[weblacky]

Did you actually read what I wrote, above? You are operating at max speed! You're getting just over 7Mb/s on a 10Mb/s port that can only do half duplex.

This machine was made when people used floppy disks that were 1.44 MB with an extra option to use a 20MB Floptical disk drive on Indy.  Documents were a few kilobytes. Images were around a megabyte on consumer devices. The networking technology of the time was to transfer these type of files in a collaborative environment. It was rarely expected that you would reload the entire machine and even then having a drive that was over 2 GB in size was never really expected back then.  Same with the indigo line of SGI computers.

Half duplex means it cannot talk and receive at the same time. It does one or the other which creates an additional bandwidth impact and slows down the process which means it will never be 10.  A full duplex device can talk and receive at the same time, a half duplex device can only do one or the other.

The only way to go faster is to actually get a rare 10/100 Mb card for the Indy that goes in a GIO32 slot.  these days they don't come up for sale very often and they are potentially hundreds of dollars.

You're basically transferring a 1.44 floppy drive worth of data every two seconds.  That's faster than the floppy drive can right to/fill-up the floppy.  So it's faster than using a sneaker net.