Oleg shared some REAL NEWS today

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

I will surely see you there El - and I fully intend to enjoy BOTH sides Hoping to see it "Raining Pigs" in a good way! Look forward to visiting and having fun with you on comms. Tell Bury hello for me, if you see him.

Thanks for the info Bliss. Last year I upgraded my bandwidth, since our TX beta subteam was assigned intial work in MP - and set up a small server for a while (way before 1.012 Dogfight/CTF modes). I put net montitors on to measure bandwidth exchanges between server and clients - and analyzed months worth of data like this. I've always been amazed at SYN ability to host the large number of clients that you do.

My maximum load ever was 16 - with the server delivering best performance at 12. This of course was with me as client on a second machine physically connected to my server (router) when I wanted to fly on it. My sustained upload bandwidth was only about 8 mbs.

With all that said about ROF bandwidth requirements - I have never flown any sim with less lag and warp to servers in Russia (and I'm in Austin TX).

I'm dying to see what Oleg pulls off with SOW. I'm sure we'll all be blown away.

I gave up my server ambitions because I can get everything I need at the Syndicate - and if I'm in a mood to just kill/be killed/practice shooting - I can go over to J99. The noobs have a few of their own servers with easier settings - which is a good and important niche.

Sometimes I get the urge to go check the training servers out - but I have this fear that someone will see me there and think me a pedophile

A community only needs as many qualtiy servers as it can fill. I learned this lesson in ROF.

Hope I did not derail the thread too badly.

S!

Gunny