Their PPC ethernet cards had so much wasted potential too. I still have one. They could have offloaded so much stuff. I still like plugging it into my computer to see I have a "PowerPC Processor" listed in device manager.
But yeah, too many broken promises and unreliable software has led me to actively avoid Killer when I'm shopping.
Every interaction I've ever had with Killer NICs has been horrible. Buggy drivers, buggy additional apps if you want to "take advantage" of the features. The features themselves work by heavily limiting bandwidth. Good luck Twitch streaming while using these features. The features only help if you're the only device on the network.
The CPU usage during file transfers is horrendous. Killer NIC uses about 70% cpu on a quad core Skylake and 40,000 interrupts per second and can barely break 900Mb/s. Installed an Intel NIC and interrupts dropped down to around 1,000/sec without tweaking settings, and CPU was below 1%. Enable some DMA coalescing and interrupt moderation, usage dropped into fractional percentages.
Or you could buy a dual port 10gbe card for 20-40$ or a single port 40gb infiniband card for 30$. Heck if you buy dual port cards you don't even need a switch to connect 2-3 PCs. 20gb infiniband switches can be picked up pretty cheap now and support fiber connectivity making them pretty easy to wire up (the older 10gb stuff tended to use very thick very annoying cables). And fiber cable is actually pretty cheap now.
if you have thunderbolt stuff: just use thunderbolt cables. Even 5 + year old TB1 cables manage 10Gbps. Ethernet over Thunderbolt works great. Now with TB3/cheaper cables, you can get way faster speed than any ethernet.
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jeremyshaw - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
Do you know who actually makes this package/IC/PHY? AFAIK, Killer no longer has any HW teams, after their PPC ethernet cards were discontinued.goatfajitas - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
No, but no-one makes thier own stuff anymore. It's likely one of the big contract manufacturers, flextronics, inventec, foxconn, etc.jeremyshaw - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
I was thinking Intel or Qualcomm.siuol11 - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
Probably Realtek, they are what Killer has been using in the 2500.takeshi7 - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
Their PPC ethernet cards had so much wasted potential too. I still have one. They could have offloaded so much stuff. I still like plugging it into my computer to see I have a "PowerPC Processor" listed in device manager.But yeah, too many broken promises and unreliable software has led me to actively avoid Killer when I'm shopping.
romrunning - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
If you really wanted me to think you have a "killer" (amazing) networking product, you should support 5GbE & 10GbE as well.bcronce - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
Every interaction I've ever had with Killer NICs has been horrible. Buggy drivers, buggy additional apps if you want to "take advantage" of the features. The features themselves work by heavily limiting bandwidth. Good luck Twitch streaming while using these features. The features only help if you're the only device on the network.The CPU usage during file transfers is horrendous. Killer NIC uses about 70% cpu on a quad core Skylake and 40,000 interrupts per second and can barely break 900Mb/s. Installed an Intel NIC and interrupts dropped down to around 1,000/sec without tweaking settings, and CPU was below 1%. Enable some DMA coalescing and interrupt moderation, usage dropped into fractional percentages.
brunis.dk - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
If there was ever a pointless product, this is it!Bp_968 - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link
Or you could buy a dual port 10gbe card for 20-40$ or a single port 40gb infiniband card for 30$. Heck if you buy dual port cards you don't even need a switch to connect 2-3 PCs. 20gb infiniband switches can be picked up pretty cheap now and support fiber connectivity making them pretty easy to wire up (the older 10gb stuff tended to use very thick very annoying cables). And fiber cable is actually pretty cheap now.shompa - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link
if you have thunderbolt stuff: just use thunderbolt cables. Even 5 + year old TB1 cables manage 10Gbps. Ethernet over Thunderbolt works great. Now with TB3/cheaper cables, you can get way faster speed than any ethernet.CaedenV - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link
Meanwhile I am moving my data from my old NAS to a new NAS... 1gbps is soooo sloooooow. Bring on the faster home grade equipment already!mjz_5 - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link
What about affordable 2.5 switches??mynetgear - Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - link
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