[mohaa] Server Requirements

[Jason Maderios]

I beg to differ with Matrix.  I am running MOH:AA on a Dual PII500 RH8 box
and run 16 users just fine and the max bandwidth I have pushed is 120kb.
See mrtg stats at 

http://7th.servebeer.com/localmrtg/localhost_2.html

The box is in a datacenter and has a 100mb connection into their dual oc3's.
Which is a little misleading because they limit my box to 5mb in/out and I
have never come close to using it. 

Also please bear in mind that I am running my clans team speak server on the
same box and regular have 7 to 8 users using the 16.4kbit codec.

When CI starts running scans at 18 users I start getting complaints of lag.
This is more a CPU issue than bandwidth.  Without CI I can run 20 user games
w/o problems.  Once CPU hits +75% users start to complain about lag.  I have
new 1ghz cpu's on order that will hopefully take me to 32 player game.  Or
at least 28ish..

Jason Maderios



*Note

Dual CPU's do not offer anything other than the ability to run 2 games on
the same machine..  We play our matches on 1 server and leave the other one
up as open arena.


If you look for the server on Game Spy or with All Seeing ...
It's Name is:

.:Bad Company:. Clan Server Balance+

You can watch its usage and hit the mrtg link above to see realtime
stats....



-----Original Message-----
From: Matrix [mailto:Matrix at ServerXtreme.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:02 PM
To: Eric Koldeweij
Subject: RE: Re: [mohaa] Server Requirements

Guess I should have looked at this email before responding.. LOL.. you
outlined bandwidth requirements better here. :)

Matrix

Original Message -----------------------
You can figure out for yourself...
Matrix said each client needs about 30Kbps. I think that's rather 
conservative, and I rather go for 50Kbps per client.

so for 18 players you need somewhere from (18x30) 540Kbps (matrix value) 
to (18x60) 900 Kbps (my value) up AND down, and keep a little extra 
bandwidth for pings, remote admin etc etc. T1 at 1500Kbps fits nicely 
with room to spare, but cable/DSL is pretty much out of the question. 
Usually the uplink is the problem.

Eric.

Skrobe, Steven wrote:

>Thanks Matrix, I appreciate the feedback. So basically you are saying that
>the server meets the hardware requirements, but we would almost have to be
>running on T1. Correct?
>