Guild partner - a sponsor...

[Eternalnight]

anyone interested in this?  This is one of my customers......they make the super steroid NIC cards AlienWare computers can have on em.....

www.bigfootnetworks.com/become-a-guild-partner

[Pincus]

This snake-oil is still around? I was doing this stuff with two DEC Tulips and a PPro. As for VoIP...if your CPU is the bottleneck, you're boned to start.

God, am I old, or just cranky.

[Bloodscream]

God, am I old, or just cranky.

Can't it be both?

[Greebo]

There is something to be said for TOE - you might say that the bandwidth usage in an MMO makes that irrelevant but then again most of these games do peg the CPU. I wouldn't object. I wouldn't pay graphics card prices for something that delivers a fraction of the benefit though.

[Pincus]

Problem is that the bottleneck in MMO isn't bandwidth, it's latency.  Sure, your TCO can help there, but if you're still CPU bound, the amount of packets pushed probably won't make a big difference. If you're pushing 5GBps....and the packets needed for it, then yea, TCO may help. There isn't enough packets being tossed around to really make that big of a difference.

But the way most people have their networks set up is a cheap $50 underpowered router pushing packets through a NAT table to another end that has *reaaaaaaly* big buffers (look! Fast downloads! Wait, that doesn't come for free?)...so all that cash to "reduce lag" is now undone by the cheap Wal-Mart router and your crappy cable company.

[Greebo]

Yeah. Unlikely to get a better latency reducer than the Leatrix Latency Fix.

And I bet the windows drivers suck.