Setting my server to 14 players.

[dazerrackers]

I had my max rate set a 3500 and max players set at 12.
Someone said to me if i set the max rate to 3000 and put the players 14-16 it will work and not ping them. Is this true yes or no?

[rudedog]

To determine what to set your max rate at check out my guide at:

http://www.mohadmin.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=18

you need to know two things. number of players and what your upload speed is.

Once you know these two, you can do the math to determine your maxrate.

[HankScorpio]

dazerrackers, what kind of connection do you have? Is it dialup?

The real question is what is the ideal rate to player ratio. With MOHAA it was 500 per player so if you had a 16 player server, you'd use a maxrate of 8000, 16000 for 32, etc...

I guess we can assume the bandwidth per player in CoD is similar to MOHAA. Ideally, it'd probably be best to experiment to find that ideal number. The readme for the game states playing on dialup should be limited to 8-player servers. Assuming a dialup rate of 5000, that means the rate per player ratio is 625.
Given this, sv_maxrate for a 16-player server should be 10000, 20000 for 32, etc...