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Jim Shankland wrote:

> ballpark 3% of the theoretical maximum capacity); the FreeBSD
> box is reporting a 20%+ collision rate!  I will now definitely
> try swapping out the SMC card.

if it is reporting collisions then it's probably not teh culprit..
it's the card that doesn't see ANY collisions thatyou should be 
worried about.