Well, it was entertaining to play around with this stuff for a while.
Unfortunately I never tweaked it well enough to have any meaningful data that would help with the network issue at work.

Moot point now- they laid me off today. So I don't care much now if they ever sort it out.

Many thanks to Doug for sharing his trials and tribulations from the networked netherlands.

Onwards! Into the unknown!
I wonder what happens next?