Talk:Bandwidth Requirements
e.g.: 32 players: 5Mb/s
5 Mb/s up or down ? Normally people use connections with a (relative) fast down rate but a slow up rate. So what is meant exactly ?
For Battlefield 2 and other game servers, upload speed is quite important. Since the server needs to constantly send each player data, there is a lot of uploading going on. Prediction algorithims and such on the server side allows it to not heavily rely on player upload speeds. Like you pointed out, most people don't have a very high upload speed, but they can play just fine because the player is not uploading as much data as he's downloading. That being said, the best connection types for servers tend to be connections like T3s, because they generally have the same upload and download speed, so instead of just a fast download speed you get a fast upload speed as well. I could be wrong, so maybe someone who knows a bit more could give a better explanation. --King of Camelot 10:08, 16 Aug 2005 (MDT)
..Could someone clarify this? I have a 512down 256up broadband connection. Not sure how I can be sucking 60k+ from the BF2 server, as 60K is my absolute max and I'm playing with pings of 25 so my connection is probably not saturated.
I think your answer is in your question: BF2 needs 60-80 kb/s, and your connection has 512 kb/s down and 256 kb/s up. . . so you have plenty of bandwidth to play the game. If you tried running a server on your connection, though, you'd be dead in the water after 3-4 people connected to it. --Woody 11:45, 23 Aug 2005 (MDT)
BF2 bandwidth usage on client is around 11 kB/s inbound and 4 kB/s outbound based on my measurements.
--Graag42 23:25, 14 June 2007 (MDT)
Very cool! Now does someone have a similar set of charts for a server, showing both bandwidth and number of connected players? --Woody 08:32, 15 June 2007 (MDT)
