MP bandwidth requirements for hosting?

[MadTommy]

Has anyone got an knowledge about hosting a MP server and the required bandwidth requirements per client?

I assume this figure will be somewhat depentant upon the complexity & size of the mission being run.

My connection is crap.. the side effects of living in the beautiful countryside!



How many clients do you think i could host?

Thanks.

[baffa]

The system requirements says 128 kpbs upstream for online play, but I don't know if those figures are for hosting a game.

Setup a server and see how it goes or measure the traffic with some traffic monitoring software.

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by baffa

Setup a server and see how it goes or measure the traffic with some traffic monitoring software.

Yeah, cheers. Was just wondering if anyone had a handle on it.

If its like DCS i could host for about 4 players for a 'real' mission. My interest is in real missions using the full map. Not death match on the mini MP maps.

[LeadFarmer]

20 people will need about 2 Mbps up.
That is whats happening on mine.

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by LeadFarmer

20 people will need about 2 Mbps up.
That is whats happening on mine.

hmmm that means each player is using 100kbits which is triple from the original IL2 , I think that it will be more like 60kbits per player will be needed when setting up a dedicated server.
The original IL2 said 64kb now they say 128 which is double but there were people who could play on a 56k dial up so I am going to stick with the assumption that we will just have to double the bandwidth from what the original IL2 game needed, which was 32kbit per player for me to run a 20 man server.

leadfarmer u should be able to host about 30 players provided your PC can handle it.

[MadTommy]

Thanks for the input, helpful.

[LeadFarmer]

Yes, it set to 42 players I can host for more like 60-70 with the dedicated server.

[LeadFarmer]

Its amazing how little bandwith IL2 1946 uses

[ATAG_Bliss]

I have the game installed on our dedicated machine. I'm in the middle east right now, so no chance of me playing it.

The dedicated machine has 1000mbps (1 gig per second) upload/download bandwidth and is a 12 core xeon with 48 gigs of DDR3. I'd gladly host something for you guys if A.) someone hooks me up with a mission and B.) tells me how to start the server software to do so.

Mind you - this will be full realism CEM on etc, no icons, but I will leave the 2 handed control option off as many have reported several bugs with it.

Edit: And yes it will be set to 128 players.

[LeadFarmer]

Bliss you know you have the option of starting a new topic on that dont you>?