Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: hooflung
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Wow, I didn't even know this was still around. I thought we'd ridiculed it into oblivion.
KT
Truth. I wonder how much money they're making off these things .. 10 dollar NICs sold for hundreds of dollars.
I have one of these cards. I bought it for the development and the gawk factor but it is a better NIC than the Intel Gigabit PRO adapter it replaced.
Also, you should understand a bit about what it is before saying its a 10 dollar nic. If you tried to buy the parts for it then it would probably cost you somewhere around 130 dollars. It is nothing short of a PC on a board.
The drivers are great in Vista64 and XP32, the gaming mode reduces my pings through shit BellSouth/ATT DSL in North Central Florida ( who travel to MIAMI then jump to ATLANTA ) by 20ms. Seeing how I would get crap pings to even Orlando that weren't much different than pings to Texas it was a showstopper for me in CS:S and DoD.
Its the most advanced NIC on the market for consumers. Except for the price its a great card. Not necessary for some people but I would have to go buy a Cable Modem for 80 bucks and switch to Cable to get the speeds I get of my DSL with the card which wasn't an option when I bought the card ( cable co. here was crap then ).
How does this NIC make your DSL run faster?
Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: hooflung
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Wow, I didn't even know this was still around. I thought we'd ridiculed it into oblivion.
KT
Truth. I wonder how much money they're making off these things .. 10 dollar NICs sold for hundreds of dollars.
I have one of these cards. I bought it for the development and the gawk factor but it is a better NIC than the Intel Gigabit PRO adapter it replaced.
Also, you should understand a bit about what it is before saying its a 10 dollar nic. If you tried to buy the parts for it then it would probably cost you somewhere around 130 dollars. It is nothing short of a PC on a board.
The drivers are great in Vista64 and XP32, the gaming mode reduces my pings through shit BellSouth/ATT DSL in North Central Florida ( who travel to MIAMI then jump to ATLANTA ) by 20ms. Seeing how I would get crap pings to even Orlando that weren't much different than pings to Texas it was a showstopper for me in CS:S and DoD.
Its the most advanced NIC on the market for consumers. Except for the price its a great card. Not necessary for some people but I would have to go buy a Cable Modem for 80 bucks and switch to Cable to get the speeds I get of my DSL with the card which wasn't an option when I bought the card ( cable co. here was crap then ).
How does this NIC make your DSL run faster?
Yeah, I second that question.
Originally posted by: hooflung
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Wow, I didn't even know this was still around. I thought we'd ridiculed it into oblivion.
KT
Truth. I wonder how much money they're making off these things .. 10 dollar NICs sold for hundreds of dollars.
I have one of these cards. I bought it for the development and the gawk factor but it is a better NIC than the Intel Gigabit PRO adapter it replaced.
Also, you should understand a bit about what it is before saying its a 10 dollar nic. If you tried to buy the parts for it then it would probably cost you somewhere around 130 dollars. It is nothing short of a PC on a board.
The drivers are great in Vista64 and XP32, the gaming mode reduces my pings through shit BellSouth/ATT DSL in North Central Florida ( who travel to MIAMI then jump to ATLANTA ) by 20ms. Seeing how I would get crap pings to even Orlando that weren't much different than pings to Texas it was a showstopper for me in CS:S and DoD.
Its the most advanced NIC on the market for consumers. Except for the price its a great card. Not necessary for some people but I would have to go buy a Cable Modem for 80 bucks and switch to Cable to get the speeds I get of my DSL with the card which wasn't an option when I bought the card ( cable co. here was crap then ).

 
				
		