I agree with Frank.

Try turning off autosensing on all equipment (except for the switch);
then set all equipment to 10-full, this should help (you wont notice a difference between 10 full and 100 half, believe me, unless you transfer gigs of data between the two pc's)

If that doesnt help, then set the individual ports to their respective speeds, 10full for the empeg, and 100full for the desktops, and set you nics to 100full in the nic's bios (the included diskettes usually have the included 3c5x9cfg.exe or something like that on the dos diskette), and the os driver win9x/NT/2K will allow for this

This should clear up and speed realted issues, but ultimatly the empeg player software and emplode need to have the error correction ripped out of the tcp-ip protocol, seeing as tcp-ip does it automagicaly (is that a word??)

Cheers

Smoker_Man
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