It was noticeable for us because Exchange 2008 was the first M$FT product that only ran 64. That was our first 64-bit box

I wonder if we were still using hubs back then. We bought a bunch of Cabletron switches around that time

I’m still amazed that CSMA/CD works at all. We got hit with the Nimda virus in the early 2000s and our network utilization was over 50% and I’m like yup we’re going down. Once Ethernet gets bad it blows up pretty quick