PCI vs ISA Nic

[Hobbzilla]

Hey, I have a quick question.. I don't know much about nic's (hardware wise). If I have a 3com Etherlink III ISA card and a Kingston 110TX pci card.. which one would be better to use with speed/sys resources/etc. taken in mind. I have a 10 BaseT hub with my cable modem max@1024kb/128kb service plugged into the uplink port with 2 pc's pulling 2 ip's via DHCP (don't tell my isp!). Also, please don't tell me I'm limiting myself with the 10Mbps hub with this connection.. I don't have the LAN pc's networked together & plus.. the 10M Hub was only $7!!

~zilla

 

[spidey07]

the year is 2001, the only bus is PCI.

hehe

I'm sure someone can go on about the advantages of PCI over ISA, but for one it is a heck of a lot faster and wider bus.

 

[Sukhoi]

Well if you have a 10 Mb hub then both NICs will be running at 10 Mbps. If you have an extra ISA slot you want to use, put in the ISA NIC, but I think it'll use more resources. If you want to use less resources or don't have an ISA slot, then use the PCI NIC.

Also, you cable is less than 10 Mbps, so both NICs will be fast enough for the cable modem, AFAIK.