Netperf is a suite of applications which are used to test network performance across a wide variety of parameters. It is primarily a throughput test, being designed to measure how much traffic can flow through a piece of networking hardware within a given period of time, not how fast.
The TCP protocol is used by some online games such as World Of Warcraft, and several other MMO titles. TCP is also the protocol which is used for primary LAN based operations.
If you want to learn more about this test, then head over to this page where it is extensively detailed. This test will be split over several pages.
The improvements are clearly seen, with a 53Mbps improvement.
Excellent idea. I like their software, worth it for that alone.
I read about the killer desktop model here last year and bought one and I can’t do without it now. One of the best buys ever. They have the hardware finely tuned for gamers.
Shame you cant just add on into the machine. I upgrade my memory on my laptop. dont see how this would be any more difficult.
Great product! I agree with Ian I wish that I could add this on to my laptop as my current wireless card is terrible. Plugging it into a network problem fixes all of my latency problems in World of Warcraft so it has to be my card. I would totally drop this in if it were available. My wireless card is a standard mini PCI port so I don’t see why I couldn’t.