a Little help please with my pings

[Brynster]

i am currently running a Cs Source server.

its based around an Athlon XP 3200 cpu, it has 1024 MB of ram.
Its a gun game server running mani admin and matties events scripts and runs at a tick of 66 and the sytem never goes above 25% usage even when fully populated with 10 players.

My issue is that on a 8mb down 448kb upstream its fine with about 4 players but anymore who join and the ping jumps by around a 100 for every person. I tried fiddling with the sv_maxupdates etc as recommended in the serverwiki site but nothing seems to improve the situation.

I should also mention that the server connects on a wifi connection to my router.

Anyfurther advice would be warmly welcomed.


Thanks in advance.

[Hollanda]

Set your rates lower and tickrate to 33, that will save bandwith which means you can host just a little bit more players on you home DSL line.

That's the bad side of running home based servers, poor bandwith.

Also power usage costs will be higher than renting a good shared gameserver at a gamehost. Your 3200XP will use over 1 Ampere constantly, here in Holland that cost around 25 euro's a month =)

[nix]

Hi
Try to connect to the router with a cable .
I'm not sure but some wifi use cryption and that make the connection slow.

[Drocona]

servers should always be connected with a cable, never use wireless.

[Brynster]

thanks for th input guys.

I will give your suggestions a try and report back.