Time Capsule Ethernet Transfer rate very slow

Hello,
In order to transfer a 65Gb file from an iMac to TC, I decided to use the Ethernet port instead of wireless. The transfer rate is about 1-2Mbs /s instead of a regular Ethernet 100Mbs /s. It's been 4 hours so far and will probably be 7 hours when it's completed.
Facts
I turned off Airport.
I'm using an Ethernet CAT5 cable.
Why is it so slow?? Is there a setting I'm missing?
Thanks,

In the real world if you have ethernet 10/100/1000 and are using a cat 6 cable then expect no more than 11M/sec
8 M/sec if wireless N
4 M/sec if wireless B/G
Cat5 you'd use for ethernet 10/100 narrow band width.

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the router mode is greyed out.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
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Golybs wrote:
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