I put a 32 player Free for All server online last night and measured the bandwidth usage. It topped out at 738MB during the busiest hour. The machine is on a 100 mbit connection with the rate at 25000. Hope this helps some others.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 8:02 AM, Dubravszky József <<a href="mailto:mail@joed.hu">mail@joed.hu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">For good pings a 100 mbit connection is more than
enough. The data rate is about 10-15 KByte/s for a client when
connected (/w game setting "rate 25000" which is most common).</font></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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<b>From:</b>
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<div><br></div>Hello all!<br><br>I am new to both the client and server side
of the COD series. Can you share the bandwidth usage that you are seeing
on your servers? I am particularly looking for 32 slot + with 24/7 usage
at 80% +.<br clear="all"><br></blockquote></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dax Douglass