Hi I was wondering if you were able to give me some sort of thumb rule for the transfer rate that should be given to each slot on a SoF2 dedicated game server. I understand that a few things can vary it from person to person but I was wondering what the average would be.

For Counter Strike: Source, Steam were able to give a thumb rule of 53.4Kbps for each player and was wondering if it was possible to get the same kind of thing for SoF2. Although I was told by a friend that SoF2 doesn't use the same amount of resources as CS:S but thats all I got to go on for now.

So If you knew where I could get that figure from it would help me a lot in my calculations for what kind of bandwidth usages I will use up and how big a line I would need for running the game server so people dont get lag.
Thank you

I was unable to find the link to the giud for figureing out what rate to setting to use..

How many slots do you want to run?

What kind of upload speed to you have available now?

Hi, thanks I was wanting a 16 / 18 slot sof2 game server.
The current company I am thinking of getting my dedicated server from offers a 100Kbps line with a 10GB Bandwidth limit  OR I can have a 512kbps line with a 160GB bandwidth limit.

For counter-Strike Source steam said that according to the 53.4kbs per player rule a 512kbps line would be able to take 9 players. That assumes you have a sv_minrate of 5000 and a sv_maxrate of  9999

Sorry to bring in another game into this but I just wanted to compare the two. But also knowing the average transfer rate would be helpful in the future.
But really I am just deciding if I need the 512kps slower line with more bandwidth or the 100Mbps line with less bandwidth.
Thanks

hmm,,, are there any companys that offer a 768 upload with no monthly limit?
I use speakeasy.net with their 6mb DL and 768k UL. I host an active 14 slot CS Source server off of it with a rate setting of 7000, no ingame voice comms. Some people biscuit eater about lagg sometimes, but I think some of it is rom their end as others don't get the lagg.

SoF2 with the above settings and and upload you might get away with an 16-18 slot server.