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We just had a fiber line installed into the office. Me and the IT guy were thinking about running a CS server, hardware is not an issue we have a couple of dual xeon boxes to use. Is a T1 line good enough for a server and how many players can a guy run on it?
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Wow, T1 is 1.5 Mbps Up and down.
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No. You need a faster pipe.
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fqdn Wrote:if you've seen the any of the matrix movies, a game server is not all that different. it runs a version of the game that handles the entire world for each client connected. that's the 2 sentence explanation.
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A T1 by definition is 1.5Mbps
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fqdn Wrote:if you've seen the any of the matrix movies, a game server is not all that different. it runs a version of the game that handles the entire world for each client connected. that's the 2 sentence explanation.
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It's a dedicated fiber line.