Ns Bandwidth Usage

Total_ImmortalTotal_Immortal Join Date: 2003-11-17 Member: 23028Members
<div class="IPBDescription">anyone know how much?</div> Anyone know how much bandwidth NS uses per month?

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  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    NS...forum, website?
  • TheNimbusTheNimbus Join Date: 2003-09-09 Member: 20696Members
    I think he's talking about running an NS server, where the amount of bandwith used monthly would be helpful information in determining the cost of running such a server.
  • DelphiDelphi Join Date: 2003-04-02 Member: 15134Members, Constellation
    As for a NS server, it depends a LOT...

    Particularly these main factors:

    Number of players (This is a major one!)
    Map rotation
    Number of (good) admins
    serverconfig.cfg

    If you have lots of good admins with a 20 player server playing CO maps constantly with helpful plugins (Or whatever), you can see a very high bandwith useage. Conversely, a 14 player NS only server with no admins and no /stuck plugin probably won't draw that much of a frequent playerbase.

    Either way.. Ask people to turn net_graph to 3 and check the in/out/sec. I usually get 1.5k to 3k a second on average. But I didn't change any of the rate/cl_updaterate etc., either. :/
  • LichoLicho Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3858Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited February 2004
    Player base doesnt depend on plugins, i run always servers without plugins and never had problems..
    My 20 ppl server takes usually around 1-2gb/day..

    20ppl server takes up to 350mb/hour when full.
    Depends on players settings (cl_cmdrate, cl_updaterate) ammount of people who are in same location and how many "actions" occur or how many buildings are in NS game, so its just rough average, jus watch your own dl/ul in net_graph.

    If you need to reduce it, don't mess with sv_maxrate, if you set it low, it just drops packets/causes high choke and players lag..
    Instead reduce sv_maxupdaterate from 20 to say 15 (no1 notices that).
    That reduces traffic server->client.
    If you need to reduce traffic clients-> server you must use some sort of plugin to reduce max cl_cmdrate (cannot be reduced serverside), i have plugin that sets everyones cl_cmdrate to 20. (This just safeguard from people with 100mbit lines here who use cmdrate 100 or 200 and flood server with useless traffic :-)
  • FierceFierce Join Date: 2003-08-21 Member: 20058Members
    edited February 2004
    Hey Licho, whats the plugin you use to set everyones cl_cmdrate to 20?? that would be usefull <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • LichoLicho Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3858Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->
    #include <amxmod>
    #include <amxmisc>

    public rater () {
    new players[32], numtotal
    get_players(players,numtotal,"c")
    for (new i=0; i<=numtotal; i++)  {
     client_cmd(players[i], "cl_cmdrate 20")
     client_cmd (players[i],"cl_updaterate 15")
    }
    return   PLUGIN_HANDLED;
    }


    public plugin_init(){
      register_plugin("My Rates","0.01","Licho")
      set_task(10.0,"rater",66661,"",0,"b")

      return PLUGIN_CONTINUE
    }

    <!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->
  • rknZrknZ Join Date: 2003-10-23 Member: 21885Members
    I would guesstimate at 8kb/s per player to be safe <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    So 64bits per player
  • FierceFierce Join Date: 2003-08-21 Member: 20058Members
    Thx, but our server runs admin mod <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • mashumashu Join Date: 2003-10-03 Member: 21412Members, Constellation
    edited February 2004
    My server uses about 5GB a day

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