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"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message 
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> 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!

I was unlikely to pay anything like that for a NIC even at US pricesand UK 
are much higher- I have a drawer full of 10/100 for the time being
  btw I am up to speed a faulty setting in the local (VM ) router supplying 
wrong signal  strength which was tripping up the CM adjusted by the tech in 
the street cabinet and I am sniping happily again.
Nick_Dastardly