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This promotion video gives you some interesting facts why SK Gaming is happy to have Bigfoot as their partner. It points out the advantages our players get from the Killer Xeno Pro and why any gamer out there should take a closer look at the product.
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seems like the letter-symbol "K" of that "Killer Pro" netcard, as you can see taking a look at http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/assets/Products/new-xeno-pro-header3.jpg
1) "Gigabit ethernet". It only _connects_ at 1 gigabit speed. When you try to transfer a file over the network the real speed wouldn't be more than 7-9 Mb/s (less than 100Mbit/s). This is not a bug, this is how manufacturer originally developed the card and this is admitted on official forum.
2) "USB port for Torrent and FTP storage". Physically the port presents on the device but the problem is - it cannot be used since drivers (of any version for any OS) do not support it. It's unclear when the functionality will be supported.
3) "Hardware firewall". In current drivers' version it's just a simplest filtering application. Techincally you can call it "firewall" but in fact it isn't.
4) "Hardware accelerated voice chat". The acceleration only works for Teamspeak 1.0 and their own Xeno Chat. You cannot use benefits of the card if you're using any other application (like Ventrilo or ever Teamspeak 2). In-game voice chats are not supported as well.
5) "Better Internet tools on an embedded Linux platform". The card is running Linux on PowerPC processor so technically this is true - there are such tools. But they are unavailable for you since you don't have access to the embedded system.
Drivers:
1) There are no Windows 7 drivers. There are Vista onces and they somehow work under Win7 but my system several times gone to BSOD when using network. Couple of times this happen under Vista.
2) Windows XP 64-bit is not supported at all. This is not stated in specification but there is a nice stiker on the box.
I've tried this card in real games (Battlefield, WoW, CS) - didn't mention any latency improvement. May be this is because of connecting to Internet via a router (they slow down traffic a bit), but anyway I'm not ready to disconnect my whole home network from the internet. I suggest most of people have the similar situation at home.
If you like this device read the manufacturer's forum first - you'll find a lot of feedbacks there (both positive and negative). After a week of testing I decided to return the card back to the store. It definitly doesn't worth its price: $30-$40 could be a price but not more.
Btw, I have two more products of EVGA: video card and mother board. They both just perfect. It was a great surprise for me with this network card." (c) Amazon.com review