Thanks Cube community -- anyway, I am going over a 100Mbps switch (100TX both ends with NT 4.0 Workstation opposite the Cube). On further investigation, my FTP transfer rate is a very reasonable 2MBytes/sec it's SAMBA that appears to be the culprit (the only other thing I can think of is old wiring). I'm going to install WebDAV (thanks eagle) on NT and see what happens. --GS