24 player - Bandwidth requirements?

CurveCurve Join Date: 2003-12-17 Member: 24475Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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Does any one who currently runs a server of this size have any data on the up/down requirements and how much bandwidth is used?
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  • derWalterderWalter Join Date: 2008-10-29 Member: 65323Members
    net_stats in console is your friend :)
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  • MindstormMindstorm Join Date: 2012-12-17 Member: 175356Members
    NS2 uses very low bandwith. I can host a 24 player server on 10mbit (= 1.2mb/sec) upload.
    Download should be at least the same as upload.
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  • CoTTonCoTTon Join Date: 2005-02-28 Member: 42773Members
    yeah.... no.

    minimum 3.0 Mbps up to be safe.



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  • ZEROibisZEROibis Join Date: 2009-10-30 Member: 69176Members, Constellation
    edited February 2013
    18 players is about .3-.4% of 1gbs line from what I have seen.
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  • KalabalanaKalabalana Join Date: 2003-11-14 Member: 22859Members
    Extra bandwidth will not make server performance exceed bottlenecks in tickrate/netcode. But definitely hit that min requirement on your pipe
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    During the v1.0 release, I was able to record some data of four, full, 20-person servers:
    An update since I have more data (on four full 20 player servers) from release night; average per hour:
    All Four Servers:
    DL Rate = 232 KB/s
    UL Rate = 696 KB/s
    DL Vol = 815 MB/hr
    UL Vol = 2447 MB/hr

    Per Server:
    DL Rate = 58 KB/s
    UL Rate = 174 KB/s
    DL Vol = 204 MB/hr
    UL Vol = 612 MB/hr
    NS2 data throughput has definitely changed since then, but you could probably use these numbers to get a fairly good estimate of the min bandwidth requirements. The only problem I've ever heard of regarding bandwidth was some gather servers saturating a 1Mbit/s upload (which are usually something like 12-14 people max). Anything over 3Mbit/s per 24 player server should be sufficient.
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