Setting Up A Win32 ET Server

(denizsi) #1

I’m totally lost. A friend of mine working at some firm says they have a spare system powerfull enough to run multiple servers and they have a bandwidth of 800kb. He says it can’t go any lower than 700kb during traffic so now we’ll set up a ET server but I’m really confused with sv_maxRate and the number of player we should limit server to?

On ET Server guide it says 10000 is standard but poor for ET so it should rather be 13000. Through some guides which most of you probably has read, the bandwidth rates per players goes like this:

having a 500kb bandwidth with limiting to 10 players will mean 50kbps per player and that will be a sv_maxRate 5000. Now, compared to 13k mentioned in ET guide, this is only laughable. Something should be wrong along somewhere. We have played RTCW on 600something (definitely not higher than 700kb) kb server for 2 years with a max. limit of 22 players and usually there used to be 14 to 18 people playing and sometimes even we have hit the 22 limit with no specs at all. And it WAS very much playable.

Now all we have is this 700kb bandwidth, and unfortunately it won’t be Linux server. I need help here, please…

(Awol) #2

figure out how much bandwidth you use with this little algorithm

KB/sec = Number of Players * maxrate (which is in bytes)

I run a 20 player server with maxrate of 5000 (5KB/sec) At most I will use 100KB/sec on my server. I am using a T1 line which total bandwidth in bytes is 187KB/sec.

If I read your post correctly your total bandwidth is 800kb (bits) but you need to leave 700kb (bits) free for normal traffic. If thats right this leaves you with 100kb (bits) for the server. hardly enough for 2 people. Now if everything is in Bytes then you would have enough bandwidth for 20 people with a maxrate of 5000.

Like how my server is set up.

why Splash Damage said 10000 I will never know but 5000 works just fine for me.

I would be interested to see what maxrate other server admin are using.

(Vaticool) #3

Use E.T. Server Browser and click on Server Info : maxrate is displayed
My favorite servers are 13000-15000.
There is average 28 players on them.

So 28 * 13000 = 364 KB/s … ouch… 3 Mb/s. Am I right ?

Pleased to help :smiley:

(Spookstah) #4

no 0,3Mb

I`ve set our servers to 13000 and yes this makes some traffic daily :slight_smile:

(Milkman) #5

Ok so a Server like {SS}The Seattle Smackdown! which has a average speed test of 6500 kpbs up and about 6000 kbps down should handle how many with a maxrate of 13000??

Other specs:
pIII 933 mhz
512 ram
2 server-nics set to load balance.

LOL, Yah its an old box. The processor and memory definately are the bottle neck.

PS I run 24 in ET no problem but I run 30 BF1942 smoothly. Yet only 18 in Strike Force. Wonder why?
:???:

(Awol) #6

So 28 * 13000 = 364 KB/s … ouch… 3 Mb/s. Am I right ?

Just about right… I got 2.91 Mbps (bits)

My math using your down speed of 6000 kbps, you should be able to handle 57 people.

I wish I had that speed but ohh well I don’t pay for my the bandwidth I have so its all good.

(k1ll3r) #7

yea they eat quite some traffic lol

00041 76051347 11656543607 allow udp from any to 213.201.211.13 28960 keep-state in

11656543607 = ~11GB

and that was in two days :banghead:

(denizsi) #8

no, I’ve meant even during heavy traffics of non-ET things, the minimum free bandwidth will be 700kb.

So, (with a maxrate of 13000) we should be able to handle 20 people with ease I guess?

(Awol) #9

First off are we talking about bytes or bits lowercase “b” is bits 700 isn’t that much really when you think about it.

at 13000 maxrate (which is in bytes) you can have roughly 6 person server. If you lower your maxrate to 5000 you can get 17 people on it. Now if this was 700 Kilobytes per second you could easy have a 20 person server infact your max is 57 people.

(denizsi) #10

oh thanks, that was the answer I was hoping (the server is 700 kilobytes)

but the that friend of mine is nowhere to be seen now! bastard!