A Gaming Network Card??

[hbomber]

What if your Network Card could make playing games more fun?

I'm trying to make a Network Card that can do just that...

Visit my survey to help us define this product.

http://www.bigfootnetworks.com

Thanks,
Harlan

 

[papasmurf]

Riiiiight
first of all a network card will RARELY do anything to affect your gaming experiance. If you are lagging while playing multiplier games I would blame your internet connection or the server. a base 10 nic should be plenty o bandwidth for most games and the much more common 10/100 nics are never the bottleneck. if your network has a lot of traffic and I mean a LOT then you should switch the whole thing to gigabit ethernet. there is nothing gigabit ethernet cannot handle. as for developing a new nic that makes gaming more fun... good luck buddy.

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[BigMac]

If you're talking about lag then I'm mostly with you, Papa. Maybe it's about some clever prediction scheme with regard to tcpip packages?

However the questionaire also covers the possibility of anti-cheating functionality (whatever it may be). Now that would be interesting, but how would it work? I'm not holding my breath on seeing this in the shop real soon, that's for sure.


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[hbomber]

Yah, so far, the anti-cheating part has been better recieved than the lag part... and that's why we use the survey...

We have several ideas on how to reduce lag... however, the most general solution (Network Acceleration), only gives a 5-10% improvement for DSL... So, anti-cheat might be our best feature, we'll see.

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[jihiggs]

yea right, anti cheat protection on a network card huh, sure rofl.

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[addiarmadar]

Make the PCB of the nic of the imageshot of your favorite PC game?

Really the NIC has nothing to do with enhancing networked gamming. Any improvements are made on a software level like edite the MTU or PST settings.

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[hbomber]

traditionally you are right.

but this card will be different... it will truly do as advertized!

(or in this case assume it will).

A little hint: among other things, the part will offload TCP and UDP processing.

 

[papasmurf]

lol aint gonna happen. people don't actually want their OWN rigs to be limited ever. and that's the only way you could ever implement that. if everyone had your nic and even then it would be hard if not impossible. I would not buy this ever.

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[BigMac]

lol aint gonna happen. people don't actually want their OWN rigs to be limited ever. and that's the only way you could ever implement that. if everyone had your nic and even then it would be hard if not impossible. I would not buy this ever.

It could be a server side forced requirement and if those servers are the best (and cheat free) out there, it might even work. But it will take some time to say the least.

The real problem is that most people do not want to pay for this separately from their games, they think it is the obligation of the software provider to make their games cheat proof (which they can't but its what people think anyways).




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[mopeygoth]

you guys are so pissimistic (and i can't spell), just don't use green PCB

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