No problems here, just some insight, or a laugh for someone. I have an old Dell Optiplex GX1/450mtbr+/300mgb ram/30gig hd/running windows 2000pro. I was trying to get hooked up to dsl through a router, and was having no luck. Had one new computer running XP hooked up to the router,and it was fine, no problems, so the router was aok. The Dell had onboard nic, and I was having no luck in getting the dsl up and running. I finally deceided to turn off the onboard dsl, and drop in a pci network card of which I had several, oh also the pci slots were ok,and it had no IRQ problems/just had the basics hooked up. I had put several different dial up modems in the pci slots, and all worked ok. Well, I tried 3 different known good newer pci network cards, all of which were recognized by windows, their drivers installed, and all were recognized in device mgr with no problems(no ! or ?)and still no dsl. Just in case, I even went to the manufactures of the cards website, and downloaded their specifc drivers for the specific card, and os, and installed them, still no dsl. Had all the different cards set up to auto recognize the isp, had dhcp enabled, followed procedures, turning off all computers, turning off dsl modem,resetting all to defaults, turning off router, and did a lot of google research in trying to troubleshoot the problem, still no luck. After 3, or 4 days of this, and a lot of my hair in the trash, I was on my way out to the trash to put the optiplex in it`s final resting place when for some reason unknown, my eyes rested upon an old P1 90mhz that I had sitting in a corner of my computer room(don`t know why I had not disposed of it). I deceided to take it apart and look at the nic in it. Well it still had one in it, an old ISA card(SMC ez card) that had a mfg date on it of 1994. I took the Optiplex apart, and wouldn`t you know it, it had ISA slots. If anything else, I am persistant, but this was going to be my last horrah on this GX1. I dropped that old ISA SMC ez card into the GX1, turned everything off that needed to be turned off/reset to defaults, hooked the GX1 up to the ethernet cable, and turned everything back on in the right order. Well I now have dsl on my GX1, and didn`t have to do anything, just turned the computer on, and vola. I couldn`t get any of the newer known good pci network cards/w correct drivers to work, but an almost 14 year old ISA card which most people threw away years ago worked, and worked without any prompting, or setting changes, you gotta love computers, just when you think you may have them somewhat figured out, guess what, you don`t. Just a thought, you might keep some of the older hardware you have, you never know when it may come in handy.

Regards
IKE(pack rat)

I have an ISA network card in my windows 98 SE computer. Back when I installed it I had trouble with some PCI ethernet cards too. I remember calling Microsoft and they couldn't fix it. The computer has a motherboard with 3 pci slots and 3 ISA slots. So I tried an old ISA bus ethernet card I got from the company I used to work for. Seemed to work good at only 10 mbps.

Then later I fried all my ISA cards when trying to put in memory. I blew out the ethernet card, a serial port card, and a sound card. Fortuneately I had a spare ISA ethernet card. A friend sent me an ISA sound card and I bought a new ISA serial port card from Gateway.

Compaq Presario SR1720NX Desktop Computer
AT&T SBC Yahoo DSL Home
Linksys Router/2 computers

"you gotta love computers, just when you think you may have them somewhat figured out, guess what, you don`t."

That's fer sure, that's fer dern sure! :-)

Was that old ISA card a 10/100? If not I wonder if it's affecting the DSL speed. I'm not sure how fast those old cards were.

I have heaps of Old ISA sound cards, Nics, IDE controllers etc. Even have a few VESA Bus cards. All of the ISA nics I have are 10Mbps. I'm not sure if any ISA nics came in the 10/100 flavor because of the limit of the ISA bus.

If I come across a PC with an ISA slot I disable the onboard sound and put in a trusty old ISA Sound blaster, I have so many of these and they still sound good!

Mattwizz3 :

Vista Home Basic
A7N8X-E Deluxe
2.2GHz Sempron
2GB DDR400
GeForce 6800Ultra

SMC ISA NICs have always worked well for me. None left now; no ISA slots. LOL

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M2

You dont need a 10/100 card for the internet, the 100 comes in to play when on a network not a simple internet connection.

DAVEINCAPS, I tend to think Beachcoffee is correct with his speed of 10 mbps because of the age of the nic, it`s a SMC Ether EZ 8416. I did some google searches to try to determine it`s speed just out of curiosity, and 10 mbps seemed to be connected with it. That computer(Optiplex GX1) although connected to another computer via router, is not being used in a networking situation between the two computers. It is only being used for the internet, and I have to say, speed wise, on the internet, it scoots right along(I used to have dial-up on the GX1 till a few days ago,if you know what I mean).

Regards
IKE