The Killer brand has been in service for over a decade, going through several companies. Now that it has found a home at Rivet Networks a series of innovations has brought us to the latest iteration of their WNIC, the Killer 1550.

Rivet decided to go a different route with the Killer Wireless AC 1550, engaging in a partnership with Intel to harness the power of the latest Intel Wireless 9260 chipset. Adding in the speed, intelligence, and control that Killer offers, we now have what Rivet boasts as the world's fastest 2x2 11ac NIC. Diving into the hardware, 1550 is quite impressive with 160Mhz channel support on the 5GHz band allowing 1.73Gbps of throughput. Along with this, we have standard 867Mbps support via 80MHz on the 5GHz band and 300Mbps support on the 2.4GHz 40MHz band.