How much bandwidth...

Anarchy · Posted: Oct 29, 2007 1:42am Post subject:

when i was running a network, ive always had way better luck on my own servers then renting out a server.

pawlicki · none Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 27

PS. The dual Xeon 3Ghz with 2TB ram and 200000000000GB Of monthly bandwidth that you're promised is a sales pitch. You would be lucky if you get a Xeon machine working for you, and believe me, on most hositng companies, it would be shared between thousands of users.

Any linux box above 100Mhz is more than enough to keep 400+ users. (x server turned off of course, all cli) on irc.

I also agree withthe guy above me: i would rather run my own then rent.

Anarchy · Posted: Oct 29, 2007 11:09pm Post subject:

Renting out servers is pretty stupid if you ask me, most hosting companys are on DLS and Cable these days. claiming to be on t1 t3 connections. i had 1500 people on a cable connection, hosting my own web site, with web chats and forums, never lagged. i had over 2 year up time on a cable connection, and windows 2003 and windows 2000 running IRCx servers.

Lord_Diablo · Posted: Nov 06, 2007 12:53pm Post subject:

Hmmm... even a warez net doesnt use THAT much bandwhitdh, when i first started I was saying the same thing, but in truth, IRC doesnt use that much bandwhitdh. Safe not to have to many users on each server, the text bit probally doesnt matter much, unless you do have 837489326473264 warez bots running at all times. (Which is a complete waste of server space anyway)

But in overall, you probally dont need 2kgb worth the bw. As for providers, !@#$'d if i know. They all suck now =P

greg27 · Lurker Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 119 Location: Australia

why would a warez network use more bandwidth than any non-warez net with the same user count? dcc is direct client to client, hence data transferred doesn't go through the irc server.

ircmojo · Posted: Nov 08, 2007 4:37pm Post subject:

Keiji · Newbie Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 66

Katlyn · none Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 28

ircmojo · Posted: Nov 14, 2007 2:33pm Post subject:

That's funny, DALnet is running 35k users and uses 300kbps. Why is your load so high?

bubblez6000 · Newbie Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 59

Most likely it is the IRCd that is taking up the bandwidth as I know where Katlyn comes from they are currently using Unreal3.2 as I don't often visit dalnet only been there once I do not know what they are currently using

ircmojo · Posted: Nov 14, 2007 3:43pm Post subject:

Bahamut. It's a no frills IRCd, unlike UnrealIRCd.

Anarchy · Posted: Nov 30, 2007 5:49am Post subject: Re: How much bandwidth...

Katlyn · none Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 28

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1029

not that it matters anyway Katlyn, the porn doesn't pass over your server anyway .. so nevermind the clueless post.

The ONLY thing IRC has to do with DCC is establishing the connection .. period .. end of story .. we are talking a few bits of data. ALL the bandwidth required to send movies/warez/porn is handles by the CLIENT not the server. Thats why it's called a Direct CLIENT Connection.

Those that think that a 500MB warez file uses 500MB of the servers resources is grossly misinformed as it takes the exact same amount of data to send a 1k file as it does a 1TB file as far as the irc server is concerned.