Who's Used A Killer K1 Or Nic Gaming Ethernet Card?

[dangerman4]

Hi everyone

looking for experiences with the killer gaming ethernet cards. or even better can any of you get me one at a decent price?

cheers

[CRoNic...]

Had a write-up about them a while back in PCPP... they said it had good results but I think they're pretty pricey compared to a standard 1gbps nic?

I'll try to dig up the article.

[Madaz]

wow haven't heard of these but i imagine its more a gimmick than really anything's good

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[Cubes]

Every little bit helps especially if the machine is cpu bound which is unlikely if its a new system running a decent vid card with a 22-24" monitor.

Are you on ADSL2+?

If so Im unsure of the line profiles available for your service but if you are after all out online gaming performance drop your self on a low latency ADSL1 profile.

On such a profile with Internode their ADSL1 low latency profile pulls my ping down from ~17ms to 6-7ms when playing on an Internode server.

Selecting PPPOE/LLC as your encapsulation is technically the best choice for gaming (backhaul = ethernet frame/PPPOE) but be buggered if I can notice a difference.

For all out download speed use PPPOA as there is less overhead so less waste per packet on our lowly up to 24mbps connections.

[dangerman4]

Every little bit helps especially if the machine is cpu bound which is unlikely if its a new system running a decent vid card with a 22-24" monitor.

Are you on ADSL2+?

If so Im unsure of the line profiles available for your service but if you are after all out online gaming performance drop your self on a low latency ADSL1 profile.

On such a profile with Internode their ADSL1 low latency profile pulls my ping down from ~17ms to 6-7ms when playing on an Internode server.

Selecting PPPOE/LLC as your encapsulation is technically the best choice for gaming (backhaul = ethernet frame/PPPOE) but be buggered if I can notice a difference.

For all out download speed use PPPOA as there is less overhead so less waste per packet on our lowly up to 24mbps connections.

yep im on pppoe/llc

and my system is a intel cor 2 duo e6850

with a geforce 8800 gts

running on adls2

but im a fair way from the exchange so i only get a download of around 3mbps and on ventrillo it shows my ping as 245 on average.

im addicted to aoe3 AD so any more performance i can get would be great

thanks all

[Cubes]

If your at a fair distance lock your modem to ADSL2 only mode not ADSL2+. You will pick up a little speed.

Then try locking it down to ADSL1 and depending on line conditions speeds may increase once again.

In saying that what modem do you have?

A modem connecting in ADSL2+ at a 4km+ line length is bad you obtain slower speeds than ADSL2 or ADSL1.

Once you have achieved the best speed see if you can drop your self on a line profile that aims for an SNR of approximately 9db.

Providing line conditions, internals and filtering is good you should not get dropouts with an SNR of 9db. Unfortunately many isps will increase the SNR to bandaid a problem that really needs to be fixed.

Most ISP's initially place customers on reliability profiles which sacrifices speed and increases latency.