Server Bandwidth Usage Test

Started by arramus, June 08, 2009, 07:38:37 PM

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arramus

A Q came up at Tripwire about bandwidth usage on a full KF server so I tested an application that monitors up and down usage. Here are the results.

An application like DU Meter can monitor your bandwidth and report back your up and down usage. It can report in kbps or KB/s as per your specifications. This app has a one month free trial. There may be others out there for free.

Anyway, in this picture running a 6 man server the report came back at:

Receiving: 14.5 KB/s (118.78 kbps)
Sending: 58.2 KB/s (476.77 kbps)
Peak: 60.3 KB/s (493.98 kbps)

At map change there will also be a large spike.

My KillingFloor.ini:

MaxClientRate=15000
MaxInternetClientRate=10000

In this test 5 players were joining from outside the LAN and I was playing via LAN.

If anyone else wants to report there findings with another application it'll help us compare.