People joining

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:44 pm

On my server, some people get in fine, others join, and instantly leave, dont even pop in or shoot. Anybody know why? First I tried without UDP then with, same thing. A lil help?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:52 pm

what kind of connection are you on?

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:57 pm

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:03 pm

*sigh* what speeds man.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:11 pm

oh sorry

I dunno, why does that matter? not trying to argue or anything, your a patient guy and have to help about 1000 a day, its just why would some be able to and others not? They dont even get lag kicked ,its like if you enter a server with bots that dont allow them, and they just sign off.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:16 pm

if you don't have enough bandwith they could be going NR, due to not receving enough data, and timing out.

how many people play when this happens? and how much upstream bandwith do you have?

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:48 pm

But thats not whats happening

It doesnt say they go nr either. Some get in just fine, and some (most of them) just can't get in, I had 8 of 10 in a server last night, lots could join, but many joined and exited just like bots do :/

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:14 pm

probably just connection issues then.

Tegan · Post by **Tegan** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:11 am

Not sure but I think this is also the behavior in cases where matches are made by callsignfilter or bans (check if you have any bans on addresses containing range wildcards ('*')).

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:24 am

IP bans don't even let them connect. hostmastk bans and callsign things don't even let them spawn.

Post by **blast** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:13 pm

Here's some things that might cause players to get kicked/dropped:

UDP port of server is blocked and -requireUDP is used
Their username is registered, and they spawn without identifying (assuming REQUIREIDENTIFY for registered players)
Bandwidth is saturated (when they join, they see all other tanks go NR, and a few seconds later they drop)

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:57 pm

Either UDP or bandwidth then, cause it did that when I used, and when Iturned off UDP......is there a way to fix bandwith? or just get a new connection

?

Post by **blast** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:10 pm

Try setting a lower player/shot limit, and see if the issues continue. Also, what is your upstream bandwidth? (the speed your connection can send out at)

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:49 pm

I believe it's about 40kbps going out, and 1.5mbps coming in :/

And I think I'll change shots to 3 and only having 4-10 people (not including observers)

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:53 pm

40k would be very small, most common ones are 128k up or better. standard DSL in most places is 128 down 1.5 up.

you can use the speed tests at www.dslreports.com to test your speed.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:03 pm

so about how many could I host, give or take a few?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:04 pm

well give us your real speed, if it's 40K, I'm supriesed you get 1 person at all.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:56 pm

I dont really know, I think its higher...ya its higher I see now :/ but still..I think it might be at least 60kbps

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:32 am

go here

http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1

run the test. it'll tel you your speed.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:32 am

this is what I got

kbps
128
256
384
512
640
768
896
1024
ugh
«typical 56k modem download speed
bearable
«
ok
«
ok
«150k Video Stream
ok
«Fastest multiplayer games
ok
«192k 'near CD quality' MP3
ok
«300k Video Stream
broadband
«half megabit
Yours
«698 down
«289 up
(1mbit barrier not shown)
(2mbit barrier not shown)
(3mbit barrier not shown)
(5mbit barrier not shown)
=Your data speed = estimated TCP overhead popup more info

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:59 am

hmm 700 down 300 up, an odd combo it should run a couple people, basicly you've got about 6 dialups of bandwith, so I'd say about 4-5 people if they use DSL too. maybe 6-7 if you'r lucky.

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:27 pm

ok tanks! cya on the battlefield!