RE: [GD-General] Bandwidth

[CAVEY G. <GER...@sg...>]

>Memory is fuzzy, but here I go. Praetorians (RTS using standard fare=20
>lock-step multiplayer) peaked at about 8K/s on a server with 8 players =

>(server collects input packets from all clients and resends them to =
every=20
>client, 5 times per second). Well, higher than that if all players =
decide
to=20
>start frantically banging their keyboards / mice. Average bandwidth =
would
be=20
>much lower because the low frequency of commands during actual =
gameplay,
but=20
>we never bothered checking it; perhaps 2-3K/s.

Well i guess your engine was using TCP , right?
No need to test to say that UDP games will consume much more.

GC.


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