I trieid only having the rio on the hub and it's still causing collisions.. on the computer, i tried having it automatically get an ip and manually get one.. wheni specified an ip, i used 169.254.150.229 (.230 for the rio) whtn a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 169.254.130.1
The DSL modem that's in the computer as well is internal and uses the windows dialer... This computer was the same one that I used previously to talk to the rio over ethernet so i'm not ruling out the possibility of incompatibility BUT in my mind it all goes back to the collisions...
hmmm.....
Thanks,
-Teo