Alienware Offering Bigfoot Wireless-N Adapters In Gaming Laptops
Alienware Offering Bigfoot Wireless-N Adapters In Gaming Laptops
Posted 07/11/2011 at 11:26am
| by Brad Chacos
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For years, if you wanted a cool looking, high-end gaming machine but didn't feel like spending dozens of DIY hours on a badass custom rig, the odds were good that you settled on an Alienware (assuming you could afford one). Now, the gaming PC field has been blown wide open, with several different vendors offering powerful, Battlefield 3-ready set-ups. If you're Alienware, how do you make yourself stand out from the crowd? By staying cutting-edge. Starting today, you can snag one of Bigfoot's "Killer" line of gaming-optimized network adapters with your new Alienware laptop.
Alienware's M18x, M17x, M14x and M11x notebooks will give users the option to upgrade to Bigfoot's Killer Wireless-N 1103 high-performance network adapter, the companies announced in a press release. The adapters offer up to 450Mbps wireless data transfer rates and Bigfoot's "Advanced Stream Detect" technology, which improves network performance by "automatically classifying and prioritizing latency-sensitive network traffic such as online games, HD video, voice and audio." That means that your Battlefield frag fests won't be interrupted by your mom's Netflix streaming. If you prefer a more hands-on approach to network shaping, Bigfoot's "Visual Bandwidth Control" lets you fine-tune bandwidth allocations for individual applications.
The truth's already out there, X-Files fans; you can find the Bigfoot-Alienware union for sale on the custom PC supplier's website starting today.
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bling581
July 12, 2011 at 10:08am
Hasn't it been proven before that these so called "gaming" network cards don't offer much improvement from a standard card, if any at all? The price for meager improvement isn't worth it.
DarkQuark
July 11, 2011 at 4:30pm
QOS on the internet is useless. The best you can hope for is that you can select which of your traffic types goes out your pipe first and possible maybe some shaping but that delays traffic. Receive QOS does not really exist since you cannot control what gets to you first. Yes routers can handle QOS my selecting what to send first but a PC can mark it for easier classification. But any PC can do that now and that is normally handled by software.
AnglicDemon00
July 11, 2011 at 1:28pm
I have to agree with these statements. QOS is normally done within the router so how can this overide that; unless you dont set it up your self, but most gamers would know how to do this already. Secondly, even it can send a single to the router at 450 Mbps, it won't do you much good if you are playing on the internet with a low download/upload speed.
igoka
July 11, 2011 at 12:35pm
I don't know in my experience play multiplayer on wireless never did any good. Not G not N. Never worked for me. If you are a competitive gamer the first step to get better performance is to get ping as low as possible. Period. You are already payed hefty price for such a laptop. Just connect god damn cable.
Slurpy
July 11, 2011 at 12:24pm
Isn't QoS controlled by the router? It seems like a broken system if a NIC can override those settings.
Aurien
July 11, 2011 at 12:11pm
Stay away from the Killer NIC brand. They don't support their products at all. Their K1 and M1 cards never even got full Vista drivers. They had abandoned development on the drivers for these cards to work on future products. That didn't stop them from selling the cards at full price though.
Irunongames
July 11, 2011 at 11:58am
Is it just me or does this seem like they are charging for a ready-to-go QOS system? I would ratehr save my money and tweak the settings in Tomato.
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