🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:43:37 GMT, "Derek"
<del.wattsnospambaby@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>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 

The Killer nic has been reviewed bunches of times.  Most reviewers say
the slight improvement in pings (due to offloading the network stack
to the nic's onboard processor) is not worth the price.  

BTW, the version with the heat sink is a bit of a ripoff.  Newegg has
both versions listed here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=killer+nic

There's a US $100 difference in price!