[bf1942] is this a normal amount of traffic for a BF server?

Andrew A. Chen achen-bf1942 at divo.net
Thu Dec 19 13:51:58 EST 2002


Well, the linux server appears to mirror the windows server in bandwidth 
usage, if what Christopher wrote is correct.  What he quotes is about what 
I see on the 24 player servers I host on Windows.

HL servers can do much much more than 2GB per day when utilized all day.

-a

At 08:10 AM 12/19/2002, you wrote:
>Quoting Christopher Kunz:
>
> > Well, a fully utilized 24 person public Conquest server draws about
> > 2.5mbit/sec, that's around 312 kbyte/sec. that's something around 1.1 GB
> > per hour and 26 GB per day, if always full.
>
>That  amount  of  traffic  could  easily ruin  anyone  who  is  paying
>per GB transferred.
>Ryan,  is there any consideration about reducing the server bandwidth?
>I   fear   that   currently   not  many  providers can afford (public)
>servers, at least not if they have no traffic flat.
>With   a   tremendous  traffic  useage like that, the BF42 server will
>never  reach   the  numbers  of  e.g. the Half-life servers (which do,
>IIRC, 2 GB _per day_).
>
>Regards
>Bjoern




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