[wplug] game server network requirements?

[adam stokes]

this is just babble but hey

a few years ago a tier 3 DSL was hundreds cheaper than a T1....now it 
depends on where you are
T1 starts from certain telco offices and then you pay by the 
foot.....for me its $1000 a month compared to $300 for the same 
potential with DSL (remembering that i overbuy the DSL since its 
bandwidth is theoretical)

i have heard of T1's for as little as $260....but i am not sure that is 
a local thing

colo's are less money and burstable
but you might find one with a deal that you have to ship the server 
to....
some of those are fine.....i am going to send off a pair of 1U's to 
serverlogistics(.com) when i saturate my DSL
and i have talked to the guy and a friend of mine that moved out there 
so i am not too scared

cogent has a datacenter in pittsburgh 
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=29039
i met two of the guys that got assimilated with the datacenter and they 
were cool
downside is that  they are going to sell you a rack at a time for $1000 
a month
http://www.psi.net/

  last year the psi division was significantly less of a deal than 
cogents own...i would have to get out last years papers to know if one 
went up or the other went down

also....there are places that rent virtual servers for gaming, but i 
dont have any idea at all what the quality would be

hope something in there was useful
-adam

On Jan 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Zachary Uram wrote:

> Some of my friends and I are considering each donating a nominal amout
> each month to run our own game server for a game that we play, netrek,
> and I'm not sure how much this would cost. I was told by a netop the
> server should be able to provide a steady 1 MB/sec upstream rate and
> same for downstream though that can vary a bit more. A typical game
> has 16 players with 8 to 16 observers. Game uses UDP by default but
> some users forced to use TCP. Would 1 MB/s SDSL be sufficient? What is
> price difference between that and a T1 line? What about frame relay? I
> imagine that is much pricier. We can run server ourselves or do remote
> admin through co-located farm - whichever is cheapeast!
>
> Zach
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