[Wylug-help] Rsync is broken?

[RichardA]

> Just out of interest - did you try different cables? You said you 
> replaced the NIC, drivers and the switch, but what about the Ethernet 
> cables themselves? During my 6+ years as a sys admin, I've seen far
> too many issues caused by dodgy patch leads (including cables which I
> had just unwrapped from the packaging). Remember - you've just upped
> your network speed by a factor of 10. Is your cabling up to the job?
> Perhaps the patch was damaged somehow? I've seen people overlook this
> before, to the point where it was the last thing they tried, and it
> was the one thing which fixed the problem.

Tried again with different cables -- scp failed after 7 GB or so.

All I can think of to do is to reinstall the server OS and then try a
different PC. The symptoms don't point to any particular piece of
hardware or software so I'll change everything I haven't already
changed.