Hello i pay 150 dollars a month for a 1 meg by 1 meg line. This is a dedicated line. When first starting this server stuff I thought that i could have a 31.25 man room with the rates config right but i can only have a max of 16 people in this room should i spend the extra 150 dollars to go up to a 2 meg by 2 meg line so i would be paying 300 a month please help ????
please tell me were u live and what internet company u have and how much u pay for how much upload thank you

Well, if i wanted for about 160 i can get 3 cable lines and have 45meg download and 6meg upload.

Currently i am working on getting a 2nd cable line and finishing off my multihomed BGP4 Gentoo linux based router im building.
I figured its alot easier when i host most of my gaming community servers at my house, that way if somethign goes wrong, im there to fix it ASAP.

i live in connecticut and my ISP is cox communications.

So to answer your question, Yea, i think you're paying too much.
edit: moving this to correct forum.

This post was last modified: 08-18-2006 09:09 AM by cryotek.

If you're looking for the cheapest solution, look into getting a dedicated server. For $160/month you should be able to get a machine/connection that can host well more than what you're doing now.

yeah, stick to a normal home connection for normal gaming and use, get a dedicated server, or pay per slot for srcds servers. I can hook you up with someone if you're interested.

If you get home connection, i recommend speakeasy DSL its $99/mo for 6mbps but well worth it.

I think your buisiness line is not SDSL but a dedicated T1 line, you'd pay way less by buying for example multiple ADSL(2(+)) connections, these will be faster AND cheaper.

and if you are only into dedicated servers check out some hosters (pcextreme.nl if you're dutch)

Yes but with ADSL you don't get the same SLA as with a T1 so if uptime is more important then speed a T1 is suitable.

True but I guess that depends a lot on where you live,
I have a ADSL connection at the moment and have had it for what 6 years or so, since it was available first time. Since I got it we had a total of 2 outages of 30 minutes!! I don't have overbooking and I only pay 20$ a month for 3000/512. For a T1 you'd be losing LOADS of money AND speed compared to the ADSL.

But as I said, might be just in holland the service is good like that?

A dedicated server goes as low as 40 a month for a decent server, I'd seriously considder going dedi ...