Thanks Steve/Yair,
I am using a Mac Pro Tower, this is for a studio setup. I did some further testing and for sure my 30' Leaf cable is no good but the two 15' I have
and other 2 15' non-Leaf cables are good. The repeater I have looks like the one you have on your site, I think I'll have to order a new one as it looks to
be the problem. I never had it plugged into AC before and had no problems (does it just make it a connector if unpowered?) anyways I used some older FW 800 > 400 through a FW400 repeater I had and it's doing the trick for now. I really liked having just the 30' so I may go that route as well. Thanks again for everyone's input.