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Gotenks · 05-09-2004, 02:47 AM

I'll give you an example for cs.

A good friend of mine lives in a condo that has an uncapped fibre line (also note that he's one of only 30 residence in this condo). Speed is around 9/9mbit. Location is in toronto, and I get around 70 ping to his connect.

The first CS server he put up was a 1.83GHz AMD-XP w/ 512 ddr (2100 I think), and a crappy onboard video card (doesnt matter much).

When playin in the server, with over 15 people connected, the server would spike to around 110 (for me), and i'd almost constantly get 30-70 choke, and 20-40 loss.

Recently our company (tfl) was sponsored 2 xeon server's, both 2MB Cache, 3.2GHz with 1024 DDR 3200 (not specified brand/timings), and onboard video.. running redhat. (Note these are sponsored from intel, and have to go back after our tournament that ends today).

With both of these running a server each, 32 slots each. When one is full I get 80 ping, no loss, no choke. When both are full, ping goes up to 95(ish), no loss or choke.

So, both the connection and the computer matter alot. Even with the decent computer before, we were getting major spike's, and alot of loss/choke... but with the best xeon server that intel could sponsor us, everything ran nearly flawless.

05-09-2004, 02:47 AM	#9 (permalink)
Gotenks Crazy Location: In a house	I'll give you an example for cs. A good friend of mine lives in a condo that has an uncapped fibre line (also note that he's one of only 30 residence in this condo). Speed is around 9/9mbit. Location is in toronto, and I get around 70 ping to his connect. The first CS server he put up was a 1.83GHz AMD-XP w/ 512 ddr (2100 I think), and a crappy onboard video card (doesnt matter much). When playin in the server, with over 15 people connected, the server would spike to around 110 (for me), and i'd almost constantly get 30-70 choke, and 20-40 loss. Recently our company (tfl) was sponsored 2 xeon server's, both 2MB Cache, 3.2GHz with 1024 DDR 3200 (not specified brand/timings), and onboard video.. running redhat. (Note these are sponsored from intel, and have to go back after our tournament that ends today). With both of these running a server each, 32 slots each. When one is full I get 80 ping, no loss, no choke. When both are full, ping goes up to 95(ish), no loss or choke. So, both the connection and the computer matter alot. Even with the decent computer before, we were getting major spike's, and alot of loss/choke... but with the best xeon server that intel could sponsor us, everything ran nearly flawless. __________________ Mors ultima linea rerum est.