Kinda weird.. My clan's server was on a cable modem. Same thing.. Once about 8-9 people were on, the pings would jump up to the 1000 range and the server would time out. Now we have it on my SDSL 384K/s connection. It was working GREAT, but my ISP decided to change back bones... now the pings are higher and there is some lag, but it still holds the players and doesn't time out. I think that in general, with cable, since you're sharing the connection, it'll only get worse as more and more people get cable in your area. It may be expensive, but try to go with SDSL. That way you can acheive a greater upload rate. Just my opinion.
--- Haplo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me some settings I can change to > help my server conserve > its bandwidth? > > I know its not a good idea to run a server on a > cable modem but its > all I have. Right now I can hold 8 people max and > everyone that has a > cable modem or better runs in the 100's - 150's. I > have played with the > sv_maxrate and minrate and found that maxrate of > 2000 and minrate of 500 > seems to produce the best results. Anything other > than this will cause > major lag in the 1000's unless I have less then 6 > people playing. I am > running 1.3 on a 1.4G windows 2k box with 768M of > memory on a 1.5M down > and 128K upload cable modem from @home and its a > dedicated server. > > Haplo says "I can handle that" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1
