What your saying isn't wrong, but his little lan is a long way from needing to prioritize bandwidth. I could see added latency if more than a 2 or 3 people started sharing their iso/warez/pr0.. er um video collection but still not the 500ms ping action he's having.
- m0gely > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeroen "ShadowLord" Bogers > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Re: LAN Party suggestions > > > On the network side, assuming your switches are 100 Mbps, the network > will > > easily handle the load for many instances of HLDS running at 32 players. > > Another thing you should watch out for is 'filesharing'... If you don't > make > sure that every backbone is big enough for all the ports they host they > WILL > get overloaded. This results in most of the UDP traffic (the traffic HL > uses) to be dropped, sending packet loss and pings trough the roof... > > So say, you have a 10 port switch, running at 100 MBit full duplex for > every > port, you'll need a 1GBit full duplex backbone for that switch (a bit less > should be OK too, since most people won't even use 50% of their 100 MBit). > > If you only have 100 Mbit backbones, limit the ports to 10 MBit full > duplex.. Or half duplex if you want to fit even more people on 1 switch. > Even 10MBit half duplex is enough to play your LAN games, but it will > severly limit the amount of bandwith used by filesharing (which usually is > a > good thing). > > Avoid using HUB's at ALL times. If only 1 of the connected computer start > downloading files, all the people on the hub will suffer. > > Jeroen "ShadowLord" Bogers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
