Self hosted voice comms, need some knowledge

esoteric · 22 Jul 2013 at 01:16

I've hosted my own TS3 server in the past, it ran great but eventually we switched to Multiplay hosted Mumble server.

Today my mate mentioned Raspberry Pi, a £28 circuit board that is a computer basically and it's independent. We were discussing buying 1 and just using it to host our own voice comm from.

So suppose I run it from my house off my own connection, what kind of bandwidth would 30 people on Mumble need. I have a 120Mb line and when I hosted TS3 before there was no lag but had around 10 to 15 people using it. Also when hosting TS3 the address was my IP addy, if possible can I mask that? like use a URL address or something?

Thanks for any help.

smogsy · 22 Jul 2013 at 07:25

Mumble uses 45-50kb to trasmit normally per person (on default settings)

you could use a url yes

Hyburnate · 22 Jul 2013 at 07:28

Yeah you can use dyndns to mask it.

Lee · 22 Jul 2013 at 12:48

I have a Mumble server running on a Raspberry Pi. We use it as backup to our hosted Teamspeak server. Only ever had 8 or 9 on it at once, but it coped with no issue. I have BT Infinity with about 50MB down and 20 MB up.

Use a service like No-IP for your external connections. You'll need to run some client software on a machine on your network so that it can cope with a dynamic IP.

esoteric · 22 Jul 2013 at 20:51

Lee said:
Use a service like No-IP for your external connections. You'll need to run some client software on a machine on your network so that it can cope with a dynamic IP.

Wouldn't Raspberry Pi be able to handle running that?

Lee · 23 Jul 2013 at 08:56

I think it can, but not tried it myself.