On Thursday 05 June 2003 22:03, Nathaniel Sbar wrote: [Sorry for the slow reply. Our mailing list software had a problem, and was not delivering any mail for over a week. Gasp...] The transfer rate is just shy of 100Mbps. What is probably going on is that the cards are operating in some 100 Mbps compatibility mode. Try once connecting both machines to a switch (on which no other devices are connected). Possibly, the cards depend on a signal from a switch to go into Gigabit/s mode, which might not be present if you use a cross cable. Also make sure that your cross cable has all 8 wires connected. Indeed, 100 Mbps ethernet only needs 4 wires out of the 8, so it is conceivable to have "cheap" cables where only 4 are connected. Gigabit ethernet needs all 8. Regards, Alain