Now i have seen everything.

It's all well and good having a fancy performance network card, but if your connection is unstable, varying pings and all that which isn't anything to do with your own hardware, thent it's wasted
 
Wouldn't a gamer's router be better? I might actually buy one of those if it made a difference to your SNR/ping/download speed, but I doubt a "Gamer's Nic" could beat <1ms ping times from a normal NIC.
 
Nickg said:
kinda like those "gaming" modems that did 56k in HARDWARE mode for ULTIMATE FPS!!!! those years ago?

they sold quite well - who knows?
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The 3com one was a hardware router, which was rare because everyone else was pumping out winmodems that we're the crappy.

I think peformance wise it will be this...

Proper NIC > Killernic > onboard > Nforce onboard
 
I use onboard nForce 4 LAN for my internet connection, and an ethernet cable that's so twisted, kinked, and bent that it's developing slits in the outer layer.

I get 18ms ping in Battlefield 2.
 
Nickg said:
kinda like those "gaming" modems that did 56k in HARDWARE mode for ULTIMATE FPS!!!! those years ago?

they sold quite well - who knows?
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My software modem dropped the connection if I did anything CPU intensive (e.g. trying to download in the background when playing C&C Generals was not possible) but hardware was fine.

Can't quite see the point of a fancy LAN card though...
 
Hardware modems differfrom software ones however in that they typically give lower pings in addition to lower cpu utilisation. It's one of the reasons why I stuck with my ISA Pace 56k (only modem I know of capable of sub-90ms) as most PCI variants tended to be winmodems. When I upgraded to a P3 I actually based my motherboard selection partly on the necessity for it to have an ISA slot.

As for these gaming NICs, I don't really see what the point is. All decent NICs have <1ms ping, and cpu utilisation isn't too bad either, certainly not enough to affect games greatly. I bet my ancient Intel 10/100+ Pro management adapter performs just as well if not better than this new thing.
 
Úlfhednar said:
I use onboard nForce 4 LAN for my internet connection, and an ethernet cable that's so twisted, kinked, and bent that it's developing slits in the outer layer.

I get 18ms ping in Battlefield 2.
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Just think, buy this NIC and you may get 15ms ;) :p
 
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But you'll still be plugging into a bog standard ethernet port on your router, i can't believe that it's a serious item, and if it is, that anyone with any sense would buy one.
 
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