15 person LAN party server

[dmw16]

I was planning on serving a 15 person lan party on my 900mhz tbird w/ 448mb of RAM. We were planning on doing counter-strike, TFC, Day of Defeat, RTCW, UT, ect. Will I have enough power?
thanks,
-doug

 

[SilverBack]

Sure will, more than enough provided you dedicate the server and don't play on it.
We have LAN's all the time here, New Years Eve being the next.

If you want to keep performance on the network, you really need a 10/100 Switch.
It will keep the game smoother, otherwise you get a lot of packet collisions.

With 15 players on a 16 port switch , pings should be from 4 to 16 ms. (mostly just server adjustments)

 

[sMashPiranha]

That server is plenty powerful enough, and probably won't even utilise most of that ram just serving games. Some of those games e.g. all the Halflife mods and UT can be served from linux, which would need an even less powerful server. e.g. You can run a 16 player Halflife server under Linux on a P200 no problems. Once I even ran it on a P75, was kinda slow but it still ran.

 

[Shooters]

That will be plenty of power. I hear a general rule of thumb is 30MHz or processor speed and 10MB of RAM for each client computer when running a dedicated gaming server.

 

[Quad]

omg that's more than enough

at my lan parties we use my friends p2 233 with 64mb edo ram, running linux, as our dedicated server. it once ran 8 (yes eight) quakeworld servers and 2 ra3 servers with everyone getting <10 pings (dependent on fps of course)