🚀 go-pugleaf

"- Auto -" <somewhere@overthere.com> wrote in message
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> "EvilBill" <devlin@SPAM-ME-NOT-o-JERK-weset.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:c4nf5o$vov$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Since Tom's had to work, I shall host the co-op server instead :)
> >
> > Midnight UK time (I'm not sure if the US has switched to daylight
savings
> > yet so it's either 6 or 7pm EST)
> > IP: 81.76.96.196
> >
> > BYOB (Bring Your Own Bfg) ;)
> >
> > Let's slaughter some Stroggs!
> >
> > --
> > --
> > "I see what the nhh-stars do, because so fair is their shape; it is well
> for
> > me with them and it is well for them. I am a nhh-star, the companion of
a
> > nhh-star, I become a nhh-star, and I will not suffer for ever."
> > EvilBill - http://www.evilbill.co.uk
> > My Quake2 FTP site: ftp://65.30.181.223/quake/EvilBill/
>
> EB, wondering.....how's your xDSL connection been holding up
> in terms of a dedicated server?  How many players can you
> reasonably host?
>
> Saw Margolis' response to one previous query and he cited the
> fact that his cable connnection wouldn't be ideal to host any
> team fragging...and at most would prolly max out after 6 or
> so players. (ahhh how the memories of "Killers House" come
> back to me which was Rail Only and maxed out at 6!)
>
> Just curious.  I too have cable, but like Margolis my uplink is
> capped at 256, but my downlink is raging at 3.2Meg. ;-P
> Unfortunately it's the uplink bandwidth that a server needs
> most to provide good gameplay.
>
> Anyway....let me know.  Why?  Well if a 256K uplink can
> reasonably host something acceptable to a few players I can
> prolly set up a server too for those "can't get enuff fraggers".
>
> -Auto-
>
>

*silence*
56k can host 3 people with "acceptable" lag....