I may have found the problem. Yes it appears to be topology related, also related to bad management decisions in the past. I think our analogy was he (old manager) went to Staples with $100 and brought back 10 switches. Easy to fool some buyers too, say "go to the store and buy a gigabit switch" and we get all these "gigabit" switches. Except they aren't gigabit switches, but gigabit capable. They are SMC switches capable of handling 13 clients. 12 clients plus 1 ghost server. They are actually 10/100 switches with 2 gigabit ports. So we needed to upgrade the network a little bit, but we had to drop it to do so. See, we have enough switches but they are not in the correct place. Here was the old setup: Switch 1 uses 6 connection, but has 24 ports. Switch 2 uses 2 connections, but has 16 ports. Switch 3 is a 10/100 with 16 ports, uses 13. Switch 4 has 5 ports and was still in inventory. So I went out and got that out. And did a big network rotation. So now the 6 connection uses the 16, the 2 connection uses the 5 and the 24port replaces the SMC. I swear, if it really isn't gigabit, it should say Gigabit switch on the front of it!