Hi.
You said that you have static ip's on the blades, right?
And the rest of the network? The other computers and etc.
It may be that another device that is connected to the wifi is using the same ip as the blades.
Check all the ip's on the entire network. If you have some device that is using dynamic ip, change to static as well.
Hope it helps you.
I've checked multiple times, it's not an IP conflict.
Have you went down the vlan path yet?...
Some other ideas - have you tried running a constant ping (from the proxy system) on the pool's IP while you attempt to mine with the blades... to see if any packet loss or increased latency is being caused? Its just odd that some of the hashing gets through and some doesn't... this seems to indicate some type of packet loss or for some reason the verizon router is dropping some of the communication when the wifi is enabled. There is a chance that the communication between the switch and the proxy is having issues, but I believe you have already eliminated this by hooking the blade directly to the router and it wouldn't explain why enabling the wifi on the router causes the issue. (sorry, thinking 'out loud')
I'd also run a constant ping on some of the other machines to see what happens when the wifi is enabled, and if it effects the pings at all.
I totally agree. I've also seen where a particular wireless device has had a corrupted firmware that would essentially DDOS the system, because it would keep sending the all TCP tx request packets, even after getting an answer. It was weird, almost like a memory leak, it would accumulate requests, and just keep sending them ALL. It would start out causing moderate collisions, and then with much use at all, the whole thing would snowball, and bring the whole network down HARD (even though everything still APPEARED functional). The wireless device would still function on the network (to a point) but it completely fucked network traffic for everything else. Every time the user would turn on his laptop, it would kill his roommates' xbox live connectivity, and they all wanted to kill him badly enough that they paid me to come figure out WTF was going on.
Firmware update for his wireless card (and one for their router, just for good measure), and a reinstall of the driver, fixed everything up quite nicely, and I never got another call over that issue.
Hence the suggestion to update firmware on the router and all devices, but I guess he took it as a joke... Meh.