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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question: UTP Network Card - ISA v's PCI Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 09:32:43 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32562B3B.5A3D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <nigel.206.00136DC5@4kz.com.au> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Nigel Gorry wrote: > > Hi, > > 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. > > Any ideas??? > Depends. How are you connected to the Internet, and what is the bandwidth of that connection? What other loads are there on your CPU? If the connection is via your subnet, what is the overall load on that Ethernet segment? The basic question to be answered is, "Where is the slowest link between the CPU and the Internet?" It only makes sense to change the card if every other part of the connection is able to run faster than the card. This is not usually the case, in my experience. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |