Teamspeak server spec check!

200sx

200sx

200sx

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Hi guys!

I'm thinking about building a rig with only one purpose in mind, to run Teamspeak server.

I need it to be silent and as cheap as possible.

I'm not comfortable having my main rig on 24/7 so I would be interested in your thoughts on the following:

VIA Epia Eden 600MHz fanless motherboard with onboard cpu.
A stick 256MB DDR2100.
A IDE to flash convertor (to use a 1GB compact flash card as an IDE drive).
Half-life2 collectors edition case (so it can blend in on the shelf amongst my other games).
A modified X-Box1 PSU.

It will be running an old copy of windows 98 sr1 as that's the minumum TS server will run on. An optical drive will only be temporarily conencted for the purpose of the install.

Can anyone see any problems with this? :p
 
System should be ok for a TS server, but i'm not sure what impact it'll have on your bandwidth, i suppose that depends how many people you are planning to have on the server to.

I didnt know TS supported win98, good on them for doing it though.
 
No point. You are going to be limited by your upload. If you have an upload of 256k youll get a maximum of 4 -5 users in the server before it breaks up. Having a server dedicated to TS wont help one bit, you could run a server on your main rig.

For what its worth that money you are going to spend would be better put towards a rented Teamspeak.

But if you want a server up 24/7 with a couple of users on there then go for it.

Plus there are free TS channels out there you can use, much less hastle.
 
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I'd have a setup like that running on linux rather than 98. How long are you going to keep the server on each day?
 
Or find yourself a cheap dedicated server and install it on there, its actually cheaper then paying for a rented one.

Thats exactly what we did, and there's no limit to how many people you have on, though its usually always under 10 for us.
 
There are only going going to be 8 of us using it at a time maximum and I'll set the codec to celp51 and limit the users to 8.

As far as cost goes I should be able to do it for no more than £30.

It will be on 24/7.

My upload is 400kb on an NTL 4Mb connection. There should be plenty left for BF2142.

As for running linux on it, I have an old official copy of win98 and I'm more familiar with windows than linux.
 
200sx said:
Hi guys!

I'm thinking about building a rig with only one purpose in mind, to run Teamspeak server.

I need it to be silent and as cheap as possible.

I'm not comfortable having my main rig on 24/7 so I would be interested in your thoughts on the following:

VIA Epia Eden 600MHz fanless motherboard with onboard cpu.
A stick 256MB DDR2100.
A IDE to flash convertor (to use a 1GB compact flash card as an IDE drive).
Half-life2 collectors edition case (so it can blend in on the shelf amongst my other games).
A modified X-Box1 PSU.

It will be running an old copy of windows 98 sr1 as that's the minumum TS server will run on. An optical drive will only be temporarily conencted for the purpose of the install.

Can anyone see any problems with this? :p
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I've ran a Ventrilo server on a VIA Epia M6000 board (600MHz fanless) with 512Mb memory and it ran fine for a couple of users so I'd guess that should be fine though I am on NTL 10 Mb connection just now (was running Debian Sarge 3.1 as o/s). Can't imagine the programs would have much difference in requirements.

Have you thought about running Linux rather than Windows 98?
 
200sx said:
There are only going going to be 8 of us using it at a time maximum and I'll set the codec to celp51 and limit the users to 8.
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Last time I tried using Celp5.1 it sounded bloody awful.

I used to run a P3 800Mhz server in my garage for up to 10 people, your spec should be ok.
 
Forgot to mention.


Have you considered just paying for a TS host, it'll save you running the TS server and having it suck your bandwidth.

If you have 8+ people involved, see if they're prepared to pay ~£12 a year and you'll get a 10 seat server and you can get a webserver as part of it.

This is what I ended up doing. Much better for it too.
 
It'll be just fine. The main chunk of bandwidth is used when players actually speak. And as you already know, on a TS server most people only speak one or two at a time. Get your users to set a 'press to talk button' instead of leaving the mic open all the time. Also ask them to limit their own bandwidth in the TS client to help limit the overall bandwidth.
 
ns400r said:
Get your users to set a 'press to talk button' instead of leaving the mic open all the time. Also ask them to limit their own bandwidth in the TS client to help limit the overall bandwidth.
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Ours are a rowdy bunch of sods. :p Can't keep them quiet for more than 5 secs.
 
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Nahema said:
I'd have a setup like that running on linux rather than 98. How long are you going to keep the server on each day?
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Me too. W98's IP stack is not nearly as good. I think you'll also end up with greater uptime and greater remote management capabilities.
 
if you do give it a go and it dont work send me a email or pm and ill have a word with the rest of our ppl and if ya make a donation of some kind towards are full gaming then i can see why you cant have ya own room in our teamspeak.
 
200sx said:
There are only going going to be 8 of us using it at a time maximum and I'll set the codec to celp51 and limit the users to 8.

As far as cost goes I should be able to do it for no more than £30.

It will be on 24/7.

My upload is 400kb on an NTL 4Mb connection. There should be plenty left for BF2142.

As for running linux on it, I have an old official copy of win98 and I'm more familiar with windows than linux.
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Is that a business line then?..... i have the home one, and it does not go anywhere near 400kb upstream, its closer to 40kbps, which if maxed out will grind everything else, gaming, browsing, etc... to a halt.
 
t31os said:
Is that a business line then?..... i have the home one, and it does not go anywhere near 400kb upstream, its closer to 40kbps, which if maxed out will grind everything else, gaming, browsing, etc... to a halt.
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He ment 400k-bits per second, your thinking of bytes :p
 
ns400r said:
It'll be just fine. The main chunk of bandwidth is used when players actually speak. And as you already know, on a TS server most people only speak one or two at a time.
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Right, but when that happens, the server still has to send the mixed stream to _all_ connected clients. Download rate isn't really an issue on residential connections - everyone could speak at the same time and the performance would be the same because its upstream-limited.
 
I would advise spending that £30 on renting a TS server from somewhere, there must be somewhere cheap that can do it. Then at least you will be sure you wont get lag when you are trying to play.

But using the SD card as the hard drive is a neat idea, do you have anymore information on that? I fancy having a second silent PC with some components I have lying about but the hard drive would always produce the main noise, as did the PSU
 
xiphrex said:
But using the SD card as the hard drive is a neat idea, do you have anymore information on that? I fancy having a second silent PC with some components I have lying about but the hard drive would always produce the main noise, as did the PSU
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It's not a SD card, it's a Compact Flash card. CF cards can plug into IDE with the proper cable. There's nothing else toy have to do with it. It appears to the computer just as if it were a mechanical hard disk.
 
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