any banwith saving tips for 32 player?

[mrviper]

my 32 player tf2 server is chewing through over 40gb a day and at that rate il be over my 1000gb limit pretty soon :/

so im wondering if there is any settings to optimise the bandwith the server uses?

thanks vip

[ubermensch]

How's it managing to use 40GB a day? Do you have loads of custom maps, sounds, skins and so on?

[mrviper]

nope just a verry busy server that has the 32 player mod with std maps and instant respawn

the only time it not full is between 3am and 9am gmt

my didicated box is hosted by leaseweb in amsterdam

[fqdn]

lower your sv_maxrate a little by little until you/other players start seeing choke/loss then up it a bit and that's your new sv_maxrate. that will be about the only thing you can do unless you lower slots.

[mrviper]

many thanks for your advice mate

i tryed puting the tickrate to 33 but it wont change it just stays at 66

[Spartanfrog]

what does your start up line look like?

[mrviper]

srcds.exe -console -game tf +map ctf_2fort +maxplayers 32 -ip 85.17.212.44 -autoupdate -tickrate 33

[technik]

i find it unlikely it'll be taking 40GB traffic to run 1x32 man personally...

the server i run has 196 slots in use over 7 srcds instances for TF2 and DODS and gets about 3.5TB traffic a month or around 120GB/day

the 3 DODS ones are all in the top 30 and the 4 TF2 ones in the top 80 in the world

[Spartanfrog]

mrviper, it might look like 66 tickrate because of your rates. In your server.cfg make sure to put sv_minrate 33 and sv_maxrate 33. This will lock it into 33.
@Technik, I am no expert, but instant respawn probably has something to do with it.

[technik]

Spartanfrog Wrote:mrviper, it might look like 66 tickrate because of your rates. In your server.cfg make sure to put sv_minrate 33 and sv_maxrate 33. This will lock it into 33.
@Technik, I am no expert, but instant respawn probably has something to do with it.

doubtful.

anyway the 4 TF2 servers i help run all have fast respawn too.

our servs average like 25GB/day tops. the original poster should interrogate any usage figures he has carefully as 40GB seems excessive to me.

[Spartanfrog]

Oh well I thought instant respawn was something special.

[fqdn]

maybe he's transferring custom maps