http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/ Engadget Comments for Bigfoot introduces the Killer Network Interface card http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/ this gimmick.

I live in NJ and my pings to NY servers is usually less than 10. With Comcast I got around 22ms.]]>Jul 13th 2006 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
idiots]]>Jul 13th 2006 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 13th 2006 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
Otherwise, I would think the bottleneck would be the latency inherent in whatever fat pipe the owner is using to connect to the internets thingie.

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Maybe I should get one of those PCI expansion systems. The only problem is that those interfaces can slow stuff down. I think I best get another hardware accelerator to offset that problem.

Does anybody know of any hardware-based accelerators which can search the net and find other hardware-based acclerators to do the various tasks my processor would otherwise need to do???
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And I thought networking duties were offloaded to the chipset, not the processor? I doubt you'll see any measurable difference at all with a dedicated networking card.

But nice gimmick.]]>Jul 14th 2006 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
Also I have some exciting news... BIGFOOT is introducing a keyboard with faster keystroke response times!!!!

That's right no waiting around for you lagging keyboard to record each keystroke you can cut response times in half!!!!




]]>Jul 14th 2006 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/a crappy nic, like an older dlink, will use up to 20% or more of your cpu when maxed out on the network. an average nic will use about 15%, and a good nic will still use 5%. I'm not sure game data is capable of maxing out a gigabit nic, but every little bit of cpu usage is a task switch which is power away from the game right? people get dual cpu rigs just to offload system threads to a seperate cpu and dedicate as much cpu as possible to the game engine, so this product fits that user profile very well. these are guys that are eager to buy $10k Dell XPS and Alieanware systems, a $50 NIC that uses less cpu isn't going to make these people flinch.]]>Jul 14th 2006 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
If this network card gimmick is the same sort of crap, someone should really sue.]]>Jul 14th 2006 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
But anyway as others have said it's really not the NIC that is at fault with most of the latency you see in an online game. Though it may contribute to 1 or 2 ms if it is a really crappy NIC, you have far more latency issues coming up from other sources. I have 15-20ms between my cable modem at home and my ISP's gateway routers; no NIC is helping that.]]>Jul 14th 2006 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
You may have heard of this concept before, it's called "hardware acceleration".

The fact it has its own processor and memory gives it flexibility for things like, as someone above mentioned, a hardware firewall. I concur though, it is uncertain how much tangible benefit the average consumer will see. This could be a nice piece of hardware, but they're going to need to get the drivers just right. Not to mention price. It has potential, but it's going to be a hard sell, as most people won't see the need for one, and probably won't *have* the need for one.

The technophile within me is interested to see where this goes. Hardware acceleration = teh good! ]]>Jul 14th 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
It holds true that this is going to be a tough sell...]]>Jul 14th 2006 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
"If Bigfoot can raise more money, it hopes to begin selling NetBlazer by July for $300."

http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/02/news/midcaps/bizplan_fsb_1105/index.htm
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TCP offload cards have their uses; namely servers that want to be able to saturate a gigabit link. The big thing that ToE cards do is remove bandwidth from the PCI bus, which makes sense when you're serving a lot of files off disks on the same PCI bus. TCP checksum calculations aren't that complex, it's just that doing 50 million of them per second can eat up a bit of CPU. ]]>Jul 14th 2006 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
(Wake on Torrent)

How about automatic MAC address changes on-the-fly when it detects break-in attempts by the RIAA and the MPAA?
]]>Jul 14th 2006 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/For gamers every FPS (frame per second) is precious. If this card can buy even 1 or 2, at a reasonable price (or even unreasonable for some fanatics), then it is worth it. Gaming PCs do one thing, and do it really well, offloading any task to an alternate processor is a speed advantage. It is not about the network speed at all, but that does help for LAN parties.]]>Jul 14th 2006 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 14th 2006 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
Playing on the Internet means you do not have any control of the quality of service beyond your front door. Doh! This is obviously meant for people with more money than brains.]]>Jul 15th 2006 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
"The USB 2.0 port is part of Bigfoot's Flexible Network Architecture which allows developers to write applications to run on the NIC's processor."

There, Took me 30sec to find on google.]]>Jul 17th 2006 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/Jul 17th 2006 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
They posted an 8% increase in FPS and a 10ms to 20ms drop in ping. That is nothing special!]]>Aug 4th 2006 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/13/bigfoot-introduces-the-killer-network-interface-card/
Lots of misconceptions out there about what Killer is and what it does! For example, the USB port is fully acccessable and usable by the LINUX kernel of the Killer card: and users can write their own programs (or download them) that take advantage of it!

More details and answers to other questions in our FAQ Here:
http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx

And I'm always eager to answer serious questions here:
http://www.endlagnow.org/ELNForums/

Thanks, Tytus ]]>Aug 12th 2006 12:03AM