My Emu

[John Adams]

I've had up to 12 players on my server, blowing stuff up for hours, and aside from the old reposte zone crashes we used to get, I never saw a blip in my utilization. I was on Cox at the time, so you know 492 people in a 50 mile radius were probably all going through one switch - stingy pricks.

I "supposedly" have thie vDSL now - talking likr 52mb down. I have yet to see a download rate that even comes close to that... so I think all these providers are full of shit. Best way to tell is to just run it. If/when you run out of bandwidth, upgrade. They'll love taking more money, believe me.

[techguy84]

I went off someone else saying 5kb per person. I have never really dove into this to confirm it, or find a accurate measure. That would seem about right though 1.5 up would hold around 150 at 5 per person, if you got 180 then 2-3 seems more right.

The moral of this story is, dont get that cheap old 19.99 month internet. Unless your unpopular and nobody plays with you, shoot for good broadband.

[CrabClaw]

The EQ client is limited to 5k (like the max rate on a 28.8kbps modem line), unless you edit your datarate.txt to set it to a maximum of 10k. 'Back in da' day' I used to play EQ on dialup, and then switched to something better later, and the hard-cap was still there.