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Myself and a few friends have been playing abit of CoD 2 recently and need to have a small server to practice on and come up with a few tactics.

Is it feasible to use a home internet connection these days to run a 10 slot server on or are there issues surrounding this. When I looked into this many years ago i was under the impression that the upload speed was limiting.

Does anyone have any expearience or thoughts on this?
 
all depends on your upload...

you can host a 32man server on any connection, but i would say, any more then 6 players and your going to suffer major lag issues.

EDIT - A 10 man Branded server = £6 :S buy one...
 
I can't see it being much of an issue, ive run a Hl2DM server for 12 man on 20MB before.

It it doesn't cost you anything to setup to try it - then why not :)

But as said, £6 is not a lot for a 10 slot server.
 
Some ISPs will give you a 20Mb downstream and a 100kbps upstream.

Some will give you 20Mb downstream and 1Mbps upstream.

The latter is obviously favourible for hosting a gaming server, check to see how fast your upspeed is ;)
 
20MB BB get 768k up :rolleyes:
3 people connected to me play L4D typicaly get 50-60ms.
9 people however may be a little dicy.
 
£6 does sound very cheap.

I have a spare motherboard, processor (Athlon 64 3000 i think), PSU & RAM (1 Gig) from an old rig i used to have which is sitting there doing nothing atm.

I thought it might be an interesting little project to take on but maybe with the cost being so little its not worth it. I might do it for the hell of it and then i can use it as a download rig in the future:)
 
The main issue with hosting a game server from home, after the actual latency from you to the ISP and your upload throughput, is other useage on the line - if your doing a bit of web browsing its going to lag hosted games out badly.

For COD2 your going to be recieving around 2KB/s and sending 5KB/s to each player on average, baring in mind you need to leave some overhead so it doesn't saturate the link and make things laggy that means on your average 448Kbit/s BT ADSL MAX upload you probably will be able to host around 9 players with acceptable connection quality. A lot of BT connections are now on WBC with upto 1.3Mbit upload - tho actual connection speeds of around 800KBit/s are more usual - with actual throughput around 65-90KB/s which should quite comfortably host 10+ players.



www.escapedturkey.com to add a little variation tho not as cheap (~£9 for upto 64 player COD2) but you get more for your money.
 
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