cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27 | FAIL
My friend is in NZ. His ping rate is atleast 400ms at best. Can this speed up the latency it takes in the hops from NZ to Thailand, to japan, to hawaii, to US...to ... me? No.
I say its fail.
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MalibuMaxx
join:2007-02-06
Chesterton, IN
 ·Comcast
| Krazy people
I know the first one was expensive havent looked at their latest offerings but lag usually occurs in the cloud not at your computer... I could see it helpping a little because of offloading the processing and memory to a dedicated card but kill lag... hardly |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs: | Once the connection leaves your modem.....
The card will do -0- as far as latency.... |
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Araiden
join:2008-04-12
1 edit | reply to MalibuMaxx
Re: Krazy people
Hopefully no one will buy this thing actually thinking it will help. I can't believe someone came up with it and decided to spend money creating it when it obviously isn't going to work, and hopefully people are smart enough not to buy it. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | LOL
So Monster Cable got into the NIC business?
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | Processor/Memory
400Mhz processor and 64MB or RAM? How on earth did my college computer with 1/2 that speed and that much memory ever run an entire operating system... |
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cob_
1310nm Of Goodness
Premium
join:2003-07-08
Tulsa, OK | reply to cableties
Re: FAIL
Yes.
Bigfoot has mastered time dilation, and given it to you on a $100 NIC. |
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Vathral
Premium
join:2002-08-26
New York, NY
clubs: | A Challenger has appeared...
Think the NIC is an expensive gimmick? How about....
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14999012 |
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cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27 | reply to pnh102
Re: LOL
LOL!  |
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beerbum
Premium
join:2000-05-06
Reading, PA
clubs:
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Re: Krazy people
said by MalibuMaxx  :I know the first one was expensive havent looked at their latest offerings but lag usually occurs in the cloud not at your computer... I could see it helpping a little because of offloading the processing and memory to a dedicated card but kill lag... hardly there are many reasonably priced NICs in the marketplace which you can set to offload processing to its own processor.. I have two RealTek and one SMC NIC that has that feature - all sell for around $20..
a few months ago I got to try out Nvidia's "high performance" ethernet card.. I think it was supposed to retail at around $250.. they have a thing that you can test and use the thing for two weeks then write a review and send the hardware off to the next person on the list..
needless to say I doubt I'll be asked to test/review any more - I send the NIC back with a note telling them it's nothing but a feel good rip-off.. ya know who cares if the card can do 400 Mbit/sec when your Internet connection maxes out at 12-14 Mbit..
as others have said, they do nothing for the average user and a waste of money - I thought maybe it's for use at a LAN party where everyone connects via a hub/switch, but then there is a thing called Gigabit Ethernet which in theory is faster @ 1000 Mbit/sec.. |
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Madness
Like a flea circus at a dog show.
join:2000-01-05
Quincy, MA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Vathral
Re: A Challenger has appeared...
ROFL! Why such a large card w/ a ton of open real estate for a half-dozen electrolytic capacitors? 
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Metatron2008
join:2008-09-02
Stockbridge, GA | The gaming NIC is solely for people who game competitively.
In all honesty, ignore it. But don't bash, as they are a few thousand who can benefit. |
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX | reply to cob_
Re: FAIL
ya you didn't know that it has a built in singularity thats linked to another singularity in their data center allowing for a bypass of bad routing.
j/k |
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CrazyFingers
join:2003-10-01
Columbia, MO | reply to Metatron2008
Re: The gaming NIC is solely for people who game competitively.
Actually, if it's all the same to you, I'm going to go ahead and bash it.
Thanks.
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bentheexo
join:2009-04-09
Jacksonville, FL
·Comcast
| The Killer NIC
The reason you would want your NIC to have that much processing power and memory, is to offload the packet translation from the main processor to the NIC itself. By connecting through PCI or PCI-e and signals and such being preprocessed by the NIC your CPU will essentially setup a bypass for the data to then be transmitted to the intended output. |
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gatorkram
Spelling and Grammer impared
Premium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
clubs:
·Embarq
 ·linode
| Before it's time?
In a few more years, something like this will be welcome.
I remember when higher performance video cards were a joke too.
Didn't someone once say 640k of ram was enough?
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
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Re: The gaming NIC is solely for people who game competitively.
said by Metatron2008 :In all honesty, ignore it. But don't bash, as they are a few thousand who can benefit. And people who play professionally, they are still going too have the same routing issues everyone else has  |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
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Re: Before it's time?
said by gatorkram :In a few more years, something like this will be welcome. I remember when higher performance video cards were a joke too. Didn't someone once say 640k of ram was enough? And those area local to the machine and affect local performance, once the connection leaves the modem, even with this card, it's still not going to make 1 bit of difference as it can't control how the connection is routed and what not..... |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | It's a time machine with a "flux capacitor"! |
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koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| reply to Vathral
Re: A Challenger has appeared...
That product, and the "Killer NIC", are just more devices catering to the present-day idiot generation of "gamers". The sooner that group/genre/cesspool ceases to exist, the sooner we'll actually start seeing revolutionary changes in technology. We've seen small hints here and there that *real* advancements do exist (best examples I can think of as of late: bendable fibre and Intel's Core 2 Duo/Quad series), but they're rare these days.
Surely I'm not the only one who remembers the past 7-8 years consisting of nothing but increases in CPU clock speeds. This just in: Intel hits 1.8GHz. This just in: AMD hits 2GHz. This just in: Intel hits 2.5GHz. This just in: AMD hits 3GHz. This just in: Intel hits 3.2GHz. This just in: AMD overclocks to 8GHz with liquid cooling.
Hey wait... OVERCLOCK EVERYTHING!! (We have a few wackos over on the Linksys forum who overclock their Linksys WRT54xx routers. Yes, you read that right.)
Gaming generation: DIE.
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