Review: Killer Ethernet E2400 and Wireless-AC 1535

Conclusion

We come away from our time with the E2400 and Wireless-AC1535 feeling as though Killer has turned a corner.

When you consider that the company's first add-in products were expensive upgrades that in some cases showed minimal real-world gains, it's refreshing to find that the latest-generation Killer network controllers have shed the exorbitant fee while delivering meaningful performance gains via mature software.

Best-in-class latency is now only part of the appeal, and Killer's real value-add is Advance Stream Detect's intelligent prioritisation of network traffic to favour latency-sensitive applications. Putting it all together can result in an improved network experience, and though the feature set won't necessarily appeal to all users, we no longer see a reason to avoid Killer hardware, which is progress in itself.

What the team at Killer has shown is that innovation in the networking space can make a genuine difference to our everyday computing experience. Intelligent identification of data packets can play an important role in today's high-traffic environments, and we're intrigued to see where the technology goes from here. Network controllers that detect and control network traffic on a single device are helpful, but a Killer-equipped router capable of prioritising traffic to any number of devices would be all the more impressive.

Killer Ethernet E2400

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The Killer Ethernet E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller is available as part of various consumer motherboards. The Wireless-AC 1535 can be acquired as part of a laptop or as a standalone adapter from Amazon UK.

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