Server Minimum Requirements
bradisbest
Join Date: 2004-02-28 Member: 26959Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2004-02-28 Member: 26959Members, Constellation
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You can also set maximum rate to something like 7000, which is plenty, altho people will probably **** as you <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Lets get into details for knowing your internet connection and what you can do with it. Knowing exactly what your connection speed is, is very important. Lets start with the definitions. (please note uppercase and lowercase definitions)
k or kb = kilobit: 1,000 kilobits = 1 kilobyte
K or KB = kilobyte: 1,000 kilobytes = 1 megabit
m or mb = megabit: 1,000 megabits = 1 megabyte
M or MB = megabyte: 1,000 megabytes = 1 gigabit
(Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. These messurements are close enough to present a general idea of thier true values)
How do we translate this?
Ok, lets for an example say you have a 56k modem and you want to know what your transfer rate will be using it. Following the messurements as shown above, the 56kbps modem will transfer about 5.6 kilobytes of data per second. That's exactly 10% of what the modems rated speed is. Another example, say you have DSL or Cable connection rated at 384kbps upload. You would actually be sending 38.4 kilobytes per second. Again, notice the modems actual speed is only 10% of what it's rated for.
Now that you know how fast your internet connection speed is, how many players can it support if you was to host a half-life server? The answer is very simple. Take your figured actual internet connection speed and devide it by 4 and you will have your answer. Now by default, each user connecting to your server will pull down 4 kilobytes per second. Using 56kbps upload, you could only support 1 player. Using 384kbps upload, you could support nearly 10 players.
(note: 56kbps modems only have a 28.8kbps upload limit and there-for can not actually support another player. True 56k ISDN connections are the same speed both ways and could support 1 player)
But all is not lost. Say you do have a 384kbps upload connection hosting a 10 player server but need room for 2 more players? This can be done by tweeking your servers sv_minrate and sv_maxrate settings. By default, sv_maxrate is set to 10,000. This is fine for a T1 line or faster but a sv_maxrate setting at something like 2000 is much better suited to the adverage DSL or Cable host. This will increase lantency some-what to all players by redusing how many bits per second that each player in the server can pull down but will allow you to keep lantency with-in reason yet still have room for a few more players.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Enjoy
If we assume that the transfer limit is unidirectional (meaning indepedent outbound and inbound limits), you can run servers totalling about 130 people active people 24/7. If not, halve that figure.
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