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.

Well i guess your engine was using TCP , right?
No need to test to say that UDP games will consume much more.

GC.


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