HI Guys im trying to get HD stuff to stream and its jerky as hell so, in order to rule out the network I dropped back to a x-over ethernet cable with the server direct to a device (I tried a laptop and a HD media player). However, this was still jerky. So, next step, I put a free FTP server on the server and then tried to connect via FTP and copy over the file. The best I could get was 11meg a second. For the life of me, in my simple view of things, all seems good so, I thought i'd ask the experts for tips. Please take a quick look at the specs below and see if you can see why I'm only getting 11meg and im open to suggestions! Desktop(Ftp server)->x-over->Laptop(Ftp client) = 11meg a second Desktop(Ftp server)->homeplug(bedroom)->Laptop(Ftp client) = 4meg a second Ouch. So none of these are particuly good considering the direct connection with nothing in the middle. The PC's specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @3.00 Ram 4gb Vista Home Premium 64 Boot disks SATA1: 2xWD Raptors (stripe) Storage SATA2: 2x Hitachi 1TB disks (stripe) Important bit?: Generic Marvell Yukon 88E8056 Ethernet Controller Settings below, any ideas? [*]Flow control - TX/RX Enabled [*]Interrupt Moderation - Enabled [*]IPv4 Checksum Rx Enabled [*]Jumbo Packet - 1514 (smallest option, cant disable) [*]Large Send Offload (IPv4) - Disabled [*]Max IRQ per sec - 10,000 [*]Priority & VLAN - Priority and VLAN Disabled [*]Receive Buffers - 512 [*]Speed & Duplex - Auto-Negotiation (tried forcing 100/full) [*]TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) - Tx & Rx Enabled [*]Transmit Buffers - 256 [*]UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4) - Tx & Rx Enabled The devices connect at 100meg but I can't see where to see if this is Full duplex or not. So, any ideas? I'm really struggling.... and very confused. Thanks in advance! this is my sig

Well first off - Have you tried updating the driver to fix? Did a driver from Windows update get installed (tried rolling back if thats the case to original driver) that could be causing this. 2. You have a gigabit NIC on the desktop, do you have one of the laptop as well? - A gigabit switch would give you up to 1000meg connection between each, since you are looking to stream HD 3.Have you tried another NIC in your PC to ensure its not a system setup issue? A USB NIC would make it testable on both a Desktop and Laptop - and also a know working cable is always good to know too. Thanks for any input.