THOUGHTS ON the killer wireless....

i am thinking of upgrading to killer wireless....
i have no clue how good it is, but if i connect from wifi source it will be better than standard issue wireless card that i have now??

does anybody know how gooood it is?!

 

Depends on what you have now.

The standard in some regions is the Intel 6200/6205/6250 which IMO is great and you won't see much of an upgrade (if any), but some have the dodgy Intel 1000's which aren't the best and can sometimes have issues and drop out.

The Killer card is really just some Atheros card with a Killer firmware/software, people have been able to just buy the unbranded cards and put the software on for fully working Killer cards for like $20 but i still prefer the Intel 6205/6250 tbh.

 

The Bigfoot Killer is nothing more than a glorified Atheros card with some clunky software attached.

I'm sure people will bring up some comparison tests, but most of those tests are theoretical and synthetic and not REAL world for the average, everyday user.

To put it more in perspective, think about how marketing departments work and how they came up with such a goofy name. I'm surprised they didn't call it the Death Star Ultra or Galacticus Supremus or some other silly name.

You should save your money and stick with an Intel card. The 62xx series are decent cards and should be more than enough for every day tasks.

 

So it's not worth getting, you say? Think I'll just stick with the Intel then... Thanks!

 

I must say that Killer features better file transfer speeds. I used to be on 6300 at one end and Killer 1103 on the other and wlan transfer speeds were around 60-70% of those using 2x Killer 1103. I also noticed that Killer works much better with weaker wlan signals. Intel tends to be moody about that while Killer visibly tries its best to maxim the connection's throughput and stability. People say pings in games should be better with Killer too. I cannot confirm this myself. Never measures my pings, but in general observing how Killer behaves, I wouldn't be surprised.

I say Killer 1103 is a better card than Intel 6300, indeed being an atheros chipset. That "clunky software attached" can actually make the difference as it may seem.

Edit: I just remembered: Killer 1103 works quite nicely and stable with 5Ghz N band, while Intel visibly prefers 2.4Ghz and hence tries to 'fall back' to 2.4 whenever possible and often enough acted all moody with 5Ghz. I am kinda WLAN speed freak (I like when everything works stably according to specs/as expected) and I spent a lot of time measuring signal strengths and transfer speeds, and in overall, Killer behaves much better, particularly more flexibly.

 

Average use, you won't be able to tell a difference. Just stick with an Intel WLAN, you can't go wrong with a 6000 series WLAN card, I've owned 6200,6205,6250,6300 with no issues.

 

I have Intel 6300N in my M17xR3 and a Bigfoot Killer in my new M11xR3. I'll transfer files from my NAS over wifi (Linksys E4200 5Ghz 450Mbps spectrum) and post back some results for you. My personal feeling so far is that Killer is more stable and always show 450Mbps link state whereas M17xR3 often switches to 300Mbps. Thats the only visual difference I have noticed so far. I'll do some real tests and let you all know

 

We already have a number of threads for discussing the Killer Wireless cards.

Here's one such thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/651916-intel-wifi-link-vs-killer.html

And there are lots more... Google: site:forum.notebookreview.com/alienware killer