100 mode saved me once when I really really really needed to have a connection in that moment, but the ethernet cable glued to the wall that I was using had only three out of eight wires even functioning.
The cable was chewed through by cats, so perhaps it was three just in that moment.
The connection was overall unreliable, so I guess it must have been four, just not all of the time.
Ah, the old Cat-3 cable. Been there.