Reply 20 of 29, by dr_st
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Ethernet over PCI may perform better than Ethernet over USB in an old system, as USB doesn't do DMA and is CPU-bound.
USB 3.0, though, will be most likely a complete waste of time and space; even if you get it to work via the adapter, I doubt you'll get substantially higher speeds than USB 2.0.
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