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I might be able to produce something. what requirements do we have with regards to hardware / software and bandwidth?
Preferbly a linux box of some sort, A pentium 100~what ever you have lol, 32MB Ram + and as much bandwith as you can offer 512kbits~10Mbits :)
hm, I might have a dual PIII-box with a 1GiB of RAM on a 100Mbit pipe somewhere. I'll see about it.
Also, keep in mind that TS is only as good as it's weakest link. What I mean by that is you can only set the channel quality to a speed/quality that your lowest client connection can handle. We have a dial up or two in our guild and I use Speex 7.2 kbit on our main VO channel, and the quality is still pretty good, even when they are gaming and on.
So you don't need a super fast connection to have a TS server for a small to medium size guild. I do have a couple channels that use a much higher rate, as the users of that channel all have broadband of some sort. Even at 16.3 kbit my cable connection handles several connections at once at that channel just fine.
If you are thinking of doing a VO wide TS server, I'd go with the 7.3 codec or lower, for those dial up users. At that rate you can handle a few dozen client connections easily on a cable connection. (I'm basing this off of my 384Kb upstream on my cable.) This is also basing this off of one channel. Each channel you have can potentially reduce that number in half each time, if each channel has someone talking on it at once. Using MRTG I track how much bandwidth I'm actually using when I am in TS with several buddies on a good quality channel. I rarely hit 90Kbit, on one of my VO channels where the quality is lower due to modem users, I'm lucky if I hit 75Kbits.
Also, that Dual PIII can easily handle the TS server, It's all bandwidth, no real system resources. The requirements are a 166 Mhz processor with 64 MB of ram. Once TS3 comes out, my old G3 500 will be handling my TS Server.
So you don't need a super fast connection to have a TS server for a small to medium size guild. I do have a couple channels that use a much higher rate, as the users of that channel all have broadband of some sort. Even at 16.3 kbit my cable connection handles several connections at once at that channel just fine.
If you are thinking of doing a VO wide TS server, I'd go with the 7.3 codec or lower, for those dial up users. At that rate you can handle a few dozen client connections easily on a cable connection. (I'm basing this off of my 384Kb upstream on my cable.) This is also basing this off of one channel. Each channel you have can potentially reduce that number in half each time, if each channel has someone talking on it at once. Using MRTG I track how much bandwidth I'm actually using when I am in TS with several buddies on a good quality channel. I rarely hit 90Kbit, on one of my VO channels where the quality is lower due to modem users, I'm lucky if I hit 75Kbits.
Also, that Dual PIII can easily handle the TS server, It's all bandwidth, no real system resources. The requirements are a 166 Mhz processor with 64 MB of ram. Once TS3 comes out, my old G3 500 will be handling my TS Server.