I saw this, and laughed.

Hard time believing this will do anything to help online gaming performance.

http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/

I wonder how much money they expect people to waste on it...

"Milk was a bad choice!"

I had forgotten all about the guys behind this until you posted this thread. I recall reading about it a year ago, but back then the guys were still mucking around with getting the bigfootnetworks.com webpage going.

Ironically, for a component that is supposed to help deal with lag issues, the developer's site sure is slower than molasses.................LOL

Computer Components

Everyone is out to make a buck. I'm sure they will hook in a few suckers.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

64M of RAM...ROFL...

This is the biggest sham since the X-Fi Fatal1ty. :-)

"Milk was a bad choice!"

but wait guys, they have a team of engineers to battle the fight against Lag...lol

their site gave me a headache. And it appears they dont even have a real product, just a cheesy rendering of what its supposed to look like?

O...M...F...G...

I thought the PPU was bad enough.Now a "Network Processing Unit"?

You know you want one!

"Milk was a bad choice!"

If they were handing them out for free, then yeah why not. :)

Wouldn't spend a buck on that piece of junk.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

CRAP! Sarcasm doesn't transfer well in type. >:-(

"How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/14/bigfoot_killer_nic/

"Back in March, Harlan Beverly, Bigfoot's CEO, told TG Daily that much of the perceived lag happens because the computer is bogged down processing networking packets. Enterprise servers have worked around this problem by installing TCP offload chips or cards."

The part about enterprise level servers is correct, but that's NOT why lag happens for PC's.

The amount of traffic enterprise level servers deal with is FAR more than what your PC deals with. Even think in the case of a game server compared to the clients. The server is dealing with 20x more traffic than what your PC is dealing with when you're playing on a 20 person game server.

This NIC does nothing to correct that, nor can it do anything about time it takes packets to get from your pc to the server, or the server to your PC. It's preposterous to think this is going to do much.

Also "Parallel Tasking" NIC's (ones that offload the task of processing network traffic) have been around a long time, and you can buy one for as little as $30. Try one, and you'll see it won't do jack crap for your pings.

Too funny...

"How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"