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Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:38 am
Subject: Re: IIsi getting AirPort through iMac
> ISA is fine for an old network, but for a 10 MBps ethernet network
> to run at its proper speed,
> you'll want to get PCI.
>
> -- Epicenter
>
>
> On 17 Dec 2002 at 18:19, Darren wrote:
>
> > I've made a 66mhz Win95 box running 2 isa nics and 2x40mb hdd's
> running
> > of 8mb of ram, hardly recommend but usable.
> > The PII in use at the moment still has a isa nic in it, I dont
> see your
> > "the ISA bus is as slow as frozen molasses on a snail's back".
By my experience, the performance of a NIC card is more dependent on the
actual card and not the slot. Most of the ISA cards I have used were
slower than PCI ones, but that was because they were 10BASE-T and the
PCI ones were 10/100. I would look for 10/100 most of all when getting a
network card.
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