7i76E Ethernet setup

You said that I needed to set a driver option for the ethernet chip. Is this the same as disable IRQ coalescing?

Well, I received some feedback from the guy who's conversion that I've been following, he said his ping times are around a .07. Only difference that we see in the hardware is that his NUC is about three generations older than mine AND he is running debian9 in order to use probe basic. He didn't disable IRQ coalescing. Knowing what I know now( which isn't much!) if I can't get this figured out then I might do a fresh install. I'm a tool and die maker /machinist by trade, so all this software is new.

I don't think you need to change anything
I would try it as is, and if you get real time issues
lower the servo thread rate a bit

Went back out to the shop and hooked up the steppers to the cpu and I just ran through the Pncconf and basically just left all the values at default other than assigning steppers. I opened the gui and jogged the motors, I didn’t think anything was advancing, but there was slight movement in each of the axis. So thats a plus! I’m gonna go back through and adjust settings in the Wizard tomorrow and see if that speeds things up.