[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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