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Wireshark is a very powerful piece of software and it's ability to track down issues as down to user and external equipment.

At basic level (I think by default) wireshark will flag erroneous packets in red. So if you get lots of those, network looks suspect. wifi will do this when marginal.

At more complex level, you can run two wireshark captures on different ends of a network, and get it to check that what goes in on one end comes out of the other within specic time constraints. But to do that, you need to be able to monitor ports at either side. Can't remember if your switches can do that. This allows you to check for dropped packets.

Sticking Control:Mac/PC on same port as audio endpoint and comparing captures should however tell you whether network is transparent or not. It will also give a basic indication if your randomly dropping packets. If you do find issues, then joining Sooloos core and Control:XX only by crossover network cable will tell you if it's Sooloos fault or network issue.