Thanks Tony. What a great board this is.

Using vista x64, I finally moved the empeg off the router and hooked it directly into the second nic. I made the nick half duplex 10mbps with address 192.168.1.x mask 255.255.255.0 with no gateway and the empeg 192.168.1.y same mask no gateway.

I've never had the empeg run so well. Both 40gb and 60gb were prepared as though they were 120gb + size.

What a frustration it has been, though for now i am extremely happy!