On side note, I have found that with the new version of counter-strike 1.3, I had to upgrade to windows 2000. Hosting on windows 98 was horrible. So I suggest if you have your server running on windows 98 or windows ME, you should upgrade to NT 4.0 or windows 2000. It helps alot.
Haplo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:21 PM Subject: Re: Tell me how > > 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 > >
