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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-stkh.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question: UTP Network Card - ISA v's PCI Date: 03 Oct 1996 21:13:25 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 13 Message-ID: <531a9l$p72@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <nigel.206.00136DC5@4kz.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: aun.uninett.no In-reply-to: nigel@4kz.com.au's message of Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:25:35 [Nigel Gorry] | I have a P120 running FreeBSD as a Web server and I was wondering if a PCI | network card would increase the speed with which clients recieve pages. | I currently have a 16-bit ISA NE2000 Compatible. A PCI based card of the busmastering type will make the CPU do less work, since it doesn't have to move the data using PIO. Thus you'll have more CPU resources available for other work. However, unless your CPU is very heavily loaded you probably won't see much increase in network speed. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no (A satisfied user of 21x40 based cards *and* NE2000 clones :-)