PCI or ISA network card?

[Phoenii]

I have two older network cards and I'm wondering which is more taxing on the old CPU, or if my connection is suffering terribly by having an ISA. I've got cable and reached about 400kbps which is plenty for me.

 

[Phoenii]

Anyone?

 

[jonmcc33]

400Kbps on what? DSL? Cable?

ISA is really old, I'd go for PCI if I were you. You might get more bandwidth between your broadband modem and NIC.

 

[circut16]

the PCI NIC is going to be the best.
As for how taxing it is on your CPU that depends on the brand of NIC

 

[Bootlog]

I think the PCI nic will be better for it requiers less cpu cycles when using it on a modern cpu and mobo(pentium 1 and up). If I remember correctly the reason why mobo manfucatorer has stopped manufacting boards with ISA slot is because it slows things down when in use.

 

[Phoenii]

Thanks for the replies all.