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I have an old Celeron 400 with 512 ram that has been sitting in my closet for awhile. I have a SCSI controller to put in with a 32GB drive.
Would this be enough for a humble 12 man private server?
I have Verizon FIOS with 15down/2up, speakeasy is saying my teat is right on the money. I don't have alot of cash to spend and I hate to throw it away. It still works very well. And my son wants to host a private server for CAL practices.
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well, unless you toss in another stick of memory, it might be sluggish on windows, but should be perfect on a CLI linux.
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I know nothing of linux. I will just use it as a file server.
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The motherboard only supports 512 ram. So it maybe a case of spinning wheels syndrome.
I have however come into a P4 2.4 with 1 gig of ram.
Server Spec would be as follows:
P4 2.4b
1GB Ram
SCSI U160 Controller
36.7 GB U160 HD
Onboard 10/100 nic
I have Verizon FIOs with 15down/2up
With those specs how many slots could I run comfortably. And if possible, Please give an example of setting you would use IE rate, Cl_updaterate, cl_cmdrate, sv_maxrate, sv_minrate, and so on.
Thanks for all the help so far.
Oh it will be Windows 2003 Server.
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The server specs should be enough for 40 players on 100 tick.
However your bandwidth allows you to have something like 2x 16slot servers
cl_xxxx and rate are all client commands, these do not work on the server.
sv_maxrate depends on how may players you want to host, calculate it by this formula:
BW * 128 / SL
BW= Upload bandwidth in kbps
SL= amount of slots you wish to run (players)
sv_minrate of 5000 will keep 56k away, set it to 1000 to allow them to play.
sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minupdaterate 20
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Thanks for the reply, Maybe have a 16 man on the side incase of scrims for my son. When that happens, I will just shut the 16 man down.