GIGABYTE LAN OPTIMIZER
Hello, this is Colin from GIGABYTE...
today I have a new utility that I want to show you called the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer
many of you at home probably have a single Internet connection that's shared amongst many devices
So you probably have a PC in your living room, a PC in your bedroom,
and maybe some mobile mobile devices like a tablet or a cell phone
or maybe you just have one PC that uses many applications that use the Internet connection
Now of course if you're sharing an Internet connection with many devies or applications
that means sometimes a single application might hog all of your Internet bandwidth
leaving limited resources for your other applications
for example, let's say you're downloading some movies on Bittorent
so you're downloading but at the same time you want to watch a HD YouTube video
so of course Bittorrrent is going to strangle all your other applications
that are actually wanting to connect to the Internet as well
So what GIGABYTE has done is develop this new utility that smartly manages your network bandwidth
We've come up with a pretty unique software solution as well as a hardwware solution
that actually does this management for you
So what we've done is...all of the motherboards that feature the Reatek 8111E LAN Controller
we've developed a special application to take advantage of some pretty intelligent network management
So let me show you the actual user interface...
So this is the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer user interface
as you can see on the left here, there are several different tabs
the first tab is 'Mode' tab,
so basically what GIGABYTE's LAN Optimizer does
is takes several common usage scenarios, and adjusts your network settings accordingly
So the first common scenario would be gaming of course
Online gaming...so if you play alot of online games
you click this mode and hit 'Apply'
Now what that does is, it will take small but fequent packets
that are often associated with online games
and it will prioritize them
So basically it'll take those packets and send them quicker to the server
The next 'Mode' is 'Stream Mode'
'Stream Mode is the mode you'll want to use when you doing a lot of Internet streaming
For example Internet TV...you should click 'Stream Mode'
What that does is prioritize a more constant and steady package flow
generally associated with data streams
The next 'Mode' of course is 'Browser Mode'
So you should click this mode if you're doing YouTube videos,
or just generally browsing the Internet...
So 'Browser Mode' prioritizes short bursts of large packets of information
And then of course we also have 'Auto Mode'
'Auto Mode' will intelligently manage your network based on your usage scenarios
So let's say your gaming one time, watching a YouTube video another time
It'll automatically adjust your settings according to your usage
So, again, once you click your setting, you just hit 'Apply'
and it will automatically configure it for you
The next tab is for people who want to do some more fine tuning
This is the 'Program' tab
as you can see here, these are my different applications that I have loaded
that I have in the past used my Internet connection
These two at the top are actually using my connection right now
but they are not downloading anything
As you can see, I'm able to change and adjust the priority levels
so I can make this high, I can make it low...
and I can even block applications that I don't want to be using at a certain time
and of course for each application
it's always convenient to be able to see what your actual download and upload speeds are for each
so you can make those configurations
Obviously I'm still in 'Browser Mode' so these settings are configured for 'Browser Mode'
but I can make any changes I want based on my needs
So all I have to do is click save, and it'll automatically save those changes for me
The next tab is the 'Advanced' tab
the first section shows your Internet speed
so you an click this box righht here and it'll automatically detect what your Internet speeed is
You if want to manually insert it, you do that as well
for people who know what their Internet connection speed should be
and then down below here is some more sensitive settings
you've got 'Delay' and 'Sensitivity'
So if you want to speed up your response time
you can enable or disable, as well as your TCP delay ....so enable or disable
all you have to do, is after you make those settings hit 'Apply'
and it'll automatically do that for you
you can also reset to default settings
The last tab is your 'System Info'
this basically just shows you your system
CPU, Netwok card, memory etc, etc
So this is basically the user interface,
now lets's see a real world situation where we're actually
using multiple applications for that one single Internet connection
So now I want to show a common real-world example
of using multiple applications on a single Internet connection
So I have turned off GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer
an I've started a Bitorrent application
so basically I'm downloading a bunch of files here
and you can see it's actually eating a lot of my network bandwidth
So of course, in a common situation
you don't want to sit here and wait for all of these files to finish downloading
you want to do other things
So let's say I want to watch a YouTube HD video
So I open up YouTube...
I'm going to click on 720p...
and we're going to see how it plays
so now all of that bandwidth, or the majority of the bandwidth
is being taken by the Bittorrent application
as you can see it takes a long time to load this content on YouTube
and now finally the video has started to play
but of course it's very choppy, it's going to stop and load the content
because it's not getting enough bandwidth to actually watch, or stream the video
Now what I want to do is, I want to show...
First of all let me get out of here, I'm going to...
clear the Internet browsing history, so it'll clear my cookies and cache
now I'm going to open up GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer
So I'm going to leave it in 'Auto' Mode
going to 'Apply' 'Auto' mode...
And I'm going to just take a look here
So as you can see, here is our Bittorrent connection
and now I'm going to open up again the video and we'll see what happens
So here's the YouTube video...
We going to change it again to 720p...
of course it'll take a little bit...
and there you go...
so now already you can notice that it's much smoother than it was first time around
So what GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer is doing,
it's actually giving this YouTube stream priority over the Bitorrent
it's actually going to throttle the Bittorrent download speed
So this is intelligently noticing, saying.. 'Ok, let's give priority this YouTube stream'...
...so you can there's no delay or lag at all.
So that's just one common example that you might run into
or a common Internet usage scenario
But home you're going to run in to some other issues as well,
let's say you want to stream Internet TV,
or you want to play a game...
GIGABYTE's LAN Optimizer will take of all of that network management for you
so you don't have to worry about it
So if you have a limited Internet connection,
and you're running mutiple applications
or if you have many PCs connected to the same Internet connection
GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer will smartly allocate that network bandwidth
As I said earlier, GIGABYTE has tuned this for several of our motherboards
all the motherboards that feature the Realtek 8111E LAN controller
So this is on a lot of our motherboards
in fact, the majority of our boards
So basically you can go to our website,
you can download the ultilty for free,
and start using GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer