Sorry that was a typo, when I checked it was actually in the 192. range, which probably did not help.
So I tried the 10.X.X.X range for the VEP port, its better but I still think I have problems.
I tried connecting toone slave direct cable and via switch, 9 instances of Kontakt with min 2 audio, 1 Midi port and it took 1 minute to connect a preloaded metaframe.
Im just a little stumped as its the sameon both slave PCs and using either the internal network card that came with the motherboard (both are Intel i7 types) and using a PCIE Intel CT Gigabit card.
Do I need to add anything to the lmhosts file?
Does anyone know how to completely reset the PC network and flush out the network cache or whatever as I am a Mac person!