Are these download apps ?? Have you always had this issue or is this something that just started to happen? Are these on your Macbook air or on an iPhone, hard to determine from your description? Any recent changes to the device?
why do adium and gtalk keeps dropping at erratic times ? I use mac air and this happens irrespective of wifi or lan environment

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