i need help getting rid of lag

[BADASS]

Hi I need help getting the lag down on my server.

the machine I am running on is a dual 3.06ghz machine with 2 gigabytes of ram.

the connection is 5 mbps

I was wondering what are good rates for a 66 tickrate?
please help me fix this problem.

[Drocona]

first of all I kindly ask you to reduce the width of your avatar, it's resizing the page.

second, how many players?

[BADASS]

18 players

[Canada369]

Well I run a duel 3.2ghz p4, 2gb ram, 10mbps connection and i get NO lag. The only thing i can thnk of that could be cauing ur problem is more then 1 sever or high resources program running. Or meaby your server is in the UK and ur in the US or visversa

[BADASS]

no the server is in Arizona.

[Canada369]

Check to make sure nothing else is using alot of CPU. In ssh type "top" and it will show the running processes and the cpu/memory usage.

[BADASS]

nope nothing else is running.

[candy-man]

Is this a 5 Mbps symetrical connection or a home connection with 5 Mbps of download speed?

[BADASS]

it a business 5 mbps of download speed that's all i know.

[candy-man]

Try testing the connection's upload speed; that's what really matters when hosting anything. If it's a cable/DSL buisness connection, I doubt it has more than 1 Mbps of upload speed.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

[BADASS]

it is 5mbps upload

[cryotek]

Sounds like it can't maintain 5mbps up and down at the same time, if you're upload is in use, you're going to have low usage of download, im going to assume this is business cable? from cox perhaps?

[BADASS]

yes it is from cox but i got friends with same connection and they never have no problems with there servers.

[cryotek]

Hmm, well I have cox's home, 15mbps down and 2mbps up, if im using my full 2mbps then my download suffers.

[BADASS]

how much you pay a month for the 15mbps down and 2mbps up cause I need to upgrade.