[Matt Devo]

Hi Matt.  My older but very reliable M004U box is running stand-alone LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.007 ALPHA and lately I have been experiencing hesitations when playing music of any format.  I've troubleshot the problem to my hardwired Ethernet connection.  If I switch to wireless it works OK.  I've swapped cables and bypassed switches all the way back to the master router and no improvement.

Not sure where the problem lies.  Is there a way for me to test the Ethernet connection into this box?  Any words of wisdom otherwise?

Thanks and apologies for thread crapping if it's not hardware related.

 there's a bug with the 4.19 (and newer) kernels that kills SMB performance over ethernet on Haswell Chromeboxes (and others?), I've been working with the LE team on it, but seems like an upstream kernel issue.  Not sure if specific to the RT81xx chip or what. I don't have any suggestions other than to use wireless, or maybe try a USB3-ethernet adapter if wifi performance is insufficient