I'm gonna let this one simmer for a day or two and see if someone with specific experience answers you or not.

In the meantime, my suggestion is to chase that UTP demon. We all know what TCP's job is and UTP doesn't have the same responsibility.

The other thing to worry about, of course, is what you pushed across on your bench test versus what's really going on in this customer's LAN. I know you're not gonna belive this, but I had a customer called Robertson's Ready-Mix that still had old Windows 95 machines on their network that were broadcasting IPX packets. And this was only like five years ago!

I'd play with dips for a minute and then put WhatsUp Gold or other sniffer in promiscuous mode and find out what the traffic looks like.


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