Wednesday, July 11th 2018
Supercharge Your Network - Aquantia Multi-Gig Ethernet Adapters for Gamers Now Available
Aquantia, a leader in Multi-Gigabit Ethernet, is pumping new life into networked gaming. Today the company announced the availability of a special gamer edition AQtion AQN-107 Ethernet adapter, available exclusively on Amazon for an introductory price of $89.99. The AQN-107 10Gigabit adapter takes high-speed Multi-Gig networking to the next level, and the gamer edition provides exclusive access to new Aquantia gaming prioritization software. The AQtion AQN-107 gamer edition hardware is clad in classic black and comes with both full-height and half-height powder coated black brackets for the gamer who wants a beautiful, fragging machine.
The combination of the gamer edition AQN-107 with the new Aquantia software will allow gamers to prioritize gameplay over other LAN activity. The reduction in lag and latency provides the reaction time advantage which can mean the difference between living on to play more and a "Game Over" situation. Twitch streamers, in particular, will benefit from dynamically controlling both the upload and download speeds through the prioritization interface.
About the Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107
The Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107 in classic black supports 10GBASE-T Ethernet in compliance with the IEEE 802.3an standard. It is also backward compatible with legacy cabling and Ethernet standards and supports 5GBASE-T and 2.5GBASE-T Ethernet per the IEEE 802.3bz standard. By supporting PCI Express x4 with a single RJ45 port, AQtion NICs can easily upgrade most existing tower PCs, supplanting outdated Gigabit Ethernet. It also fully utilizes the bandwidth capabilities of the latest CPUs and GPUs. Go here to learn more about the gamer edition of the AQtion AQN-107.
LK Bhupathi, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Aquantia:According to Jon Peddie Research's most recent worldwide report on pre-built and DIY gaming focused PCs - including upgrades and accessories - the market exceeded $30 billion for the first time in 2017. At the same time sales of PC games made up 28% of the overall global games market value of $116 billion. Selecting Amazon to reach this potentially lucrative market in North America was a simple choice. Amazon is responsible for 44% of all US e-commerce sales - or about 4% of all US retail sales. The most sales on Amazon - more than $8 billion - are created through the company's consumer electronics division, which includes PCs and computer components.
"We listened to feedback from the gaming community - they want easy access to high-performance Multi-Gig Ethernet hardware at competitive price points. Amazon provides us with the customer-focused approach that gamers and PC enthusiasts demand. Aquantia decided to kick off our Amazon presence with a special gaming edition of our 10G AQtion Ethernet Adapter combined with the beta version of Aquantia's prioritization software so users can tightly control latency and lag."
The combination of the gamer edition AQN-107 with the new Aquantia software will allow gamers to prioritize gameplay over other LAN activity. The reduction in lag and latency provides the reaction time advantage which can mean the difference between living on to play more and a "Game Over" situation. Twitch streamers, in particular, will benefit from dynamically controlling both the upload and download speeds through the prioritization interface.
About the Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107
The Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107 in classic black supports 10GBASE-T Ethernet in compliance with the IEEE 802.3an standard. It is also backward compatible with legacy cabling and Ethernet standards and supports 5GBASE-T and 2.5GBASE-T Ethernet per the IEEE 802.3bz standard. By supporting PCI Express x4 with a single RJ45 port, AQtion NICs can easily upgrade most existing tower PCs, supplanting outdated Gigabit Ethernet. It also fully utilizes the bandwidth capabilities of the latest CPUs and GPUs. Go here to learn more about the gamer edition of the AQtion AQN-107.
45 Comments on Supercharge Your Network - Aquantia Multi-Gig Ethernet Adapters for Gamers Now Available
If you want to speed up your internet a little, run Steve Gibson's DNS Benchmark tool and take the top rated DNS servers on it as your primary and secondary (and put those into your router).
If you want pretty speedy, and pre-filtered websites (websites scanned as malicious and blocked on the DNS end) use Quad 9 (9.9.9.9 - www.quad9.com/)
Slizzo, I can't believe you're totally ignoring anything LAN related at home. Lots of people have NAS's, workstations, etc. Plus these are backwards compatible and do can 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps and 10Gbps, etc. I'm guessing you don't do much with your computers.
Not everything is related to the speed of your internet connection when it comes to networking.
Doesn't seem like they have any "gaming" drivers though. You also pay an extra $10 to get it in black, but the upside is you get standard and low-profile brackets for that extra $10.
And no, I don't think it's a sensible idea to get this thing unless you have NAS, at least a gigabit-fast internet connection or something that really needs that much speed. Not to mention upgrading the rest of the network to take advantage of it.
Well worth imho, but obviously not everyone would see the benefit, as all your hardware needs to be fast enough to keep up with the speed of the network all of a sudden.
Because marketing departments have found they can sell anything with the name Gaming on it. And any gamer that isn't a tech ge3k will see it and in their head believe that they are gaming better on their "gaming gear" but really have no advantage over the gamer/tech ge3k that spent half on their system because they didn't buy "gaming gear".
GO MARKETING!!!! WOOHOO!
Run your noisy drives elsewhere and ssd's in your computer.
www.amazon.com/Aquantia-5-speed-Ethernet-Network-AQN-107/dp/B07B3G4S4J?th=1
www.amazon.com/dp/B072N84DG6?tag=anandtech01-20&ascsubtag=[site|anand[cat|NA[art|11598[pid|B072N84DG6|NA[bbc|manual
Just found this while trying to find more info about Aquantia.
Also, the 5Gbps verison is a bit cheaper. 5Gbps is still a decent upgrade (and backwards compatible).
Remember guys, you don't need a switch to if you want to just connect two computers together. You can absolutely use point-to-point with them. But ASUS has a cheaper 10G switch too: www.amazon.com/XG-U2008-Unmanaged-2-Port-8-Port-Gigabit/dp/B01LZMM7ZO/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1531331263&sr=1-1&keywords=ASUS+10G+switchAnyone that has more than one computer. 1Gbps is just 125 MB/s. Makes you realize how pathetic most of our internet service is (average being 25Mbps / 3.125MB/s). Even one decent newer HDD can beat that. I'm using all SSDs for my workstation, gaming rig and homelab.
I guess you could use it as a gamer that streams and stream to the NAS, that almost makes sense but again it seems like way less latency to just stream and then drop the file on the NAS after the stream is over, one added step I know but oh well not really a good enough case imo.
www.amazon.com/dp/B075Q5C3Z4/?coliid=I1QETVIIVDGGG0&colid=2NDLCM3MIHHI6&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1
Do 10Gb switches seem needless? Well how about a switch that is 8 x 1Gb + 4 x 2.5Gb? Or how about a switch that is 10 x 5Gb? There are some options now, with many on the way.
In other words, we're not going to find 10Gb switches for cheaper any time soon -- we are going to find more mixed-speed options in the future.
Besides that, current AMD and Intel platforms should give you enough PCIE lanes to do it...
But it does'nt make any of the ping, packets or any of that better. Charge 90 $ for a NIC while most onboard NIC's do fine, is kind of expensive.
Who needs a 10GE adapater anyway for online gaming?