Soften home server capacity claim and remove specific example#1134
Soften home server capacity claim and remove specific example#1134mcfnord wants to merge 1 commit intojamulussoftware:next-releasefrom
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The "eg 10 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up" example was tied to a specific connection speed that may not reflect current typical home broadband. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I had 1 Mbit/s up until last year and it never hosted more than 1 or 2 successfully! |
| Usually, problems are on the _Client_ side and should be fixed there. Have a look at the [Troubleshooting page](/wiki/Client-Troubleshooting) if needed. | ||
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| However, various problems can also arise when setting up Servers - especially when run on a low-bandwidth home connection. It's usually fine to have less than 5 players on a slower-speed home connection (eg 10 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up). You can read more about network requirements at [different quality settings here](Server-Bandwidth). | ||
| However, various problems can also arise when setting up Servers - especially when run on a low-bandwidth home connection. It can work fine to have less than 5 players on a slower-speed home connection. You can read more about network requirements at [different quality settings here](Server-Bandwidth). |
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can, maybe might should appear here. I see hosting at home as the Achilles Heel of the whole technology. Many people start there, thinking they really want or need to, and many of those people have a bad experience, due to upstream speed or even wireless residential bottlenecks.
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I tend to agree -- we shouldn't really suggest less than 2Mbps each way per client. With 4.0.0, we'll need to up that, too - the Max Quality work will need to make it clear what the Server needs.
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The introduction of wireless residential seems to throw a lot of the traditional throughput arithmetic out the window. We're conflating capacity with consistent timeliness and in my experience this breaks down often in residential scenarios. We might suggest avoiding hosting a server on a wireless connection altogether, and we might suggest that fiber is fine for hosting at home.
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Yes - agreed: hosting on wireless ... words fail me.
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(This came from discussion at #1133.)
The "eg 10 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up" example was tied to a specific connection speed that doesn't reflect current home broadband pitfalls, such as wireless connections.
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