Its part of the wireless card driver. And I actually find it rather helpful in determining which programs are using bandwidth as I have a pretty pathetic connection at home.

Megabrein wrote:
Hi there,
I am desparate. After passing the windows 8 install on my new G750JH I have an application on the desktop that seems to scan my appications and internet connections. I requests to do a speed test for my provider.

This program that only can be stopped using the task manager is called: Killer Network Manager. After killing this with the task manager it autostarts when I reboot.

Megabrein, it is a harmless app that is a cool feature of the Qualcomm package that supports the Killer 1202 Wireless card. I disable it in the TaskManager => Startup tab, along with disabling most startup stuff we don't need running all the time.



I haven't needed it's features, and I try to disable everything that I don't currently need - I don't need stuff running in the background I am not actively using.

As a suggestion in the future, try to remain calm and slowly think through these things before going off and repeating the same actions that aren't solving the problem until they cause another problem.

It isn't easy in the beginning, but think of these activities as making a difference in a real world setting. You wouldn't remove and replace the fuel injection in your car 3x and continue to wonder why the brakes are still not working 🙂

Asus can be very helpful, but they are sometimes too literal to their response scripts when they don't have enough info - since they are required to take action to assist the user - if you feel they are taking shots in the dark, ask to be escalated to an engineer.

And, always provide clearly thought out problem statements that they can understand clearly - English isn't their primary language - so it is even more important to clearly state the problem such that they understand the point of your request.

Welcome to the ROG G750 Forum 🙂

If you take the time to read through as many of the forum posts as you can early on, you will discover lots of cool things about your laptop, and how to optimize it, well before you think of the questions 🙂

Hi to all!

I have a problem with killer application, when I test my connection I save results and apply, but when I restart application the value of the test reset and the apply is off (it seems to be that I haven't do the test). Thanks in advance...

If you're worried about it being a virus/malware then just install a decent free antivirus - Avast or AVG or Sophos are all good enough. If you'd bought Asus ROG you'd get Kaspersky for free, although of course Asus prefers the much better performance of embedded Intel LAN controllers over the much hyped perfo... (and anyone can confirm these differences firsthand, as reported on sites like this and this). The G750JH spec page doesn't state which Gigabit 802.11a/b/g/n NIC is installed but some configurations appear to use Intel hardware and some appear to use Killer-Bigfoot 1202 2.4GHz/5.0GHz Wireless-N Bluetooth hardware.

The Killer 1202 is actually a Qualcomm Atheros QCA2282 chip or QCABHB1202 module (custom-programmed at the Gigabyte/MSI/etc mobo factory).
The Killer E2200 is actually a Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 chip (custom-programmed at the Gigabyte/MSI/etc mobo factory).
The Killer app is nearly useless and can be problematic with firewalls. The entire Killer software suite can be uninstalled and a generic Qualcomm WHQL driver from Microsoft can be used instead (as detailed here and here). It will not be slower than the Killer driver (it might actually turn out to be a little faster without having to run the Killer software overhead), it has wider compatibility (and plays nice with Windows), and it has more aggressive support/updates.

(ROG GameFirst is a very similar app, and it's equally half-useless. Smart gamers will turn it off, remove it, or never install it.)

Your top-priority network packets (the game!) will indeed be prioritized with these apps - but all your other networking will suffer and the general cost on your system resources really isn't worth any minor gains (in the game!) you might see. It's much smarter to just turn off all the other junk you're uploading/downloading in the background, lol, only one car on the road means no traffic jams or collisions. Networks are highly hardware dependent, they can be optimized a lot better through hardware-layer or firmware-level stuff than by application-layer software running on top of an operating system - don't be fooled by the dubious claims these softwares make about improved performance.