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Re: Quake2 Server Performance tips

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From: GiJO
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:17
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Lol... yes i did mean kbps!

Any better performance would be very much appreciated!

Thanks
Andy


"HyperCube33 (Life2Death)" <hypercube33@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> My server has pings of <1 second between machines.
> My server is a Pentium 3 500Mhz with 384Mb of SDRAM
>
> I hope you meant 512kbps instead of Megabytes per Second, I'd kill for 
> that bandwidth.
>
> I don't use a front end, just a batch file I wrote to keep the server 
> going if it totally crashes.
> I can look up the settings to get a little better performance, but I wont 
> be home most of today.
>
> Cheers,
> L2D
> "GiJO" <newsgroups@mutestyle.com> wrote in message 
> news:KCtmh.279$A8.150@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just started running a quake 2 server, and ping times aren't that great, 
>> on the local network they are 15, which isn't bad, but should be much 
>> less being on the same LAN, i was hoping for under 50 for remote people 
>> and they are getting upwards of 200, so i was wondering it you have any 
>> tips on increasing performance?
>>
>> My server is running on a laptop, but has 1gb ram and is a Pentium M 
>> 1.8ghz, surely more than enough to run a dedicated server. I've got the 
>> server set to 10 players and my upstream broadband is 512mbps, soon to be 
>> 1024mbps so i don't think i have a problem with bandwidth.
>>
>> Also is there a good front end to use rather than having to remember all 
>> the console commands?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Andre
>>
>
> 
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