What's more efficient networking?

[Vioxtar]

I want to use my entity's SetupDataTables() to network a single integer in the range [0,7].

Theory suggests it'd be better to network it using 3 bits (in the form of 3 different booleans) that represent said integer in binary. But common practice suggests to just use a single integer and be done with it - which makes me wonder if loading the entity's datatables with 3 different booleans is somehow less efficient than using an integer due to some internal implementation fuckery.

I know a single integer doesnt seem like much reason for all the fuzz but I got a bunch of entities constantly networking data together, and I want to minimize loads as much as possible