A ? From A Noob

masterswordman

<div class="IPBDescription">Okay deal with me here and explain ...</div> I'm interested in starting my own NS server (Actually more like 3), and I have a few ? about the bandwith.

I'm interested in getting a 1MB/1MB sustained colocation (Bit expensive but worth it).

Now I've read that you could put up maxrates to 8500, does this mean that every person would take only 8.5 KB/s? So a 1MB/1MB could support around 100 people, and still not lag?, in terms of bandwith.

\\I got a good 4U, with duel xeons at 2.2 GHZ each with 1GB ram, and one oversized HD.

So heres my math.

max rate 8500 = 8.5 KB/S per person

8.5 * 100 = 850 KB/S

BUT HERE THE MATH ACORDING TO ARTOFWARCENTRAL!?

We have a rate limit of 8,000 bytes per connection on public servers and 10,000 bytes on password protected servers. This means that a public 16 player server for example has over 1mbps of available average bandwidth available to it (16 * 8000 = 128,000 bytes * 8 = 1,024,000 bits).

It confuses me so if u can plz explain. TY

masterswordman

SO UR ALL ADMINS AND U CAN'T ANSWER A SIMPLE NETWORK ?, well if you can plz plz answer. I really need to know.

HtNickoli

Yes in theory a max_rate of 10000 = 10KB/s per client.

Of course your useage never gets this high. usually a client maxxes out at 4-8KB/s. For a 16 player server. I use on average 40KB/s. And thats with a max_rate of 10000, with 99% of players haveing cable/adls connections to the server.


<a href='http://www.hostilism.com/brothel/mrtg/traffic.html' target='_blank'>Bandwidth useage</a>

EDIT: ops wrong link

voogru

btw, what your gonna be getting is 1Mbps up and down, not 1MBps


Mb = Megabits
MB = MegaBytes
Kb = Kilobits
KB = KiloBytes


there is 8 bits in a byte, so divide 1Mbps by 8 and you have 128KB/sec


My 24 player server (with my mods of course) pushes out 50-80KB/sec.

masterswordman

Well once again voogru you help out a noob, and then you get flamed by a post u start, lol. Well thanks a lot straight and to the point I never knew the MBps and Mbps were different. But I'm a web designer (not a good one), so I only know computers there.

Grimm_Spector

<!--QuoteBegin--masterswordman+Jan 27 2003, 02:35 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (masterswordman @ Jan 27 2003, 02:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well once again voogru you help out a noob, and then you get flamed by a post u start, lol. Well thanks a lot straight and to the point I never knew the MBps and Mbps were different. But I'm a web designer (not a good one), so I only know computers there. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even web desingers should know the difference, so they can keep transfer rates, times, and bandwidth to a minimum for their sites, by tweaking what gets d/l to the client, when, where and in what format....