Originally Posted by MYC52002
Another oddity also, my activity monitor on the Macbook for the network says it sent 312Mb for the one CD I processed from a clean start up yet it says it received 17Mb (is that the macbook or the Sooloos that received the 17Mb?) Not sure how those numbers interact with each other but 312Mb is far larger than the CD should be. Its almost like a lot of the data being sent across the network is not being used?

Is there a way to narrow it down to the cable being the most likely issue before I have to run a new cable through the walls?

A fully lossless FLAC ripped CD (the default by Sooloos ControlMac/PC) can range from <200Mb to >600Mb (and more if they are High Resolution Audio). So 312 Mb is low but reasonable for restoring a 1 backed up Sooloos CD. It doesn't need to receive much data (because after all, it is sending a CD to Ensemble, not the other way around).

A better idea might be to bring the laptop to the same room as the other Sooloos device and hook a cheap switch up to the both of them (as well as the rest of the network). This would bypass the possible dodgy cable and hopefully speed up the restore.

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