Private Hive Bandwidth Utilization?

[jackcrow 129]

So been working on getting my private Lingor up and running, hive is running locally. I going to get ready to start testing with connected players before it goes live and I think a 20 slot will be the limit. I was curious what do you guys see on "average" each connected player using bandwidth wise? I know there are contributing factors, but lets just say what is the average with someone that has a decent connection?

[icomrade 201]

The only way to tell for real is use the performance manager to look at network utilization by the mysql and ArmA II OA Server processes. Take an average of a couple readings at the same interval, I.e. 3 readings @ 10 minutes then average them together.

Of course server performance will be relative to your WAN connection speed/bandwidth, any less than I'd say 1.5-2Mbps for a 20 slot server would be laggy or cause a lot of desync. Also make sure the server has a good processor.

P.s. synthetic bandwidth benchmarks/ speed tests will yield results that may be influenced by things like a speed boost (if you ISP gives one), for home internet this is common and you should look on your ISP's website (or contact support) for actual speeds without any speed boost.

Edited September 21, 2012 by icomrade

[jackcrow 129]

The only way to tell for real is use the performance manager to look at network utilization by the mysql and ArmA II OA Server processes. Take an average of a couple readings at the same interval, I.e. 3 readings @ 10 minutes then average them together.

Of course server performance will be relative to your WAN connection speed/bandwidth, any less than I'd say 1.5-2Mbps for a 20 slot server would be laggy or cause a lot of desync. Also make sure the server has a good processor.

P.s. synthetic bandwidth benchmarks/ speed tests will yield results that may be influenced by things like a speed boost (if you ISP gives one), for home internet this is common and you should look on your ISP's website (or contact support) for actual speeds without any speed boost.

Thank you for the response. Ideally we will have close to a 20Mbps pipe for this 20 slot server. Upwards of 50Mbps after 6pm PST after the rest of the building leaves for the day or the weekend. But I see a lot 100Mbps recommendations and I just dont see how an individual server would require that much bandwidth, especially with a local hive.

[peep 46]

You'll be fine with what you have.

[Woodo 20]

With a 20 slot server I do about 7-8 gig of upload a day.

If your going to be running it from your home network you'll have problems when you reach 15-20 players, lag will go through the roof...

[Jvo 18]

Woodo your kind of right I technically run from my home network but I have business grade internet and I have had over 40 players on my hive with little to no lag.

[jackcrow 129]

For those of you that are interested in what I was looking for, here are my results:

Bandwidth utilization on the interface seems to be around 500Kbps for the first two connections, but only jumps up to 1Mbps with 5 connections. I don't see any real pattern of incremented utilization, but I can definitely say that with 10 connections I was only pushing about 5Mbps on the interface. But what you need to watch out for is the spike that happens when a connection/player quits. I was seeing 1-2Mbps spikes which I can only attribute to the client shoving data down the pipe for MySQL to write. When a player connects I only see an extremely low spike and it doesn't last longer than a moment, but when a player leaves it can take close to 40 seconds before the spike drops. We did see a little bit of lag here and there if more than one player left at the same time, but funny enough not all players experienced it. Hope this helps anyone wanting to know.