[Anonymoose]

You are an SGI Indy, Yes? Thats 10baseT Ethernet HALF-DUPLEX which is 10Mb/s theoretical Max MegaBITS NOT MegaBYTES.

Are you sure you're reading the units right? 

10Mbps (MegaBITS) is equal to 1.125MB/s (MegaBytes) if it was even able to do that...not really...theoretical so call it ~1MBps (MegaBYTES), if that due to lack of FULL-DUPLEX...Indy NIC cannot talk and receive at the same time!  So it's even SLOWER than a FULL-DUPLEX 10BaseT ethernet adapter!

Are you sure it's not saying 890 Kb/s? which is 7.12Mbps which is doable for a half-duplex 10Mbps NIC on the Indy!  Etherway...yeah 10/100Mb/s Indy cards a kind of rare because everyone wants one (they do come up though)...remember this was like 1993-1995, most people could only buy like have 350MB, 500MB, or rich/server 1GB drives....

The NIC is SLOW, it's meant for documents and personal files like the floppy disk was, it's faster than dial up.

You're thinking of 100Mb ethernet, this is 1/10 of that....

Geez, I just checked and it’s actually KB/sec. Could I improve this somehow?