My Emu

moydock · #1 07-10-2007, 04:41 AM

Well my cable is 50 up, does that mean 50/10=5, meaning i can have 1 person on my server at once? i don't think so.

techguy84 · #2 07-10-2007, 11:51 AM

What do you mean moydock. Is yours 50Mbit up, or do you have 50Kbit up, or are you taking about like mine, 50Kbyte up. Anything over dial up can hold more than one player

devn00b · #3 07-10-2007, 12:14 PM

GuildWars had ~180 players on a 1.5mb up line, spread across multiple servers. I would highly recommend if you plan on having that many players to use more than 1 box.

On a side note as i've said before, the 5kb/s per client thing is waay of, UNLESS someone broke packet combines, and packet compression. I should be as little as 2-3kb/s per client really and probably even less.

John Adams · #4 07-10-2007, 03:48 PM

I've had up to 12 players on my server, blowing stuff up for hours, and aside from the old reposte zone crashes we used to get, I never saw a blip in my utilization. I was on Cox at the time, so you know 492 people in a 50 mile radius were probably all going through one switch - stingy pricks.

I "supposedly" have thie vDSL now - talking likr 52mb down. I have yet to see a download rate that even comes close to that... so I think all these providers are full of shit. Best way to tell is to just run it. If/when you run out of bandwidth, upgrade. They'll love taking more money, believe me.

techguy84 · #5 07-10-2007, 04:54 PM

I went off someone else saying 5kb per person. I have never really dove into this to confirm it, or find a accurate measure. That would seem about right though 1.5 up would hold around 150 at 5 per person, if you got 180 then 2-3 seems more right.

The moral of this story is, dont get that cheap old 19.99 month internet. Unless your unpopular and nobody plays with you, shoot for good broadband.

CrabClaw · #6 07-11-2007, 12:21 AM

The EQ client is limited to 5k (like the max rate on a 28.8kbps modem line), unless you edit your datarate.txt to set it to a maximum of 10k. 'Back in da' day' I used to play EQ on dialup, and then switched to something better later, and the hard-cap was still there.

moydock · #7 07-11-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by devn00b

GuildWars had ~180 players on a 1.5mb up line, spread across multiple servers. I would highly recommend if you plan on having that many players to use more than 1 box.

On a side note as i've said before, the 5kb/s per client thing is waay of, UNLESS someone broke packet combines, and packet compression. I should be as little as 2-3kb/s per client really and probably even less.

Yeah if you were able to hold 180 players on a 1.5mb line then that would mean, 1.5mb=1500kbps=187.5 KB/s, so that's a tiny bit over 1 KB/s per person. That's pretty damn low, i guess you have to factor in that many were afk and or boxed...

Btw, how does one get a hold of a 1.5mb upload? Can DSL lines get up there or is that a service?

devn00b · #8 07-12-2007, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by moydock

Yeah if you were able to hold 180 players on a 1.5mb line then that would mean, 1.5mb=1500kbps=187.5 KB/s, so that's a tiny bit over 1 KB/s per person. That's pretty damn low, i guess you have to factor in that many were afk and or boxed...

Btw, how does one get a hold of a 1.5mb upload? Can DSL lines get up there or is that a service?

Vdsl was what guildwars was run on at the time. My home line atm is Fios I have 30/15mb connection.

John Adams · #9 07-12-2007, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by devn00b

I have 30/15mb connection.

omfg i hate u.

I'm thinking of going for business class Cox, which I think is 7m/768k. At least it'll be static.

sfisque · #10 07-13-2007, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by devn00b

Vdsl was what guildwars was run on at the time. My home line atm is Fios I have 30/15mb connection.

yah, fios is phat. they didnt have it in my neighborhood yet, so i had to with business cable again (they clocked it at 13mb down/3mb up when installing it) so i'm not complaining, but man, 30/15 would be very tasty.

== sfisque