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Originally Posted by garyparson
the usb adaptor uses the same lead as the ethernet. it's only an adaptor isn't it. surely that rules out the cable more than pointing to it?
Also the engineer used the same cable without the adaptor.
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Here's my theory... Your PC is trying to use 100Mbps, but the cable isn't good enough to support this. The USB adaptor only supports 10BaseT so the STB negotiates down and it then works OK. Try locking your Ethernet port down to 10Mbps/half-duplex.
This wasn't an issue for Pace STBs, because they don't support 100BaseT.
If it's not that, I'd say your Ethernet card is faulty.