| Features While the Killer NIC is expensive, you do get some nice features that use the card's processor:
- Hardware firewall.
- Hardware bandwidth limiter.
- Hardware Bit Torrent client.
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Billings, MT | You wanna know why? It contains a tiny custom Linux distro on it.
Why not just build a better router, install a custom Linux or *BSD distro, and tweak the hell out of it? |
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| said by Simba7:You wanna know why? It contains a tiny custom Linux distro on it. Why not just build a better router, install a custom Linux or *BSD distro, and tweak the hell out of it? That's another device with another wall power plug that takes up additional space. I'm not justifying the price of the card, but it does do more than just get you online.
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| said by Ctrl Alt Del:said by Simba7:You wanna know why? It contains a tiny custom Linux distro on it. Why not just build a better router, install a custom Linux or *BSD distro, and tweak the hell out of it? That's another device with another wall power plug that takes up additional space. I'm not justifying the price of the card, but it does do more than just get you online. If I had money to blow, I'd consider one. It'd be more for the external processing and stuff. It sounds like I could run my chat program directly on that rather than on the PC, which means I could get rid of the second sound card I have too. |
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said by Ctrl Alt Del:That's another device with another wall power plug that takes up additional space. I'm not justifying the price of the card, but it does do more than just get you online. Not really. Sure, a small tower sitting in the corner of that unused space in your closet *might* be taking up room, but it can do alot more than be just a router.
I actually have 7 network cards in mine and it runs more than any ordinary router. It doesn't use that much juice and it's in my server rack in the basement.
My parents and inlaws have a small K6/233 running Gentoo in their house to do all their stuff. It's a router/server/filter/proxy/vpn, pretty much does it all.. and it handles it perfectly.
Unless you're utilizing a high-end router and/or switch, this card isn't going to do jack for your internet connection. You also have to take your ISP into consideration. If your connection sucks, buying this network card isn't going to help.
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