Waste of Money or Actual Quality?

[a1]

Found this popping around and was wondering.

http://www.killernic.com/products/default.aspx

Wouldn't the main part be Internet speed? If you have a super slow Internet connection with this fast card wouldn't it be the same as an on board port? I can't see how this would help out in connection times and all that stuff.

I have an onboard Ethernet port and works fine with very smooth speeds. Play games just fine.

I just don't see the need for anyone to have this.

[Mazza]

Nah i wouldn't get it

On board ports are fine at 100M/Bs

[Slotback]

Waste of money.

[ptrkrsh]

The only thing I've heard about this product is that it bypasses windows networking stack, I couldn't tell you if it would give you any performance gain but my friend installed one in his computer and has never had any issues with it.

[Wii]

Only if you have T1 hyperspeed internet on a usually clogged server with a sucky mobo and extreme online gamer... Waste of Money

[HarvesteR]

i can see how bypassing the networking stack would free up a few CPU cycles... but i doubt it would be enough to actually be noticeable...

about reducing lag and latency, i just don't buy it at all... latency is mostly a geographic issue, affected by your distance from the server you're logged into... and lag can be caused by either a slow connection or a crowded server... so i really don't see how a card could improve things that are that far beyond it's scope... :p

waste of money, indeed... i'd stick with my onboard lan port until sub-ether internet comes around or at least something closer to that

Cheers

HarvesteR... waiting for that sub-ether link