Hi Everyone.
ok I have the worst upstream anyone has ever seen.
however everyone seems to have good pings.
My Upstream is a sucky 120Kbps-180Kbps
most of the time its 150 up to 180, but it does drop to 120.
anywho, I have the server setup for six players and has always played well, so well infact it normaly stays full.
my server specs are
Intel PII400 OC to 450
now at 160MB ram, was at 256 but I need the extra for another system.
has a 20GB HD ATA66
Crappy Riva TNT 16MB AGP card
only runs one server,
I also have Two NIC's installed but I am only using the one for SOF2, Router is setup and configured for port forwarding Router is a Linksys BEFSR41 with the latest flash.
I am only running Windows 98SE on this box also.
ok like I said at six players it runs great, (runs in only Command line mode)
Now if I go with seven players still fine, once I hit eight players it plays great still everyone with under 100Ping.
however after about ten minutes or more, boom.
Everyone (but those on the lan, just me) Lag out.
and sometimes I even have to cycle the cable modem to bring back my internet. I have 128+Kbps up and 1+Mbps down.
I am guessing it is either my sucky upstream or my system isnt good enough.
Any thoughts or sugestions?
now remember it runs fine for ten minutes or so.
and it always happens I can even crank it to 10 players
and I have seen it last for a half hour but it always happens.
again is only lags out the Internet Players.
-L_P

It all depends on the MAX RATE you allow.

Meanning the higher it is the more bandwidth
you allow each person.

With that upload I would expect you to be
able to play with 10 peeps no problem.

Try your max rate at something like 3000.

Are you also playing on this system?

It's your upload no doubt. I don't see you running a 10 player on that. Your maxrate is low enough as it is.
Really not much memory in there either tho. Especially with the memory leaks associated with 98.

Here is the funny thing,
at LAN parties the server works fine with sixteen people.
however at lan parties there isnt the router or my cable mode.
this is why I thought it was my upstream speed.
3000 bit rate is about 3Kbps of speed,
3Kbps x six players would be 180Kbps so that would be my max. but what I cant figure out is why at ten players it runs fine for a period of time until everyone lags out.
so I am sure its my upstream, it was just that one thing that made me think otherwise. as for memory.
you can run SOF2 on a P200 with 64MB of ram and have ten players run fine on a lan system. but that is only in command line mode and not running anything else. however the server is getting a upgrade soon, Dual PIII 1Ghz. and 1GB of ram and Win 2K advance server. this upgrade will be comming in two months, at the same time my main rig I use is getting some new parts. so maybe then I will think about a diffrent ISP.
or maybe calling them and asking when they are going to allow larger upstream packages.
ah who knows. for the time being it works fine. I guess I just wanted to make sure I wasnt insane.
-L_P