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Aug 28th, 2001, 02:49 PM
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PCI vs ISA
I'm working on creating a home network, and I am wondering what the difference is between ISA Ethernet cards and PCI Ethernet Cards. If you could shed some light on the subject i'd be most grateful.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 02:50 PM
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ISA is ancient technology. Get PCI, or if you don't want to open up your computer, USB.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 02:53 PM
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do you think it's worth the money to go wireless?
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Aug 28th, 2001, 02:55 PM
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Nah, unless you will add a laptop to the network later.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:03 PM
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Wireless networking is too expensive for most people. For laptops, USB file sharing things are faster and easier to use than Wireless Ethernet.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:04 PM
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PCI if you have choice.
You might not have a choice.
Have you opened your case and checked what kind of slots you have?
Older Motherboards have no PCI slots. Newer ones have no ISA slots. There were transitional boards which had both.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:07 PM
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ok, i just went on a 'tour' of my computers. one (my old 486) has isa. my newer one has pci, are the two compatable?
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:09 PM
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*shudder* A world with no PCI slots. My Dell has no ISA slots. 
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:23 PM
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Originally posted by Rh0ads
ok, i just went on a 'tour' of my computers. one (my old 486) has isa. my newer one has pci, are the two compatable?
Yes, but the 486 might not be able to run the OS to run the software to run 100Mb ethernet.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:25 PM
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:34 PM
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They're [erfectly compatible. I have 3 PCs connected together then to a Cable MOdem connection! 2 Are PCI, and 1 is ISA. PCI is just faster hardware. It doesn't really matter for networking, it only matters for stuff like a video card, or a sound card. It wont make much of a difference for a network.
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:34 PM
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Aug 28th, 2001, 03:35 PM
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Originally posted by VIP3R
They're [erfectly compatible. I have 3 PCs connected together then to a Cable MOdem connection! 2 Are PCI, and 1 is ISA. PCI is just faster hardware. It doesn't really matter for networking, it only matters for stuff like a video card, or a sound card. It wont make much of a difference for a network.
PCI also is plug-and-pray (no typo there ) and uses only one IRQ for the entire bus. ISA requires an IRQ per card! 
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Aug 29th, 2001, 01:38 AM
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Originally posted by filburt1
PCI also is plug-and-pray (no typo there ) and uses only one IRQ for the entire bus. ISA requires an IRQ per card!
you're just amazing........... even though I somewhat agree with you, but......
PCI cards have there own IRQ's, but there is a chance that they might have to share, PCI allows this better than ISA because of the northbridge. but all in all they have there own IRQ.
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Aug 29th, 2001, 01:44 AM
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Originally posted by filburt1
ISA is ancient technology. Get PCI, or if you don't want to open up your computer, USB.
you would still have to open it up if you don't have USB.
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