Can someone give me an educated guess on monthly bandwidth?

[DancingEskimo]

Ok I am looking to find a remote host for my server but I dont know how much bandwidth I should be looking for I am guessing a maximum of 35 players at any given time but maybe an average of 10-15 so lets work off of the 10-15. and lets say for 12 hours there is 12 people on during the 9am - 9pm time then for the 9pm - 9am (vica versa) there is about 3 people on.

How much bandwidth would you educatedly guess would be used during a given month? Thanks for any guesses you can give just looking for some advice :lol:

[Monrezz]

The general rule of thumb is:

5Kb + (5* No of players)

...so 10-15 would be 55Kb - 80Kb a second.

*Edit* This should go down with the new combined packets, though.

[DancingEskimo]

Thanks :) now 5(K/s)*60(seconds)*60(minutes)*24(hours)*30(days)\1000 = 12,960Mb/month per person...... Wow not finding a host that is free that will supply that any time soon :lol:

Ok so anybody looking for a free mysql host take that note to mind that is bad cheese.....

*Edit* Oh and that is just if I averaged out to have 1 person logged onto my server during the entire month. :evil:

[xeeman]

I'm just starting a server on my aDSL connection. I have www.netlimiter.com installed to throttle bandwidth. Of course I haven't checked it with players other than me, but I was showing very little usage at all. I was really surprised.

Also, remember that 8 bits = 1 Byte so...

12,960 Mb/month = 1,620 MB/month = ~1.58 GB/month

[animepimp]

Using a program to limit bandwidth on your server will do no good. It'll jsut cause people to LD constantly when they are on. And you're not going to use much bandwidth if you are on and your client is ont he same computer. The computer is smart enough to recognize its own IP address ass the destintion and source so nothing will get sent out to the internet except a packets occasionally that the server and client need to send to the login servers.

[DancingEskimo]

12,960 Mb/month = 1,620 MB/month = ~1.58 GB/month

I started with bytes though... So it should still be ~12.8Gb/month

[Monrezz]

I meant 5 + (5 kilobytes a second * per person) :P

[cavedude]

The numbers are going to be quite lower now with combined packets but also because of 2 other things. 1. Nobody will be on 24/7 which is what you are assuming (I know estimate high to cover yourself - good idea) and 2. Clients only use 5KBps while zoning. I have found when people are in a zone and are just playing, the bandwidth used is in bytes, so very minimal.

[DancingEskimo]

I mean that if there were 2 different people on and that is it, and they are on for 15 out of 30 days, that averages over the month to be 1 person on the server throughout the month even though there was only 2 different people each day kinda like taking shifts just for the sake of the scenario.

But ok 15/30*2/1= 1
(15 days out of 30) * (2 people (converted into a fraction if you were to do it on paper))

making 1 the average number of people on for the month

So basically if you have 30 people on your server for 1 day then,

30/30*1 = 30 people if all you had through the month was 30 people on for 1 day.

Sorry for the people that know I am sure most of you do but that is just for people wondering

Also can turn it into if 1 person was on for 1 hours then it would be 1 hour over the number of hours in the month,

1/720*1/1 = 1/720 and in a decimal is 0.0013889 (truncated)

Pretty worthless but I had to flex my little math muscle

I was bored anyways but have fun!