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  1. There's another name for such a device by jdb2 · · Score: 4, Informative · on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps

    It's called the "Killer NIC". It's a PCI Express network card which offloads network packet processing to a custom embedded Linux distro running on a 400MHz ARM processor with 256MB of RAM, and oh, it works with Vista. As it's independent of the main CPU, it can run applications, such as a bittorrent client, while the main CPU attends to other tasks while still acting as a NIC for the main CPU even if one of the on-board applications is also network oriented -- they call this "Flexible Network Architecture" or "FNA apps." Oh, and did I mention that it has a USB port for storage of such applications and any associated data ( such as files downloaded via Bittorent ) on a USB flash drive?

    Another "great innovation" from Microsoft.

    jdb2

  2. There's another name for such a device by jdb2 · · Score: 4, Informative · on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps

    It's called the "Killer NIC". It's a PCI Express network card which offloads network packet processing to a custom embedded Linux distro running on a 400MHz ARM processor with 256MB of RAM, and oh, it works with Vista. As it's independent of the main CPU, it can run applications, such as a bittorrent client, while the main CPU attends to other tasks while still acting as a NIC for the main CPU even if one of the on-board applications is also network oriented -- they call this "Flexible Network Architecture" or "FNA apps." Oh, and did I mention that it has a USB port for storage of such applications and any associated data ( such as files downloaded via Bittorent ) on a USB flash drive?

    Another "great innovation" from Microsoft.

    jdb2

  3. Re:don't skimp by AllNicksTaken · · Score: 1 · on Current Recommendations For a Home File Server?

    I think it's a joke making fun of the killer nic. http://www.killernic.com/

  4. Re:moisture in your hand... by AVee · · Score: 1 · on Device Reduces Stress While Gaming

    "In other words, whenever your palm gets sweaty, you're stressed. And I'm supposed tu buy an expensive device to tell me that?"

    Yes, you're a gamer, you sole existence depends on buying overpriced pointless hardware. You ego depends in the price of your 'rig', so expensive is good.
    Go, buy it, it will work even better when combined with a killer nic. You do have one of those do you?

    Besides, there is has Pod and a lower case i in it's name. How can it not be totally cool?

  5. Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 by LordKronos · · Score: 1 · on Building the Interplanetary Internet

    I heard the Killer NIC can lower your ping times.

  6. Re:FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Solid Capacitor Motherboards Introduced

    "It could be worse... they could be a company selling a network card to reduce network lag... lol."

    I've seen it! right here!

    Actually, I first say it HERE!

  7. Re:Why? by runderwo · · Score: 1 · on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency

    Aha: http://www.killernic.com/killer/fna.zip

  8. I think there was a related story in hardware by dieth · · Score: 1 · on Hardware Headaches Inevitable?

    The KillerNic to me sure sounds like this kind of *new* nic
    http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/KillerOverview. aspx
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/ 08/193237&tid=230

    It seems to only Offload UDP traffic instead being a full network stack.

  9. Pointless by AC-x · · Score: 4, Funny · on NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched

    Everyone knows the main bottleneck in a modern gaming PC is the network card, not the graphics card!

  10. Re:Yes. by TheBogBrushZone · · Score: 1 · on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag
    A lot of games are TCP based... World of Warcraft for example.
    Interesting then that they give World of Warcraft as the example in the 'Sneak Peek' performance statistics when compared to an onboard Marvell GigE chip known to have relatively high CPU usage. But then they also describe the piddly 10-20ms reduction in latency as 'stunning'. I don't know about others but that wouldn't make much of a dent in my 300ms ping times.
  11. Because this is so worth getting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag

    From the official stats WoW improves by 10-20ms and quake 4 by a whole 3-6ms

    http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/PDFs/KillerSnea kPeek.pdf

  12. It's really a decellerator by Jthon · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag

    Compared to existing NICs their card actually seems to slow down performance.

    If you read their white paper http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/PDFs/KillerNic_ LLR_White_Paper.pdf/ you can see that their card can generate 20.15 MegaBytes/s of throughput. From the results in their whitepaper they come out far on top, beating NVIDIA's nForce system by almost 3x the performance.

    Anandtech has an interesting comparison of ethernet performance in one of their mainboard reviews http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2696&p=11/ . Anandtech's benchmark paints a totally different story. All the chipsets featured in the whitepaper are included in this review, and as you can see, they perform significantly better than Bigfoot leads you to believe. They are all able to sustain upwards of 118 MB/s of performance (divide the benchmark results by 8 for MegaBytes). While I know it's hard to directly compare benchmarks their results are so far off that I find them very suspect.

    This new item is nothing more than Quantum Speaker Cables for PC Gamers.

  13. Sort of old by crabpeople · · Score: 1 · on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag
    These people have been making these outrageous claims for months. I thought that it must of been on slashdot before, or i would have posted it for the extreme joke level. Firingsquad had a review in july of it, and it seems to be an ongoing joke over there as well.

    Its really quite funny. My favourite "feature" from The manufacturers OWN website PDF:

    Ping Throttle: When other gamers complain that your ping is too low, adjust it a little higher untill they stop whining. Then, dial it back down and go in for the kill!

    The guy who invented it aparently got really fed up with lag and developed special "algorithms" to optimize your packets or something. The original interview is here. The inventor basically comes off as either an amazing exercise in self deception or not terribly bright. If theres even a difference between those two things. I REALLY want to see benchmarks, but it will probably just be the phantom console all over again.

    On March 22nd, we will release some of the details behind our technology. The technology is called LLR, Lag and Latency Reduction. Everyone can read more about LLR at our website on that day. In general, you've said it right, it helps to fight Lag. It does this using a custom designed Gaming Network Processor (the first of its kind) to fight all 3 of the causes of Lag (Client, Network, and Server). If I told you exactly how it worked, I'd have to kill you

    One of the interesting things is that he talks about how the game that drove his lag rage over the edge was UO, which was a really great example of crazy server lag that went unfixed for *years*. You could play on a 28.8 modem and it wasnt even THAT laggy, but everyone would mostly have world lag at the same times. But i guess this LLR tech will upgrade the servers or something. Hes a nutter. Might as well strap some magnets on the side of your nic for all the good that this will do you.