I know, details, details, what do they matter. .77 and .177 both have two sevens!
By the way, love those Netgear switches. Went through many brands until settling on those GS series.
Just to close this out, it turns out it was the switch that was the problem, a Netgear GS316.
I could not get a 16 port switch locally, so I purchased 2 Netgear GS108 8-port switches and daisy chained them. A lot more variation in LAN transfer speed with 2 switches, but no packet loss.
I just ordered a Netgear GS116 which should arrive in a week. I will switch back in a week or two.
@eric thanks for your suggestion of using Ping Plotter, it is was helped me isolate the issue.
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