how can i save bandwith

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:14 am

well i can say my server is on "low bandwith" compared to alot of others, besides raising the sendq is there any other ways to save bandwith/squeeze more users with low bandwith?

and also, does unreal use upload or download bandwith to run?

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:35 am

It uses both upload and download, think about it. It has to send messages to clients and recieve messages.

As for saving bandwidth, well, apart from kicking people off, I cant think of any methods.

codemastr · Post by **codemastr** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:45 pm

Uhh, raising the sendq, if anything, increases bandwidth usage, not lowers it. I don't know who told you otherwise, though in most situations, it will have absolutely no effect.

As for how to use less bandwidth, if you have multiple servers, use ziplinks. Other than that, the only way you can really do that is to have less users. The more users you have, the more text sent, the more bandwidth used.

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:39 pm

Could just tell people to idle

lol, I can imagine some REALLY funny conversations based on this:
** You have now joined #mainnetworkchannel
<Owner> Can you all be quiet please?
<person1> Why?
<Owner> BECAUSE YOU ARE COSTING ME BANDWIDTH!
** Owner sets mode +m #mainnetworkchannel

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:45 pm

sendq specifies the amount of data which can be in the send queue (very high for servers with low bandwidth, medium for clients)

Doesnt that mean put a very high number for servers with low bandwidth?

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:55 am

is that right?

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:45 am

If I'm right, sendq is how much data CAN be sent to clients. So by raising it, you raise the potential data that can be sent to and from them. Therefore raising your b/w requirments. Feel free to correct me, codemastr.

Post by **Syzop** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:03 am

sendq = send queue
so yes, it can potentially send MORE data.
Thing is: on low bandwidth servers the server might ('will') not be able to send all data at once, so it will use the queue a lot. On fast servers this is less the case since the data can be sent at once.
That's the idea at least.
It's especially relevant for server<->server links since in such a case for a slow link a lot of data (read: several megabytes) might get queued.

Anyway, as you can see this has little to do with "bandwidth saving"... Since if you set it too low and the limit is exceeded the user is disconnected, so it's not exactly user friendly :P. Well.. if all your users quit with 'sendq exceeded' you might have less traffic indeed ;)

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:09 am

lmao, I've only ever managed to get that error once... and that was when I was pasting some sourcecode in.

Solutech · Post by **Solutech** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:57 am

lol my kittens have triggered sendq a few times . Why do they feel the need to sleep on keyboards? .