🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been having serious problems with my connection since before 
christmas with enormous packet loss >35% and ping spiking into the 
stratosphere I'm working with the ISP Virgin Media to resolve it and due a 
3rd tech visit this week  so if I've slid past you at any point sorry but I 
can't help it.
Anyway in the course of testing the tech supp thought it could be a problem 
at my end  so I fitted a new cable modem which proved even worse then I 
started to question my computer its way more than capable of running UT at 
Hi settings with a gig of pc3200 ram an Athlon XP 3200+ and a geforce 5900xt 
it hits FR better than 100fps so its not struggling maybe the NIC ?   well 
not really its a gigabit connected to a 4 meg cable modem so it should fly 
the second NIC is a 10/100 to connect herself to the net ( peer to peer) 
maybe I should stop being stingy and spring for another gigabit so the Lan 
is running faster then I saw a horrendously expensive accelerated NIC with 
its own onboard processor that offloads the networking form the CPU.
Question: would you really spend this much to gain a slight edge gaming ?
( provided of course you are not Fatal1ty  Johnathon Wendel )
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(24576)KillerNIC-M1-online-gaming-network-accelerator.aspx

like the heat sink tho very UT

Nick-Dastardly