Ns 3.0f = Bandwidth Hog

GiGaBiTe · March 2005

i got my server online a couple hours ago to see if i could reconfigure everything to work correctly. so i put ns_siege007 on, lock the server and dance around the map.

good lord, net_graph shows that my client is requesting 3x to 4x the data it used to.

previous in/out:

out: 1.62
in: 1.28

current in/out

out: 3.53 (goes up when moves around)
in: 2.10

um WTH?!

that basically cuts out all of the small servers such as myself, my internet connection cant handle 10 players on 3.0F without severe lag, unlike beta 5 where 10 players was no sweat.

Bry · March 2005

I hadn't actually noticed this myself.
i will have alook at my servers and get some stats going...

CheesyPeteza · March 2005

Heres some stats to look at. It doesn't appear to be a massive increase in bandwidth used for me, but it does increase slightly.

<a href='http://www.yoclan.com/yomrtg/127.0.0.1_2.html' target='_blank'>http://www.yoclan.com/yomrtg/127.0.0.1_2.html</a>

Cagey · March 2005

The redout bugfix is causing the extra bandwidth... we're looking at alternatives now.

Depot · March 2005

I'm going to get a better reading on my 12 player server, but currently can say performance is significantly worse. I experience choke on it now that I've never had before.

mindstormmaster · March 2005

I don't see a large difference. We managed to get 14 players going on a home dsl connection, though 4 of the players were on the lan. Even still, the outbound traffic for the remaining 10 topped out at 300kbit/sec.

Zdrone · March 2005

I was noticing a lot of extra bandwidth being used as well... then I realized that I had forgotten to put my sv_maxrate back in the server.cfg. Its 20,000 by default.

Been running fine since i dropped it back to 8000.

slayerkl2 · March 2005

15 players and when it reaches around lets say 9 it becomes a lag fest. I tell people to check there rate in case it was change (i thought this my self). Hope thisll soon be delagged a bit.

eliotmat · March 2005

I've been running a 22 player server since July of 2003.

This release (and the accompanying lag) caused us to drop playercount to 18 to get the server back in playable form.

GiGaBiTe · March 2005

in the readyroom on a couple of maps, i have seen the kb/s inbound to the client at 10 kb/s

now thats bad.

i have a 40 kb/s connection, and that means i can only serve 4 players X.x

Bry · March 2005

aye although normally it does settle to a lower amount 2.5 which i find is fine their are some pretty bad spikes

modie · March 2005

Slight increase, but nothing major

28 player

woody · March 2005

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe,Mar 8 2005, 04:26 AM]i got my server online a couple hours ago to see if i could reconfigure everything to work correctly. so i put ns_siege007 on, lock the server and dance around the map.

good lord, net_graph shows that my client is requesting 3x to 4x the data it used to.

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I Also had a big jump with 18 on large Kustom maps , Then i set sv_rate 9999 & sv_minrate 200. It alot better now but still 10% higher than beta5..

Ns 3.0f = Bandwidth Hog

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