Bigfoot network card - wireless?

Madals · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:16

Simple question, the new killer xeno pro card by bigfoot seems to have a USB port on the back of it, does this mean I could use my wireless USB adapter to put network traffic through it?

23JMZ07 · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:51

The USB port simply provides storage at the moment AFAIK. This allows you to download torrents etc straight to a flash drive and thus bypassing the Windows networking stack and any CPU overheads needed to write to the HDD.

I dont know if they have updated the ports functionality past this yet.

Madals · 4 Jul 2011 at 00:00

urg, thats a pain. Can't get a wired connection to where my PC is so have to use wireless and am trying to find ways to improve my connection - was hoping there was finally a way to use a killer network card

HangTime · 4 Jul 2011 at 00:32

Sounds like a pointless excercise to me.
If you have a bad wireless connection, plugging it into a NIC isn't going to magically make it better (even if you could do such a thing) - it would still have to go through the wireless adapter with all the inherent problems that brings.

If you genuinely can't use a wired connection and insist on using wireless then there are better ways of trying to improve the situation, such as using improved aerials, wireless repeaters etc.