Bandwidth Needed to Host

[The *SBS* Doc]

Do any of you know what amount of bandwidth is required per player when hosting a game?

ie. How big should your connection be to be able to host an 8, 16 player game? etc.

 

[Barking_Mad3]

i dont know exactly but i can host about 6 on my 512/240 adsl before they lag, thats with sv_maxrate set to 8000 ish

 

[thedaddy2003]

Yep you need a healthy connection, which the UK currently dont provide Try living in sweden with there standard 10mb connection both ways (HOW NICE). 6 peeps is the same for me on 256 upload, even if you had 1 or 2mb upload. You have to be aware of contention ratio, which means at peak times your BW can vary. For example you have 2mb up, then at 7pm every ones online your Upload could drop to as lil as 60k up. Read the small print on your ISP, its not going to be for some years that we will see dedicated home run servers. Oh and yes thank the government theres no rush to up the upload, there holding us back like always.