How to setup your own personal server PC for Counter-Strike?

[bmxjokerman21]

I am a regular gamer at CS. Me and my friends would like to setup our own server. We have a computer with some of the requirements that I have found in other forums. I am wondering when I get all the requirements for a server, I have no clue what to do after that. I would like to know how to start a dedicated server, information about how to get and use admin or amx for my server, how to setup stats, and finally any other that a beginning server user/builder for Counter-Strike will need. Any information will be helpful.

 

[bmxjokerman21]

also what kind of internet woudl work good with like a 12-16 man server

 

[BlueWeasel]

Most residential broadband access will be severely limited on the upload side (usually 256k or 384kbps) and that's a killer for any medium sized FPS game server.

If you're serious about it, I'd consider renting some space from one of the big game server providers.

 

[Jeff7181]

Yeah... your upstream bandwidth will be the limiting factor. With regular Counter-Strike, not Source, I could host an 8 person server with my 256k upstream. Pings would start to increase when more than 4 people (besides me on my LAN) were connected though. Source is even more demanding, so I'd guess that you could host a 4-6 person server with 256k upstream.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

but is there a guide on how it could be possible to set this up...for source? I wanna find out so i can go from there

 

[jfall]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=189717