Well most co' are prolly quoting the bandwidth of the datacenter. I love seeing hostnames on a cs 1.6 saying oc48+ as well - its hilarious. The bandwidth to the servers gets filtered down to whatever your nic is set to.
Most datacenters set it to 10Mbps (I think i said 10mbit) and will change it to 100Mbps upon request with a good reason. 10Mbps is plenty of bandwidth for multiple games on one box. In data communications only the Metric definition of a kilobyte (1000 bytes per kilobyte) is correct. The binary definition of a kilobyte (1024 bytes per kilobyte) is used in areas such as data storage (harddisk, memory), but not for expressing bandwidth and throughput. 10Mbps = 1.28 megabytes per sec = 1280 kilobytes most players get around 3-8 kilobytes per sec if you look at netgraph. So even if everyone was using 8 the box would still hold a max of 160 (426 @ 3 kilobytes) players theoretically on a 10Mbps nic. Of course you would never hit 100% utilization without transmit errors etc but who loads their box with 160 players lol. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sebastian Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] server cpu preference btw.. oc192 is rare.. even very few ISPs have that kind of bandwidth, multiple oc3s DS3s and maybe oc48s, yes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Shinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] server cpu preference > It always cracks me up when people claim these "T3 / OC192 / OC3" pipes > for there game server company. Yet my single game server machine housing > lots of slots barely tops 2mbits at any time. I hope all those people > realize the difference between 5mbit capped link and an OC192 most > likely wont be noticed in a game server environment. I'm glad you had > the balls to say it's a 10mbit uplink. Which is usually the deciding > factor =) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >In those terms its a MCI OC48 Full Sonnet Ring with the additon of dual > >OC192's in the upcoming future. Of course the servers are at 10Mbps. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kennycom > >Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:14 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] server cpu preference > > > > > >ahh,,, I hadn't thought about it in those terms, normally people say how fat > >the pipe is not their monthly usage limits... > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Sebastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:54 PM > >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] server cpu preference > > > > > > > > > >>i assume he means 1200gb monthly transfer, not how big the pipe is ;) > >> > >> > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Kennycom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: <[email protected]> > >>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:36 AM > >>Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] server cpu preference > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>You might want to fix your typo.... > East Coast Only - 1200gb BW > >>> > >>>Considering an OC-192=9.952Gbps.... Unless I am missing something here... > >>> > >>> > >>>----- Original Message ----- > >>>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>To: <[email protected]> > >>>Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 8:20 PM > >>>Subject: [hlds_linux] server cpu preference > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>I know we have beat this dead horse a thousand times but here it goes > >>>>again. > >>>>Im not asking if intel is better than amd or vice versa as a cpu > >>>>company > >>>>etc. I just want to know out of the following 2 configurations what > >>>> > >>>> > >>would > >> > >> > >>>>give me more performance in a multi cs-server aspect. Anyone running > >>>>either > >>>>of these 2 configs? > >>>> > >>>>2x 242 CPU (1.6GHz) (1MB cache) > >>>>80GB 7200RPM HDD > >>>>1GB ECC RAM > >>>> > >>>>or > >>>> > >>>>2x 2.4GHz Hyperthreading > >>>>160 GB HDD (2 x 80) > >>>>1 GB RAM > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>Dedicated Servers Available > >>>>East Coast Only - 1200gb BW > >>>>p4 thru xeon - AIM: gotgameservers > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
