he number of companies that CARE about LAG is growing.    It used to be just 1 (maybe 2).  I personally met with 3 companies at GDC this year about Lag.  Bigfoot Networks always at the top of the list.  Now, there are at least 4 companies that care about Lag, and my hope is that one or more of the other companies will join us here and promote the problem of Lag!  The top 4 companies fighting Lag ARE: Bigfoot Networks (with the Killer NIC), DLINK (GamerLounge), GameRail.com, and PEER 1 hosting (Latency Kills).

have recently composed a new white paper (not yet published, but will be soon) about Vista Networking performance in online games.  One of the things that shocked me was that F.E.A.R. (a known system performance hog), is just unplayable in Vista.... that is unless you have a Killer NIC.  Without Killer (which bypasses the "new" Vista stack), you can't aim, you can't move, you can't kill... i had 1/3 the kill scores without Killer than I did with.   With Killer, FEAR becomes playable in Vista.