TS crash with Raven Shield

[The Punisher]

I have 2 computers on a D-link router with a broadband connection. I use my AMD 2500 with 1GB RAM for a Raven Shield server. For my gaming computer I use an AMD64 3200 with 1.5gb RAM, ATI 9800 Pro video card, Windows XP Pro Sp2. All sound and video drivers are current. If I start Team Speak on my gaming computer, after at least an hour of playing on my server the Raven Shield game server freezes for everybody but me, I can hear people talking on TS but they can not hear me. After about 10 seconds I get a "Your connection to the server has been terminated" message and get disconnected from TS. Everybody else gets disconnected from my Raven Shield server. My Raven Shield connection is not affected. Everybody else can log back on the Raven Shield server after about 30 seconds, the TS server won't let me connect for about a minute, then logs on and works fine. This crash happens at random intervals 1 to 4 times in a 5 hour period. If I'm not using TS there is no problem with the Raven Shield server. Any ideas on what is causing this and how I can fix it would be appreciated. Thanks.

[kohlrak]

The ts server and all the people on it could be using up the spare RAM that your game server ain't using, and/or there are other programs taking up all the ram and paging? Probly somthing along that line.

[The Punisher]

I'm sorry, I didn't clarify that. The TS server is on a friend's spare computer, I'm only using TS client on my gaming computer. TS is not running on the computer with the Raven Shield server.

[kohlrak]

I never heard of such a thing. Could even be SP2. I heard that thing's so unpredictable it's pathetic. The question is now, what all is on the raven server? Could there be a conflict with the 2 servers? Could another program that you could be running and not telling us interfere? What is the OS on all the computers/servers?

[The Punisher]

The Raven Shield server is running nothing but Raven Shield on game nights, otherwise it's the wife's computer. Raven Shield is running 24/7, it's fine even when the wife is surfing the web, reading e-mail etc, no problems, no slowing and the server never crashes. Even when I have a problem with TS on my gaming machine the server stays up but everybody other than me loses the connection. The server does not go down and does not need to be restarted. The computer is an AMD 2500, 1GB RAM, running XP Pro SP2, updated drivers.
The TS server is on a friend's spare Pentium 3, XP Pro SP1. He has no problems with the server, runs fine. TS server is the only thing that computer is used for 24/7, it has not been changed in a year.
We have been playing for over a year, the problem first happened 3 or 4 months ago, while I was running SP1 on my gaming machine. I installed SP2, problem still there. Dumped RS and TS on my gaming rig, reinstalled - no change. Got a new computer for the Raven Shield server (used to be a Pentium 3) - no change. Dumped the entire hard drive on my gaming machine, clean install on everything - no change.
The only thing I can think of is that Raven Shield was patched up - happens on a regular basis - and it caused some kind of conflict with TS. I play on the server regularly and never have a problem unless I am also running TS. Is it possible that with 8-9 other players on the server and me on TS my router goes stupid and tries to push too much data through / shuts down outside connections? If so why only occasionally? Why only with TS?
Thanks for your help.

[kohlrak]

From what i've read on routers, they are not only the most confusing things, but the most unpredictable. You'll have to wait till some one who knows more information in this matter.

[m&m's]

what is the bandwith limet of the router ? if your hosting a game server and running ts is your network bandwith being hit ? that could cause your conection to drop , loseing all R-S players and ts to drop

? to you will it only do this when you have 8-9 players in or will it also do this with only 4-5 players in ?? if only at 9 players remove 1 slot from the game server you should be ok then , you could also look in to updating your routers firmware ,and retestr with 9 players again or getting a better router if you got a bottle neck at router ?

[The Punisher]

The router is a D-Link DI-624, 2.4 GHZ 108Mbps wireless router. These 2 computers are plugged into 2 of the 4 wired ports on the back. I have 3 other computers on the wireless but they are all off when the problem is happening. There is usually 8-10 of us playing the majority of the time on our game nights and that's when it crashes. I'm not sure if it's related to the number of players, TS has crashed with as few as 4 or 5 players on, I've also had up to 12 players (11+me) on with no TS crash. Since nobody here has heard of this problem I'm starting to think it's the router. I will try to upgrade the firmware, will find out Thursday if it helps.
Thanks.