GameFirst II is the latest upgrade to the original GameFirst, with ROG delivering smart cFosSpeed network traffic shaping technology that cuts your pings and latency with background data packet inspection. This gives you better online gaming and VoIP team-chat, together with an intuitive interface that offers exclusive EZ Mode and Advanced Mode to cater to all users. GameFirst II - As the IT industry migrates further with the internet, more and more contents are made available online. This often leads to bandwidth limit concerns, especially when trying to perform tasks online such as surfing, webmail checking or even watching streams while having one or many download processing running in the background. Considering the download process often drains out the bandwidth required for the smooth delivery of the desired tasks. To overcome this problem, ASUS provides an exclusive software package, the GameFirst II which combines various network shaping techniques in one, aimed to provide the network shaping functionality required for the smooth delivery of network contents under congested network.
Key Feature:
* EZ Mode - Under this mode, the users will be able to access the key network shaping features provided by the GameFirst II with a few simple clicks of a mouse through simple GUI. This mode is aimed to make bandwidth management more accessible to its users.
* Advanced Mode - Under this mode, users will be able to make adjustment to all network shaping features provided by the GameFirst II. Advance users can make use of this mode to optimize the network to what best suits their application.
* Online Calibration - The GameFirst II utilizes an intelligent online server to calibrate and optimizes the performance and ping time at the user end. The remote server will analyse the user networking environment, and make adjustments accordingly. This task will be done automatically during the very first execution of GameFirst II after its installation.
* Favour Bandwidth / Ping Time - Though the maximum throughput of the user networking environment has been looked after by with the unique online calibration engine and the preset network profiles, heavy online gamers also looks for any opportunities to minimize the network pings for their network environment, even if that will cost some of their network bandwidth. The network configuration will be recalculated to deliver either the instant improvement of network pings or network bandwidth with a simple click of the Favour Bandwidth / Favour Ping Time icon, ensuring the network is to be optimized for all applications.
* Real-time Monitor of TX / RX Performance - The GameFirst II comes with a built-in real-time monitor function to monitor how well the current network configuration performs. Users can use this info to help them configure the network shaping options to optimize their network environment further.
* Real-time Monitor of Current Network Priority - The GameFirst II comes with a built-in network application priority monitoring tool to show how exactly has each applications been prioritized to deliver the current network performance. Users can make use of this info to make desired changes in the priority profile to achieve the most desired result.
* Online SpeedTests - Under many cases, after the user has optimized their network configuration, the next time that the users would love to know, will be how well it can perform when connecting to the outside world. GameFirst II comes with its own network benchmarks, which through the communication with a remote server, works out how well the network can perform, and send back to the user system for later reference.
*Note* For all access types: DSL, Cable, Mobile Broadband (2G/3G), WiFi, etc.
OS: Windows 8/7/Vista/XP + Server 2003 & 2008 (x86/x64)
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