We saw the Classmate pegged at 100% cpu usage running the dashboard. We offloaded the dashboard to another PC and found out that FIRST did not provide a second Ethernet cable for a Dashboard PC. They do not allow a hub/switch to be connected between the classmate and the field. We were told that we needed to use a USB-To-Ethernet adapter (slow), we bridged the network cards together and it worked fine in the pits and on the field but the FMS refused to let us connect to it. So we had to remove the network bridge and do without for the weekend.
Whats really sad is the field switch still has a couple empty Ethernet ports and a cable would be so simple.