Multiuser - ballpark figures?

On 11/28/06, Gene Endrody wrote:
>"I was doing some rough numbers for someone earlier
in the year, and 
>I was estimating more like half that per user."
>
>Wait - per user? The numbers I quoted are actual
bandwith for the 
>server all month from all users.....incoming and
outgoing. The 
>number of people allowed in a room will greatly affect
your 
>bandwidth.

bytes per user per second.
Multiply by estimated numbers of users per server

>Gene
>
>
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>>On 11/28/06, Gene Endrody wrote:
>>>MS Windows 2003 Web Edition Athlon Powerline
2600 from 
>>>ServerBeach.com (I have three game servers)
>>>
>>>Server Beach charges me about $180 per server
per month - no 
>>>hardware firewall server
>>>1gb memory on the machine - but not really a
major concern
>>>
>>>The latency difference between my Athlon 2200
game server and the 
>>>two 2600s is noticable under high traffic
>>>
>>>TankBall - Shooter
>>>Sherwood Dungeon - MMORPG
>>>MoonBase and Marian's World - Avatar Chatrooms
>>>
>>>Simutaneous Users- about 1700 peak per server
but average 600-700
>>>100mbit connection
>>>
>>>Standard Shockwave Multiuser Server - most
messages sent as system 
>>>script, but minor processing only on the server
side - anti hacker 
>>>measures only.
>>>
>>>Clients send messages every 700-900 ms
>>>Close to 1800-2000gb of bandwith per month
>>really?
>>I was doing some rough numbers for someone earlier
in the year, and 
>>I was estimating more like half that per user.
>>Do you have pretty much just one sort of client
update packet, or 
>>are you doing any sort of packet size optimization?
>>Just wondering...
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