Bigfoot Networks Killer Xeno Pro Software Update First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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775 words · ~3 min read
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so Bigfoot networks uh besides releasing a new killer Nick over the last couple
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days also released an update to the killer Zeno Pro so they've given their
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whole new software suite to uh existing
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Zeno Pro users and I just wanted to take a quick look at uh what they've enabled
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on the Zeno Pro so you can see that it's
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uh it's got a far more complicated console now and okay we've got a PC
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monitor where it shows me the uh I yeah
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I can view any number of things I can view pings I can view how how much of my
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processor is being used so right now I'm actually rendering video so it's pegged
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at around 40 45% which is because uh
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Windows Live Movie Maker can only use up to I believe it's four threads and this
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is a 12 thread CPU uh I can see how much
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of my networking processing unit is being used right now very very little I
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can also check my internet bandwidth regular and offloaded bandwidth um
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whatever that means I am not entirely
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sure okay I can see my current system memory usage which is pegged at about
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30% and then I can see my current frames per second which would only be valid if
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you're doing something that actually measures frames per second in this case
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probably rendering video yeah you can see I got fraps going there as well okay
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and then what else do we got ping okay we already showed that okay uh I'll get
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to that one after then we've got uh Network so you can manually set the
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stats for your network uh in this case you're having trouble seeing it because
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those boxes are Whited out and my camera's being stupid let's see if it'll
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focus for me here come on you can do it
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you can do it I wonder if it'll let me manually adjust the exposure here bear
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with me I'm sorry about this yeah there we go okay there okay so there we go so
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uh I've set it to 40 kilobytes per second uh upload and uh 1,800 kilobytes
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per second download so you can actually this is kind of cool because
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uh by default it was set so that you had to do it in bits and I was like yeah I
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don't really know what my connection is in bits so if you go into advaned you
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can actually set all of the bandwidth units as well as uh you can enable or
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disable things like the LED glow on the card uh the default priority for
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applications and then this this is the cool one okay so this feature is a
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lifesaver for me because I have more than one PC on the home network and
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whenever I upload YouTube videos so I'm I'm uh re-encoding one right now and I'm
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also uploading another one about my cats whenever I upload YouTube videos it just
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kills my network and I'm too much of a network Noob to uh figure out how to set
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up quality of service on my router so here's what I've done instead I can use
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this application to manually set how
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much upload bandwidth I want to uh
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Firefox to have access to so I can just drag this slider one way or another and
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I can say okay uh Max up to 25 kilobytes
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per second Max up to 30 kilobytes per second which is kind of a happy medium
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it gives me a decent upload speed and it also makes it so that all the other
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computers on my network don't have uh that really really slow speed that you
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get when you have your upload completely saturated so that's pretty cool and then
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you can set all of your other applications in terms of um I believe
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you can set priority as well yeah so there you've got your priority settings
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here you've got uh whatever allow and block is oh yeah I guess you can block
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and allow it and then you can set how much bandwidth they have access to very
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cool feature and I'll also be having a look at the new killer 2100 as well in
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the next little while so uh look forward to that but in the meantime all Xeno Pro
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owners do have access to this new application very very cool