[bf1942] Bandwidth advice

James Gurney james at globalmegacorp.org
Mon May 9 12:47:45 EDT 2005


On 5/9/2005 9:28 AM, Aubrey King wrote:
> modem to cut costs (by 2/3 per month).  I'd like to run a server again, 
> but I'm worried that my upstream might be too slow to handle it.  My 
> downstream is faster than the T1, but up is a bit slower.  Any numbers 

Upstream is more important than downstream for the BF server. 30 players 
on our server pushes about 4Mbs up, while using less than 1Mbps down. If 
your upstream is slower than a T1 (1.54Mbps), I can't imagine it being 
good for more than 10-15 players.

James



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