I once ran a Return To Castle Wolfenstein server on a slackware 8.1 box out of my house. It did not have very good performance, all the players who joined had very high ping rates. My ISP is optonline.net, which has great service - 6MB download and 4MB upload. I thought it should have worked better than it did.
Now I am running Gentoo 1.4, and want to try again. Either that, or rent a rack server somewhere for $100 a month. I'm new to linux, so renting a rack would be tricky (like how to do a graphical install n a remote machine?). I have a netgear router connected to my cable modem. On my LAN, I have a Gentoo and Windows XP box. I have RTCW running on both in client mode. I have tried running RTCW in server mode on the WinXP box, but again, people had huge ping counts. Has anyone run RTCW (or Quake) as a server on Gentoo from their house? How was the preformance? Does anyone know what kind of bandwidth is consumes? Commerical rack servers seem to often have 1.5MB un-mettered access for $99, or 100MB mettered access for $200 (w/50GB per month). I seriously doubt 1.5MB would be able to host a 32 player game, but I have no idea how much it would cost in GB or $ to run a 100MB 32-player game for a month. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
