Question for Drocona (A Lord) :)

[ipmaster]

Hi Drocona
I'm writing to you especially because I know you're the best srcds configurator in the world lol
I have A upload of 900 Kbps advertised and I get 885 Kbps from speedtests

I have a remote Fast DL server that have a blazing fast 30 Gbps Troughtput HeHe
I wont tell you who is it... but I have it free of charge
(to help... think about CANARIE project and their advanced networks)
My server is a 66 tick server I have set 18 player max

What do you think I should put as rates?
to dont have choke and to be perfect

Thaks again to the lord Drocona

Master_Mister (ipmaster)

[Drocona]

Hi there ipmaster, thanks for the compliments!

I'm afraid you won't get that amount of players at that tickrate on your server, you need 1024kbps to run a 14-16 player server at 33 tick. So I think you'll have to make a choice to either lower the amount of players to 8, maybe 10 on 66 tick or run in 33 tick and have 14 players.

Here are 2 configurations one for the 33 tickrate and one for the 66 tickrate:
33tick, 14 players:
sv_minupdaterate 20
sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minrate 5000
sv_maxrate 9000 (you'll have to work with values between 9000 and 10000 and see which causes less choke/lag)

66tick, 8 players:
sv_minupdaterate 20
sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minrate 5000
sv_maxrate 15000 (this shouldn't give any problems at all, if lags does show up lower it with 1000 each time untill it's gone)

As you can see everything is the same except the maxrate, the first 3 values are "universal" values, they can be entered into any dedicated server no matter what you run ( from 33 to 100 tick, 2 to 60 players ).
The minrate can be changed to whatever value you like, below 4000 will allow 56k people to play, above 4000 will disallow 56k people to play, since this is a bigger server or 66 tick I chose to disallow them.
How do I calculate the maxrate? Well it's not a secret, here's the formula I use, it works for every server no matter what tickrate.
bandwidth * 128 / maxplayers = maxrate (where bandwidth is in kbps)
You can play with this value a bit, it's never exactly accurate since every server is different.

I hope this is everything you wanted to know, if you have any other questions feel free to ask,

Drocona

[ipmaster]

Cool thanks...
I live in Quebec Canada and I just want to run a great server from my house... but I don't find any ISP that provides a better upload and worse download... like 8 Mbps Down / 3Mbps Up... they all get higher in the Down speed... does anyone know a good ISP that will give me a great upload speed?

[Uri Dead]

ipmaster Wrote:Cool thanks...
I live in Quebec Canada and I just want to run a great server from my house... but I don't find any ISP that provides a better upload and worse download... like 8 Mbps Down / 3Mbps Up... they all gat higher in the Down speed... does anyone know a good ISP that will give me a great upload speed?

Google is your friend, a equal or larger upstream pipe is offered for business plans and designed for servers to be hosted. The residential ISP offerings reflect numbers in the upstream area that are quite reasonable for their respective TOS agreements. IOW, most residential agreements forbid hosting dedicated servers, YMMV. Look at offered business plans available in your area.
Also, I'm working with a local University and offering to "host" a 32 man CS:S server (on their bandwidth) by "loaning" the hardware to them and their gaming club. They have all the bandwidth in the world and think I can get a box placed there with zero cost to me.

[ipmaster]

I know google... but I haven't found anything that have my specs... I've found some 100 Mbits line... but its too costly for me... it's like if there is no middle... always less than 1 Mbits or more than 50... but why there isn't 3-5 Mbits...

To be clear with everybody, we always talk about upstream or upload... (I dont want to reveive some post that tell me something like: I have 10 Mbits with Videotron... no... if you have 10 Mbits with Videotron, it's because you have 900 Kbits Up)
To be clear... I can't find any ISP that is not too costly... let's say about 80 $ CND approx. that give me 7 Mbits down and 3 Mbits up or approx...
So if someone know one (Quebec, Canada) please tell me

Thanks again...

ipmaster

[Drocona]

really, any connection for home use (non commercial) won't get that high.
it's based up on simple people that want internet and download por....music.

Every business line will skyrocket in price, it's very expensive. I can't find a good solution here in Holland either. it's 100$ for 1mbit upload and after that, a business line costs 500$+ for 1mbit...

You might be able to get 2 lines of 3 mbit upload to your home, that really is the cheapest and best solution available, however most ISP's don't allow this or cannot provide it at 1 location.

[Uri Dead]

ipmaster Wrote:<snip>
To be clear... I can't find any ISP that is not too costly... let's say about 80 $ CND approx. that give me 7 Mbits down and 3 Mbits up or approx...

Sounds like you better get with a game hosting company and just rent a server of the size you want, it would be easier and cheaper IMO and solve your problem. They run about 1.50 USD a slot. Or rent a dedicated server and install whatever ded game servers you want, they start at 100-150 USD. Either way you get all the bandwidth you could need to properly host the game server(s) you desire.