Re: Bandwidth

Memory is fuzzy, but here I go. Praetorians (RTS using standard fare 
lock-step multiplayer) peaked at about 8K/s on a server with 8 players 
(server collects input packets from all clients and resends them to every 
client, 5 times per second). Well, higher than that if all players decide to 
start frantically banging their keyboards / mice. Average bandwidth would be 
much lower because the low frequency of commands during actual gameplay, but 
we never bothered checking it; perhaps 2-3K/s.

Brett Bibby wrote:
> Can anyone with a _shipped_ network-enabled (WAN, not LAN) title
> comment on how much bandwidth is used for your game? I'm trying to
> understand the network bandwidth needs for a variety of game types,
> so the game type (name is even better if you can disclose) and the
> bits/bytes per second throughput would be appreciated.
>
> I have done a lot of googling and it seems there is a big difference
> between the games that shipped and those that are in development in
> terms of usage, so I'm hoping to limit the information to actually
> shipped titles and real-world numbers.

-- 
  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios



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