bandwidth requirements

[zilikon]

Hello everyone I recently got a server with two Amd Opterons runing at 2.0gz each and 2 gigs of ram.

I would like to know what is the bandwidth require to host at least 20 players for CoD UO.

What should be the upload speed?
and the download speed???

any help is appreciated.. thank you.

[Rockmonster]

If you do a search on these forums, someone once posted the equation to figure all of that out. But if you do a little figuring you can estimate it. Just figure out what the max player rate that the server will allow and multiply it by 20. Conservatively I would say that you could make it work on a cable modem (definitely not dsl), but it would be a very laggy server. It would work but probably not be very much fun. Plus why buy your own maching and co-locate it somewhere if you are only going to run 1 game server. It is massive overkill and you will pay too much. So if you plan on running more than one game server on it, you can pretty much forget trying to do it from home.

[Glanzer]

Yes, what Rockmonster said.

And here's the post I think he was talking about: http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9034