This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Brian A. Stumm wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, -<GB>-Carpy wrote: > > > >>Exactly. And whats more hardly any of us do it to make money. We do it to >>create a gaming community and give people a great place to come and play and >>meet the same people online. We do this for free, with our own money, yet it >>now seems we are better off ditching these high spec server and bandwidth >>and setting up one on a PC at home....... >> >>Disgusting. >> >> > >If you think running it from home is easier or cheaper then go right >ahead. I happen to be a person running on a home connection. 1 megabit/sec >up and 1.5 megabit/sec down. Two gameservers totalling 30 slots plus web, >email etc with static IP. I pay and what I dont pay I put into maintaining >two physical linux boxen. > > > > Except you are the rarity, most people on home connections don't have those kind of speeds and they run off their old celeron boxes or older P2 or P3's. At least in my experience. Just for shits and giggles, i took an old computer from my office home with me today and fired it up here with CS. It was small 8 player pub, full within 5 minutes...no one had a ping below 150 because it was laggy, and it stayed full for about 5 hours before i decided to take it down because I dont want to run a shitty server. But it does go to show you the home connections do get the traffic first :( -- Zack Sloane http://zteknology.com We Put Personal Back in Personal Computer! You Dream it, We Build It! -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
