Gadgetory

so Bigfoot networks besides releasing a new killer nic over the last couple days also released an update to the killer zeno pro so they've given their whole new software suite to existing zeno pro user so i just wanted to take a quick look at what they've enabled on the xeno pro so you can see that it's sudden it's got a far more complicated console now and okay we've got a PC monitor where it shows me the I oh yeah I can view any number of things I can view pings I can view help how much of my processor is being used so right now I'm actually rendering video so it's pegged at around forty forty-five percent which is because windows live movie maker can only use up to i believe it's off or threads and this is a 12 thread cpu i can see how much of my networking processing unit is being used right now very very little I can also check my internet bandwidth regular and offloaded bandwidth whatever that means i am not entirely sure okay i can see my current system memory usage which is pegged at about thirty percent and then i can see my career frames per second which would only be valid if you're doing something that actually measures frames per second in this case probably rendering video yeah you can see I got fraps go in there as well okay and then what else do we got ping okay we already showed that okay i'll get to that one after then we've got network so you can manually set the stats for your network on this case you're having trouble seeing it because those boxes are weighted on my camera's being stupid let's see if it'll focus for me here come on you can do it you can do it I wonder if it'll let me manually adjust the exposure here bear with me I'm sorry about this yeah there we go okay okay so there we go so I've set it to 40 kilo bytes per second upload and one thousand eight hundred kilobytes per second download so you can actually this is kind of cool because by default it was set so that you had to do it in bits and I was like yeah I don't really know what my connection is in bits so if you go into advanced you can actually set all of the bandwidth units as well as you enable or disable things like the LED glow on the card the default priority for applications and then this this is the cool one ok so this feature is a lifesaver for me because I have more than one pc on the home network and whenever I upload YouTube videos so I'm rien coding one right now and I'm also uploading another one about my cats whenever I upload YouTube videos it just kills my network and I'm too much of a network noob to figure out how to set up quality of service on my router so here's what I've done instead I can use this application to manually set how much upload bandwidth I want to Firefox to have access to so I can just drag the slider one way or another and I can say okay max up to 25 kilobytes per second max up to 30 kilobytes per second which is kind of a happy medium it gives me a decent upload speed and it also makes it so that all the other computers on my network don't have that really really slow speed that you get when you have your upload completely saturated so that's pretty cool and then you can set all of your other applications in terms of I believe you can set priority as well yep so there you've got your priority settings here you've got whatever allow and block is oh yeah I guess you can block and allow it and then you can set how much bandwidth they have access to very cool feature and i'll also be having a look at the new killer 2100 as well in the next little while so look forward to that but in the meantime all zeno pro owners do have access to this new application very very cool