Which is better? a lan card or a built in lan?

Question

which offers a more stable and faster connection?

Answer 1

they should be both about the same but on my PC which is about 4 months old with an expensive motherboard the built in lan  corrupts the data

Answer 2

Built in because all you have to do is switch it on and it finds networks for you. Trust me i tried to figure it out when i bought my Toshiba A305-S6858 yesterday..... hope this helps

Answer 3

The only difference I've ever seen between a PCI NIC card (with no IRQ conflicts, of course) and an onboard LAN is that the system with the PCI card boots slightly faster.  Otherwise, all else seems to be equal, ping times, download speeds, and all.



I'm using three systems that share an Internet connection, combined with a Draytek Vigor2200 USB 4-port router and a USB ADSL modem ... one system with an onboard LAN, and the other two with a D-LINK NIC card. I can't tell any difference in performance between the three systems, and that includes data transfers over the LAN. I do a lot of file synchronization between the three computers, and I've never seen anything resembling slower transfers just because one system isn't using a PCI card.



Personally, I kinda like the onboard LAN.  It frees up a PCI slot, has it's own IRQ (18), and works exactly as advertised.  It's a Realtek RTL8139/810x NIC, and actually functions best with the default Windows driver, interestingly enough.  Newer drivers are larger in size, and slow down the system boot. And so, it's one of those "Don't fix it if it ain't broken" situations.

Answer 4

built in