How many servers can I run

[voidborn]

Connection 20mbit down/5mbit up

Computer 1
2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4
2GB DDR 400 MHz
Radeon 9600XT
Windows 2000 Professional

Computer 2
1.83GHz Mobile Intel CoreDuo T2400
2GB DDR2 533 MHz
Intel GMA 945GM Graphics
Windows XP Media Center Edition

How many servers can I run?
What should the tickrates be?
etc

[Spartanfrog]

What game?

[voidborn]

Spartanfrog Wrote:What game?

tf2 and/or l4d

[Mooga]

The 5mbit is your bottle neck.
And you can't host any L4D slots because the game isn't even out. Hell, we don't even know exactly how server are working for L4D.....

[txqzr4]

with a 2.4ghz p4, you are probably looking at 20 slots for reliable tf2 play. i used to run a tf2 server on an older 2.4ghz xeon processor (which is basically the same as what you have) and above 20 players i would start to get lag. it was fairly playable, but people did complain.

tick is locked to 66 for tf2.

[Oh No Deed Again (Sco)]

txqzr4 Wrote:with a 2.4ghz p4, you are probably looking at 20 slots for reliable tf2 play. i used to run a tf2 server on an older 2.4ghz xeon processor (which is basically the same as what you have) and above 20 players i would start to get lag. it was fairly playable, but people did complain.

tick is locked to 66 for tf2.

I have a 3ghz p4 with 2gbram and a onboard graphics card (naff) I manage to run 4 servers from that machine (Dedicated servers) 2 x hl2dm with 10 & 12 slots a Synergy server 10 slot and a TF2 server with 10 slots, if players are local and the servers are not full it runs ok, once i get players from Australia,USA and russia coming in it starts to slow it down (i'm in Scotland) so I would say that you could have 2 servers with 12 slots each and it would cope OK.

Malcolm

[txqzr4]

2 x 12 slot tf2 servers is going to really stretch it, expect slowdowns if you run that.