Is this enough?

[killerbutler]

I have an old Celeron 400 with 512 ram that has been sitting in my closet for awhile. I have a SCSI controller to put in with a 32GB drive.

Would this be enough for a humble 12 man private server?

I have Verizon FIOS with 15down/2up, speakeasy is saying my teat is right on the money. I don't have alot of cash to spend and I hate to throw it away. It still works very well. And my son wants to host a private server for CAL practices.

[cryotek]

well, unless you toss in another stick of memory, it might be sluggish on windows, but should be perfect on a CLI linux.

[killerbutler]

I know nothing of linux. I will just use it as a file server.

[Drocona]

I've ran a 20 player server on 6xxMB 1GHz and i was at a total of 400MB memory usage (also had MySQL, Webserver, FTP and others running same time), so I think it won't be a problem running 12.
However what will probably be a problem is that celeron. I had a celeron like 2 years ago, it already had trouble running a gameserver of C&C Renegade. You can try ofcourse, it might have enough power, you never know with celeron. Just give it a try, who knows it might just work fine

[killerbutler]

The motherboard only supports 512 ram. So it maybe a case of spinning wheels syndrome.

I have however come into a P4 2.4 with 1 gig of ram.

Server Spec would be as follows:

P4 2.4b
1GB Ram
SCSI U160 Controller
36.7 GB U160 HD
Onboard 10/100 nic

I have Verizon FIOs with 15down/2up

With those specs how many slots could I run comfortably. And if possible, Please give an example of setting you would use IE rate, Cl_updaterate, cl_cmdrate, sv_maxrate, sv_minrate, and so on.

Thanks for all the help so far.

Oh it will be Windows 2003 Server.

[Drocona]

The server specs should be enough for 40 players on 100 tick.
However your bandwidth allows you to have something like 2x 16slot servers

cl_xxxx and rate are all client commands, these do not work on the server.
sv_maxrate depends on how may players you want to host, calculate it by this formula:
BW * 128 / SL
BW= Upload bandwidth in kbps
SL= amount of slots you wish to run (players)

sv_minrate of 5000 will keep 56k away, set it to 1000 to allow them to play.
sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minupdaterate 20

[killerbutler]

Thanks for the reply, Maybe have a 16 man on the side incase of scrims for my son. When that happens, I will just shut the 16 man down.