Factory setting (says it all really).

A CAD PC and a standard client used by the QC guy.

Server 08 isn't a distant memory here though 😬

I've worked at places where we repurposed old CAT3 cables for network connecting printers, desk phones, environmental sensors, etc. Rare occasions where 10Mbps works just fine. Using that to connect a PC would suck.

The phone lines repurposed as ethernet in my parents’ house also only do 100 Mb/s. I concur, so painful. I want to put a storage server there but no matter where it’s limited by awful speeds. It also means getting faster internet would be useless because it would be limited by these wires.

Buy a cheap unifi ptp bridge on ebay, speeds are fantastic and you can even put an AP at the other end of it.

As someone who grew up with 10Base2 and 10BaseT, and thought 100Mbps was amazing - it still surprises me every time I'm reminded how slow it is now. I buried a cat6 cable out to my wife's studio and due to (I assume) some grounding issues it only syncs at 100Mbps - it works for general browsing etc., but every time we try to move some data it's arggghhh.

It was fast for it's time.

I'm imagining 2 server 2008 boxes with prod DB and reporting db?

Look, that's 10 times as fast as it could have been!

I don't see the issue here, it says Fast Internet Switch. Why would it lie like that?