Well, i found the problem. I had a buggy Linksys 4 port switch that kept losing connectivity/packets while connected and i removed it and just gave my laptop a static IP address, the Linkstation a static IP address, and then connected them both into another old switch i had laying around. Super fast file transfers of .AVI files over 700 MB each. For a test, i even set the linkStation to enable FTP and i used a free program called FileZilla to FTP my files into it. Very nice. Now i am going to go out and buy another one to store all my music and movies.