About your 'strongest' comment...
This is by no means far-fetched, IMO. We're all probably more accustomed to hardware being either working or non-working and are infrequently confronted with a situation of degradation or 'dying' gear.
A story from my past:
I was working in telecom - PC-based voice systems. We had an installation where we could plug a regular telephone into a jack and all was well, but when we plugged into the PC it couldn't 'see' the line. Checked with different ports, another PC, none could see the line but dang it, a set plugged in directly would work fine.
We finally got around to testing the loop resistance and it was just outside of spec. The phone set was more 'tolerant' and the PC-boards were by-the-book.
So the idea that different gear may be stronger or more tolerant is not off-the-wall at all.
Thanks for letting us know how it all turned out.
scott; canada
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What if the Windows machine has the "strongest" NIC(I don't know what that means, but humor me)? It would drop no packets. Let's say the laptop is not as "strong" as the Win98 box, but better than the LEAF boxes (which use identical NICs, btw). The laptop therefore drops 2% to 50%, and the DachBoxen rarely lose fewer than 50%. That would also explain why the problem has been steadily worsening for the past month.
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