on and they ask where i went...it does this without my knowing...i saw in another thread that i should select interface robustness in the airport menu at the top...and ive had it selected, and still nothing...
any help is appreciated!
thanks!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi ashcran25,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions
This is one of those problems that I have had on my G4/1ghz dual that does not have Airport.
having said that it is also one of those problems that once you solve it it never seems to happen again.
Unfortunately what I did escapes me at the moment.
I can tell you how my LAN is set up.
The Modem is a Netgear DG834GUK and is set to allow Static IP addresses.
The modem has DNS servers listed as does the TCP/IP tab of the mac's System Preferences > Network pane
10:24 PM Monday; June 11, 2007

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