Day of defeat uses default rate 4000, 4Kbyte/sec * 31 players = 124KByte/sec = 7.4Mbyte/minute = 435 Mb/hour 435Mb/hour * 24 * 30 days a month = 313 Gigabytes a months.
Your rate, server fillup and the measurement accuracy may vary, but 160GB is a very common figure. Popz. (www.clawsandteeth.com) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Edge100x Sent: woensdag 27 november 2002 22:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] bandwidth use I feel sorry for anyone who's charged by the gigabyte. Why? It's not a coincidence that most of the "serious" ISPs charge by 95th percentile -- they want a good estimation of what people are using during peak hours so they can accomodate accordingly as far as purchasing a big enough pipe. GB/month can be misleading for that, resulting in an ISP buying too little bandwidth sometimes. (Thus, going by GB/month is better suited for TCP-style traffic, where the pipe can fill up and everything still works just fine, albeit a bit slower -- with UDP gaming traffic, it's much more noticable when you run out of bandwidth!) In additon, when you're charged by the GB, a big (multiple gigabyte) one-time download/upload (or a few of them) could murder your bill for the month, whereas with 95th percentile, you probably wouldn't be charged at all for it (since the top 5% of the samples are dropped). There are other reasons why 95th percentile is generally better for both the provider and customer, but I'm tired and can't think of them right now ;) Edge100x ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Swan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: [hlds_linux] bandwidth use > Hi, > > I run a single Day of Defeat server with a max of 31 users ( 31 + 1 > always open slot). My ISP is reporting bandwith usage of 160+ GB per > month (for just this server + SSH connections). This seems excessive to > me. I was wondering if anyone with experience could tell me if this is > average/low/high. > > I have maxrate set to 20000 and minrate set to 500. > As just a rough estimate, I would say that the average observed in-game > ping was in the high 70s to low 100s. > > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
