Weird

[Spartanfrog]

OK my specs are 2 gigs of ram, AMD 64X2 4600+, 250 gig hard drive, and my internet speed is 20/5. Its cable, but it still is fast. Now after running my server for a day, people started complaining about choke and lag. I was getting 2043 download and 4504 upload. So what should i do? Also even when the server has 4 people on it, my internet connection on other computers is noticably slower. Any help would be appreciated.

[Doggie52]

You might want to take a look into your rates and see if there can be done something there.

[skeletor]

First check your rates like Doggie said. I do remember hearing though back in the day that some cable providers like to put a bottleneck on their connection. Like if you download a small file, or do a speed test it will be just as fast as ever. But when you start trying to do something like run a game server and cranking out all that bandwidth the network will kinda just cut down your connection. I don't really know of a better way to put it, but yea, that just may be the case.

[Uri Dead]

Spartanfrog Wrote:<snip> Also even when the server has 4 people on it, my internet connection on other computers is noticably slower. Any help would be appreciated.

Other computers on the network? Dude, look into using QOS if your router supports it or upgrade the firmware if available, set the game server to high and the others to low. QOS is the only way to go with shared bandwidth.

[Spartanfrog]

Thanks guys, the problem was the rates. I missed a 0 at the end of maxrate.