Any Wlan card with hardware offload engine?

[hap2001]

Hi, I noticed all my Wlan cards cannot set hardware "offload" (TCP/checksum/large segment/etc) features, on both Windows and Linux, but wired cards can.
Are these features meant to be only available on wired network cards? Thanks.

[Postal2]

These functions are available in USB-LAN adapters. As for Wi-Fi, they are most likely available too, if closed proprietary drivers are used. This can only be checked by measuring performance.
I was always surprised when some retro-computer enthusiast installed a Realtek network card and checked YouTube playback, it was immediately clear that the person was very stupid.

[coromonadalix]

loll bring back souvenirs  with theses old Realtek cards .... dumped lot's of them

had to get D-Link ones instead, easier to work with  ....

[Postal2]

...had to get D-Link ones instead, easier to work with  ....

D-link used re-labeled Realtek chips. 3Com and Intel worked fine, with the Intel 82559 being the best, slightly better than the 82550 and noticeably better than the 3Com (Parallel Tasking II).

For the ISA bus it's the same, only 3com Parallel Tasking and Intel.

[coromonadalix]

was it them  with their  processing unit on the card

Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 ??  you have the wifi ones too
https://www.gamingnexus.com/Article/2741/Bigfoot-Networks-Killer-2100

[Postal2]

... Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 ??  ...

For information (photo of the chip from another board).

[NiHaoMike]

The Killer NIC was basically a whole network coprocessor. Mikrotik makes a very similar device nowadays, it even cost about the same as the Killer NIC did back then. (Cheaper if you factor in inflation!)
https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_2xs_pcie
Not aware of a wireless version, I guess the real problem is that the wireless link is going to be the bottleneck and the gain from adding a coprocessor would be very limited.