Perhaps the first truly useful FNApp for the KillerNIC, the BIT Torrent client promises the ability to download files without effecting CPU usage or in-game connection.


Austin, Texas (PRWEB) March 20, 2007 — Bigfoot Networks, Inc., a research and development company, today introduced FN Torrent, a hardware offloaded peer-to-peer file sharing application that allows users to download files with zero impact to CPU utilization. With FN Torrent, gamers have the power to download the torrents they want without impacting their online game play.

"The introduction of FN Torrent allows gamers to benefit from the full potential of the Killer's Flexible Network Architecture (FNA)," said Harlan Beverly, co-founder and CEO of Bigfoot Networks. "While the Killer NIC makes online gaming faster and smoother, the FN Torrent enables a whole new experience for gamers who want the freedom to download unlimited files from the Internet without slowing down the other things they want to do on their PC."

While the Killer NIC makes online gaming faster and smoother, the FN Torrent enables a whole new experience for gamers who want the freedom to download unlimited files from the Internet without slowing down the other things they want to do on their PC.

The FN Torrent is an easy to use Windows®-based application that coordinates the Torrent downloader built into the Killer NIC. The user simply clicks on the torrent they want to download, and Killer does all the processing and downloading work of getting the specific file. FN Torrent adds to the growing list of programs built using Killer's FNA™ Technology, an open source development environment. Last November, Bigfoot announced FN Firewall, also developed using FNA Technology, which allows gamers to turn off their CPU burdening firewall and continue gaming with security and optimal performance.
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This release from Bigfoot Networks gives us a glimpse into the most useful feature of the Killer NIC: its ability to run applications, FN Applications, without utilizing the system CPU. In our review of the original Killer NIC we made it quite clear that Flexible Network Applications would probably be the saving grace of the could-be-considered overpriced NIC card. We will be testing this BT client sometime in the future to observe its usefulness and see if it truly has no impact on in-game connection.

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