Nuku Posted March 30, 2002 Share Posted March 30, 2002 I'm trying to figure out the bandwidth requirements for hosting players. It seems to be rather high. On a 100Mbit LAN, my server machine can handle 10 bots and 4 players without any problems. I tried to get together with two others via cable-modems (1.5Mbit down, 128Kbit up), with zero bots, and the same hardware, but it was unplayable with a third person. Only two people could play. I can only guess it's the 128Kbit upload limit that's causing the problem, and each player takes up... 50kbit/sec of data (yow that's a lot). ... Anyone have any *quantitative* data on bandwidth requirements for JK2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[GSI]STEM Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 i've been running a 32 player (30 public, 2 private) CTF server... when maxed out (server stats: http://stem2.gamespy.com/jk2/), it's doing about 1.5Mb/s (1.1Mb/s out, 400Mb/s in), so like you said, that's about 50Kb/s per client... /stem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrebel Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 you can limit your server using the sv_maxrate option. setting the max rate to 5000 means everyone in the server can only take about 4.5-5k worth of data (your upstream). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanehart Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 where and how do i do this. my upload speed is about 40-50 locked. so i can make it work better ?? Originally posted by madrebel you can limit your server using the sv_maxrate option. setting the max rate to 5000 means everyone in the server can only take about 4.5-5k worth of data (your upstream). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Khrom Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 well i may be wrong here but this is what i use it is for the unreal engine Just find out what your upload is and divide by 28.8 juat enter you upload speed and the amount of your player load I know this could be way off but it is working for me and put the number given in the maxclientrate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixCPA Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 The exact thing you want to have, or change, in your server.cfg (or whatever you call your config file) is like this: seta sv_maxrate xxxx ..where xxxx is a number, typically between 5000 and 25000. The most common range you'll see is 7000-10000. That rate will give the clients plenty of data and yet not waste what bandwidth you have. If you set your maxrate inside that range, you'll usually need ~30,000bps per client. So, with 16 clients that would be about 480kbps which translates to just under 60k/sec upstream bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanehart Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 ??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixCPA Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 What's the question? I left my magic 8 ball at the office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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