Re: Bandwidth

mike wuetherick wrote:

> after monitoring and calculations, we found that a default half-life
> (version 1) server is about 50 kb/s per player pretty much straight up
> to the max players, you can run about 12 players on a standard
> cable/dsl before you max out and start seeing lag.
>
> as another example, battlefield 1942 used almost twice the bandwidth
> per player, upwards of 100 kb/s per player...

Wow, those numbers sound awfully high. Your "Standard DSL" outbound speed is 
*6* times what I have at home. :) At 50kb/s (6.25Kbytes/s), a 56K modem 
would barely be enough to let someone connect to a server.

Maybe those numbers were measured using a heavier "LAN performance" option? 
(Not sure if those games support that, just wondering).

-- 
  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios



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