My original eqemu server (2008-2009) ran with only 8mb down/768kb up and was able to support 30 in one zone. The server itself was a repurposed laptop with a MASSIVE 1 gig of ram on a shit-tastic intel p4. The connection itself handled around 40-50 people as long as they were spread out.
My newest server is a AMD Phenom X4 overclocked, 8gig of RAM, etc on a 100mb down/10mb up connection and not even a single hiccup has been had and I've done some pretty crazy stress testing. I've AOE'd down entire zones. I've done raid testing with 30+ bots while I was also botting 6-7 real characters plus 2-3 other players 3-boxing.
Make sure you setup your database correctly to handle a ton of concurrent connections. Make sure your router/pc can handle so many concurrent connections. What connection speed are you running?
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