Server Admins: Bandwidth usage of UT server

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Ok, I am looking into getting a dedicated server for my websites and since they don't use up much CPU or bandwidth (like 30 hits a day combined lol) I wanted to try running a UT server :D

Anyhow, can you tell me approx how much bandwidth a public server (read: one that is in constant use 5vs5 - 2 spec spots). The server I am looking at come packaged with 25gig/month bandwidth. Is this enough? or do UT servers take up considerably more than that?

thanks!
 
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Rhere's been several discussions about this on the admin list, and from what I remember a 12-16 player server will consume anywhere from 150-300 GB/month combined in/out if it's populated more or less 24/7.

I'll try to find the posts, but I guess 25 GB/month won't be anywhere close to handle it anyway :/.
 
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Here's a calculation done by Jason Fielder, admin of the Retribution servers, posted to the admin list a while ago...

I run DUMeter and can monitor real-time the up and down transfer data...

Deck16 Server
Ranked top3 weekly & quarterly of 160,000 servers
Average just over 100games/day
Average 13 players per game

Face Server
Ranked 37 weekly & quarterly of 77,000 servers
Average 40games/day
Average 17 players per game

In a 13.25 hr time span, I up about 8.2835gigs and down 6.1217gigs. Assuming
everything's on averages and doing the math, per month I up 450gigs and down
332.65gigs. I'm on a burstable OC3 connection running through my 8port
10baseT hub. Bandwidth usually isn't a problem, hardware's usually maxed out
before bandwidth. Right now only running a dual XEON 400 1MB cache.
Click to expand...
Guess you should be able to work out a pretty accurate usage for your playerload based on that.
 
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I honestly have no idea how much it uses:eek:. I also don't know what our usable limits on our T1 are, but our ISP hasn't come banging on our door.

I only run The Web on weeks and evenings. The server is down from 8am to 5pm M-F (GMT -6:00). And there's not a lot of play on it when there's not a match scheduled

OK re-reading this I realize this doesn't help a bit.:(
 
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hehe.. well my server comes with CPanel installed. It shows bandwidth used for the month. Now, I don't know if just shows web/ftp traffic, or if it shows ALL traffic.

If it shows all, I will just note the "used amount" before a game.. then host a 20 minute 5on5 and note the used amount after :)

if it doesn't show it, then I can note the time the game was played and call venturesonline and maybe they can tell me :)
 
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i wish there was such thing as running a server for lots of people on a tiny connection. it would rock :D but its not possible, and damn that is a lotta bandwidth. damn......
 
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