How Many Players

[henhouse]

Would a 2Mbit upload hold?

For me I've always been able to hold 100 testers with slight latency. Hardware isn't a problem, but running Vista Home Edition (wish I had started with Ubuntu)

Just wondering is that's normal for that connection.

[subhuman_bob]

It depends on what they're doing.

You should be able to find software that shows you how much network traffic is going to/from your computer.

http://www.download3k.com/Network-tools/Network-monitoring/Download-Interface-Traffic-Indicator.html

[cyrex]

Anybody might have an idea for a package for linux that can verify the upload and download, check how much has been used from a certain ip, limit speed of certain connections or ip and more?

Like a bandwidth controller or something to that effect

[FragFrog]

I know of at least 3 excelent packages for windows that do just that (in fact, with windows Vista and later, a trafic monitoring tool is included in your task manager: go to the performance tab and hit 'Resource Monitor'), none for linux though. Top should give you some information I think?

From experience I'd say that with 150 ~ 250 users we use about 2Mbps on average - but peak requirement is a bit higher than that, so for your needs it should suffice but if you get more users you might want to invest in a bit more bandwidth. I would advice 1Mbit / 100 users + 1Mbit overhead as general rule of thumb.

[henhouse]

I know of at least 3 excelent packages for windows that do just that (in fact, with windows Vista and later, a trafic monitoring tool is included in your task manager: go to the performance tab and hit 'Resource Monitor'), none for linux though. Top should give you some information I think?

From experience I'd say that with 150 ~ 250 users we use about 2Mbps on average - but peak requirement is a bit higher than that, so for your needs it should suffice but if you get more users you might want to invest in a bit more bandwidth. I would advice 1Mbit / 100 users + 1Mbit overhead as general rule of thumb.

Unfortunately, 2Mbit Upload is the highest I can get from an ISP. The only other ISP capable of doing higher is Verizon Wireless's Fiber Optic FiOS which isn't available here.

[Gimp]

Unfortunately, 2Mbit Upload is the highest I can get from an ISP. The only other ISP capable of doing higher is Verizon Wireless's Fiber Optic FiOS which isn't available here.

Then your only other choice is to pay for dedicated server hosting, which can be quite expensive especially in the US.

[mrlocus]

should work with 40 less active players, but your already in trouble of 10 of them start pvping or raiding.

[xeross155]

you can just get a dedicated in europe even if you're from the US a quad core box costs 40 euros