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Does bios setup show up on hdmi if the hdmi cable is plugged in and the vga cable is disconnected from the board?

TCP does that, and TCP often uses Nagle's algorithm, but Nagle's algorithm is something else. Nagle's algorithm says don't send tiny data packets unless you peer has acked everything you sent. That ends up not being great if your peer has delayed...

It's something every "cloud" data service has discovered: Offer your users unlimited space, they'll go fucking nuts. Not most of them, but a few people will just fill it full of shit and your costs will be huge.

Switches do eliminate collisions, if everything is full duplex, and limit the scope if some ports are running at half, but it the average unmanaged switch gets a broadcast packet or a multicast packet, it's going to queue it to all ports...

The point of a switch is to not flood all packets to all ports. Broadcasts have to go everywhere by design (unless you've got vlans), some switches might do multicast stuff, but I think unmanaged switches will tend to flood those too.

You should be able to get error counts from the network card, and maybe the other end of the cable (router, switch, etc)? If there are lots of errors, try a different cable. Otherwise, yeah, putting in a new NIC is a reasonable thing to try. I'd...