Can anyone calculate how much bandwith this needs? - GoFuckYourself.com

Fred Quimby · 09-12-2005, 03:47 PM

Age of Empires 3 was just released today and it has already been downloaded over 1/2 million times at 365 megs a pop.

What kind of friggin bandwith are we talking about?

http://www.ageofempires3.com/

fuzzypeach · 09-12-2005, 03:56 PM

Quick head math says 180,000GB thus far!

Ycaza · 09-12-2005, 04:00 PM

really depends on how big the pipes are and how many servers there are. I built the large gamespy network a few years ago and this is how it breaks down basically. your average company looks at it like 200 KBps per customer. thats 2 Mbps basically.if they are totally full then they need huge pipe. thats 500 customers per gigabit pipe. we used to do 3 gigabit pipes for gamespy so 1500 hi speed users could download simultaneously. obviously gamespy was not the only source and all of those sevices have queing built in to their servers. thats way free customers have to wait.at 2 megs the download a little better than this calculation 200 KBps x 5 is 1 megabyte every 5 seconds x 365 is equal to 1825 seconds divided by 60 is 30 minutes per user. 30 minutes per user in a 24 hout day 400 users per hour x 24 or 9600 downloads per service. hope that helps

sevent1 · 09-12-2005, 07:25 PM

The game looks good ..i will give it a try

Rob · 09-12-2005, 07:29 PM

Topic but off topic; I was a huge fan of AOE and this one looks good.

I can already see my production levels dropping....

09-12-2005, 03:47 PM	#1
Fred Quimby Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 5,430	Can anyone calculate how much bandwith this needs? Age of Empires 3 was just released today and it has already been downloaded over 1/2 million times at 365 megs a pop. What kind of friggin bandwith are we talking about? http://www.ageofempires3.com/ __________________

09-12-2005, 03:56 PM	#2
fuzzypeach Confirmed User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 392	Quick head math says 180,000GB thus far! __________________ Sig too big!

09-12-2005, 04:00 PM	#3
Ycaza Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: the 805 Posts: 4,290	really depends on how big the pipes are and how many servers there are. I built the large gamespy network a few years ago and this is how it breaks down basically. your average company looks at it like 200 KBps per customer. thats 2 Mbps basically.if they are totally full then they need huge pipe. thats 500 customers per gigabit pipe. we used to do 3 gigabit pipes for gamespy so 1500 hi speed users could download simultaneously. obviously gamespy was not the only source and all of those sevices have queing built in to their servers. thats way free customers have to wait.at 2 megs the download a little better than this calculation 200 KBps x 5 is 1 megabyte every 5 seconds x 365 is equal to 1825 seconds divided by 60 is 30 minutes per user. 30 minutes per user in a 24 hout day 400 users per hour x 24 or 9600 downloads per service. hope that helps __________________ Caz Thrush Head Honcho [email protected] http://thrushtech.com ICQ: 304883574 do people still icq?

09-12-2005, 07:25 PM	#4
sevent1 Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 80	The game looks good ..i will give it a try __________________ X

09-12-2005, 07:29 PM	#5
Rob I'm a great bowler. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Right Outside of Normal. Posts: 13,309	Topic but off topic; I was a huge fan of AOE and this one looks good. I can already see my production levels dropping.... __________________