My Emu

devn00b · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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 · #8 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