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MalibuMaxx

join:2007-02-06
Chesterton, IN
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Krazy people

I know the first one was expensive havent looked at their latest offerings but lag usually occurs in the cloud not at your computer... I could see it helpping a little because of offloading the processing and memory to a dedicated card but kill lag... hardly

Araiden

join:2008-04-12

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Hopefully no one will buy this thing actually thinking it will help. I can't believe someone came up with it and decided to spend money creating it when it obviously isn't going to work, and hopefully people are smart enough not to buy it.


beerbum
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said by MalibuMaxx See Profile :

I know the first one was expensive havent looked at their latest offerings but lag usually occurs in the cloud not at your computer... I could see it helpping a little because of offloading the processing and memory to a dedicated card but kill lag... hardly
there are many reasonably priced NICs in the marketplace which you can set to offload processing to its own processor.. I have two RealTek and one SMC NIC that has that feature - all sell for around $20..

a few months ago I got to try out Nvidia's "high performance" ethernet card.. I think it was supposed to retail at around $250.. they have a thing that you can test and use the thing for two weeks then write a review and send the hardware off to the next person on the list..

needless to say I doubt I'll be asked to test/review any more - I send the NIC back with a note telling them it's nothing but a feel good rip-off.. ya know who cares if the card can do 400 Mbit/sec when your Internet connection maxes out at 12-14 Mbit..

as others have said, they do nothing for the average user and a waste of money - I thought maybe it's for use at a LAN party where everyone connects via a hub/switch, but then there is a thing called Gigabit Ethernet which in theory is faster @ 1000 Mbit/sec..


tmh

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said by beerbum See Profile :

as others have said, they do nothing for the average user and a waste of money - I thought maybe it's for use at a LAN party where everyone connects via a hub/switch, but then there is a thing called Gigabit Ethernet which in theory is faster @ 1000 Mbit/sec..
Not really. Throughput may be higher, but it does nothing for latency.
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