Bandwidth Requirements?

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 8:11 pm Post subject:

This isn't really "frequently" asked, but hey, this is the closest I can get...

Anyway... how much bandwidth does it take to host a server well? Kbits/sec overall and per player? (either measure works)
Upload and download? Do they differ significantly on the server end? Does it scale up linearly, or something more annoying?

How much RAM and processing power for say... 24 players max?

I've heard warpath is the worst map for server strain, so maybe just what's required to run that...

Oh, and what is the air speed velocity of a fully laiden swallow?

Computer · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject:

African or European?

Cadman · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 10:10 am Post subject:

Both, just for kicks.

Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

An average 24 player server will take up around 600kps. The upload speed is the most important part though. TV 2 is the slowest of the servers (I think) It's a P3 667 with 256 RAM. Here is a link to a bandwidth spreadsheet.

http://www.theville.org/transfer.xls

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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 12:56 pm Post subject:

Woohoo, thanks! That's some good info

Now I know how many bytes 24 players would take if they all played for exactly one century...

Twisted29 · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 1:20 pm Post subject:

Woohoo, I can host a 2000 player server!

Of course, I'm sure everyone else would lag...but it sure you be cool.

On an unrelated note, how much bandwitdh does HLTV take up?

Snaggletooth · Guest

I could host a 50 person server and not even use 1%. Cool.

Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 2:05 pm Post subject:

Snaggletooth · Guest

I used to play on some 32 man CS servers, it was so much fun. We could send squads out to different parts of the map, and everyone stuck together on the CTs. It was great. The firefights were insane, sometimes everyone on the server jammed into the hallway in Dust, you could throw a grenade and take out 5 people with it.

Lin Sivvi Defiant Hero · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 2:30 pm Post subject:

The physical maxium of the tfc engine and c-strike engine is 32, so you cannot do that. I've seen 32 player c-strike server ran on a T1, and you could probably do the same in TFC.

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I used to play on some 32-player 2Fart servers... it was fun seeing 4 snipers jostling for the campgrounds

(one EMP did wonders)

thewz · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 3:32 pm Post subject:

Hmm I never new that an OC3 was faster than a t3. Hell I always thought t3 was top of the line. I'd like to get one of those 0C192s tho, anyone know how much it would cost?

Anyone ever play a 64 player game of tribes 2? My base once had to go through a 22 person raid/raping from the nmes. It's just insane, tanks, bombers, dropships flying all over the place!

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 3:51 pm Post subject:

Well, I found a list with the lowest price is $1,466,500

But, I think that's for the router needed to connect...

An OC3 (155Mbits/sec) is $49,000/month

There is no estimate for an OC192, but, doing the math:
OC192 (9.6 Gbits/sec) (9600/155= 61.9-some-odd OC3s) would translate to approximately $3,034,838.71/month

thewz · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 3:56 pm Post subject:

Hmm..i'm sure rob would love to give me 350 million (american, obviously) dollars every month. Right rob?