Yet another "How much players can my server hold?"

[Andeby]

Hi there! You're probably tired of all the "How many players ..." threads, but I really need to know and I don't have the time to look through all these threads and find a PC and bandwith similar as mine!
Here's the PC speccs:

2.5GB RAM
2.2GHz CPU
about 75GB free HDD to use

Bandwith: about 5mB/s up, I think. (Can't know for sure 'cus rigt now I only have about 500kB/s up, but 5mB/s is when I make my server public)

And I'm sorry for yet another one of these threads! +rep to best answer.
Edit: I forgot to mention that the CPU is single core, but the only things that'l be running is ascent-logon.exe, ascent-world.exe and usual Windows XP stuff (If I don't install either Linux or Windows Server)

[Le Froid]

Educated guesses

MaNGOS (with lag): 700-950
Ludmilla (lag): 100-300
Ascent (MUCH lag): 1000-1200

MaNGOS (no lag): 700-750
Ludmilla (no lag): 50-150
Ascent (no lag): 700ish

Restarter advised if you do above

[WiKKiD]

It'll run fine.

The biggest things are Ram and Bandwidth.

You've got enough ram to run a pretty good system, would be better in linux than windows, obviously.

And, bandwidth... 500kB/s is pretty good, 5mB/s will be more than enough to host a fairly active server. I'd guess 500ish people without issue.

Single core processor shouldn't be an issue, the server isn't very cpu intensive.

(This is purely for Ascent, I don't use Mangos)

[Andeby]

Whoa! I was thinking more like 80 people with lag! I'd never guess it could hold that much! I'll rep both of ya, 'cus I just got happy

[2dgreengiant]

you need good cpu as well as ran but yea 500 - 600 will not lag and have between 20ms and 200ms

[Spartansp]

better host maximum 550 people with 600 you will get to much lag... and also you will count your GMs appropiatly 1 GM for each 30 people...

[Andeby]

I think I'm gonna go for 600. I was starting to get tired of wating for the stuff I need to host the server but when I saw this, I got excited again! It just didn't sound so fun hosting a server with about 80 players, but with a lot of players it sound much more fun!
Edit: 550 sounds fair

[latruwski]

I think I'm gonna go for 600. I was starting to get tired of wating for the stuff I need to host the server but when I saw this, I got excited again! It just didn't sound so fun hosting a server with about 80 players, but with a lot of players it sound much more fun!
Edit: 550 sounds fair

note: it aint easy getting 500 or more players to your server :yuck:

grtz

[Aldaus]

Its even hard getting past 50, xD