Server Ping Issue

[mehrdad]

The server i own on my pc, when im not running on any programs except for the "dedicated server" it shoots up to 500-999 ping after 10-12 people.

Why is that?

[realchamp]

How much upload & download to you have?

[mehrdad]

about 1mb dl and about 150kb/s-200kb/s upload


cable rogers 10mbit 100line

[realchamp]

You don't have enough upload to hold 10-12 players at anything with that upload, thats why your cleints pings flys into the wild.

[mehrdad]

But look at this




and

this
Source: http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View.php?view=HL2Guides.Detail&id=4&game=3

Quote:Upload Speed (Kbps) Player Limit
240 6
320 8
400 10
480 12
560 14
640 16
720 18
800 20
880 22
960 24
1120 28
1280 32
1440 36
1600 40

[realchamp]

What tickrate do you use?

[helio]

there seems to be a lot of different slot # from all this sites

Quote:128K uplink = 2 players
256k uplink = 4 players
320k uplink = 6 players
512k uplink = 9 players
768k uplink = 14 players
1024k uplink = 19 players
1140k uplink = 21 players
1708k uplink = 32 players

this comes from http://cpnclan.home.comcast.net/~cpnclan/player.html

[realchamp]

Quote:Bandwidth: Bandwidth is used a lot—more specifically, upload bandwidth. Here is a list of how fast your connection must be to run a certain number of players at lowest settings. (When talking about bandwidth for servers we always talk about upload, not download.) Note: these numbers are theoretical, your results may vary slightly!

So if you're doing 100Tick? Counter-Strike: Source?

Then it's not enough for 100tick.

[Drocona]

I'll say again, all the values you find on the internet are at LEAST 1 year old, a lot has changed in the engines/bandwidth. Also all those values in guides (including the ones in my article, the one you quoted on planet half life) are THEORETICAL (like mentioned in my article too), it's just to give an indication of how things would be running. I would rewrite it with new values but next year I'll ahve to change it again and again. Besides that I can't even edit it.

at the current bandwidth rates you'll be looking at this:
8 players = 512kbps (semi-low quality)
14 players = 1024kbps (reasonable quality)
20 players = 1500kbps (reasonable quality)

These are for 33 tickrate, if you go higher you can almost double the amount you need.

[mehrdad]

Drocona Wrote:I'll say again, all the values you find on the internet are at LEAST 1 year old, a lot has changed in the engines/bandwidth. Also all those values in guides (including the ones in my article, the one you quoted on planet half life) are THEORETICAL (like mentioned in my article too), it's just to give an indication of how things would be running. I would rewrite it with new values but next year I'll ahve to change it again and again. Besides that I can't even edit it.

at the current bandwidth rates you'll be looking at this:
8 players = 512kbps (semi-low quality)
14 players = 1024kbps (reasonable quality)
20 players = 1500kbps (reasonable quality)

These are for 33 tickrate, if you go higher you can almost double the amount you need.

its at 66 tick i guess it has to be 33 tick with 14 slots than ty!

[steven57146]

how do you change the tickrate on a srds? i want to make mine at least 66 instread of 33.
Thanks

[Mooga]

-tickrate 66

[steven57146]

Can I have a little more info than that. That's a tad on the vague side.

Thanks

[l4dead]

-tickrate 66 has to be in the command line that you use to start your game, also the clients connecting must have there cfgs on the client side set to utilize the servers settings. Ill try and dig up the client side cfgs.

[steven57146]

Thanks you.
I typed "-tickrate 66" w/o quotes in my server.cfg and it didnt work so i tried my autoexec and its still a 33 both times. hmm? any ideas thank you