OK, with the Cabletron in line and on port 1 of the 3com, I can sync with the Empeg. About 5-20 collisions reported, and 1-8 errors. With the Empeg straight to the 3com, Emplode never finds the unit. After about 5min there is about 3000 collisions and maybe one error reported on that port.

Now to try 10 Full Duplex, It actually finds the Empeg now. We are making progress. But it fails everytime while on the "Retrieving Database" task, with a connection timed out. The switch reports no collisions, but about 25 errors.

I have searched the 3com site as well and have updated to the lastest 3.23 version in the switch.

Now what do you think?