Quote Originally Posted by Skolink View Post
Have you got the network card driver 'timing' set to 'failsafe' (timing=16), 'optimal' or 'turbo' probably wouldn't cause freezing, just poor network performance.
Actually it has been known to.

As Skolink has mentioned, if you have not set the timing to "failsafe" (or edited the config file to say timing=16) then please do this first and see if that cures it.