I have a Gigabyte k8ns motherboard with on-board LAN (NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller) and I am currently running my Ethernet / internet from a linksys BEFSR41 router to my D-Link DFE-550TX FAST Ethernet 10/100 Adapter. Is it true that there is any benefit to using either of them because I heard that on-board uses less power and memory sources, but a network card is faster for the internet and more reliable? So......which is better? I have a AMD Athlon 64 Processor 2800+ with 1.50 GB of RAM if that helps at all.
2007-01-31 16:16:33 · 3 answers · asked by Warren R 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I dont agree with the network card being faster! I have used cards and boards with onboard network interfaces and I have yet to see a card that performs as well as the onboard networking! Example, All of the PCs that use onboard lan connect at 2 megs faster than any of them with network cards! I have tried many cards too! I wish I could get to the bottom of this problem too!
2007-01-31 16:22:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
relies upon. Why are you not satisfied? If it extremely works and connects on your LAN then it truly is about as solid because it receives. An onboard 100Mb LAN card will be about as quickly as an upload-in 100Mb LAN card, yet an onboard 10Mb LAN is actual not as quickly as an upload-on 100Mb LAN, once you're speaking laptops, upload-in LAN card should be slower (i.e. an upload-in PCMCIA 100Mb LAN card maxed out at 4Mb in a unmarried workstation because the PCMCIA bridge grow to be very sluggish in that workstation. once you're complaining that the throughput is extremely extremely low then make sure that you already know what the sluggish element is... a 100Mb LAN on your internet router and a 2Mb link out of your router to the internet skill your LAN card will not in any respect max out surfing... yet replacing the LAN gained't help issues in any respect because it really is not the slowest element. Don'tforget LAN speeds are expressed as BITS per 2d and information is masured via residing house windows in BYTES... that are higher. 8 BITS is a BYTE yet there are community overheads besides.
2016-12-03 07:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On board LAN better, Internet is already slow and unreliable comparing to the worst kind of network adapter so your concern is a moot point.
2007-01-31 18:43:39 · answer #3 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋