Re:This fix is great! (Score 1)

No, *you* are ignorant WRT ethernet operation.

Try setting one box to 10baseT, and another to 100baseTX, and then copy the famous 17 meg file. Notice the "time remaining" line... For even more fun, play with the duplex settings.

The file will (eventually) copy, but the ethernet mismatch will result in many many many collisions that will slow the file transfer to a crawl. I've seen it happen, and the first 10.2.8 update made ethernet changes on my G4 1GB DP that resulted in similar behavior. I fixed it by resetting my speed and duplex settings.