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Paintball 2: The Game => Server Discussion => Topic started by: jitspoe on March 30, 2007, 07:33:42 PM

Title: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: jitspoe on March 30, 2007, 07:33:42 PM

Ok, how does this work?  I went to check my current bandwidth usage on EV1/dplogin.com to make sure I wasn't at risk of exceeding the 750GB/mo limit on the new server that's getting set up, and I noticed a rather peculiar thing.  In the past couple of months the incoming traffic was higher than the outgoing traffic.  Take a look:

In/Out
Mar: 38.56 GB/24.53 GB
Feb: 49.17 GB/29.49 GB
Jan: 42.61 GB/59.81 GB
Dec: 47.56 GB/80.47 GB
Nov: 74.90 GB/122.47 GB

It used to have more outgoing bandwidth than in, but it seems after I've added the forums, it has more in bandwidth than out, which really doesn't make sense.  What could possibly be uploaded to the server to exceed the data being downloaded?

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: TinMan on March 30, 2007, 08:02:27 PM

someone haxed the forum uploads! lol

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: jitspoe on March 30, 2007, 08:17:38 PM

Except that the overall bandwidth usage has been less recently, so even that doesn't make sense...

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: TinMan on March 30, 2007, 09:21:34 PM

They unhaxed it.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: KnacK on March 30, 2007, 09:30:45 PM

Uploading images and avatars takes up a lot.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: magalhaes on March 30, 2007, 10:10:07 PM

ITS THE WHO ARE YOU THREAD!!!...nvm

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: jitspoe on April 02, 2007, 02:21:18 PM

Quote from: KnacK on March 30, 2007, 09:30:45 PM

Uploading images and avatars takes up a lot.

But they get uploaded once and viewed multiple times...

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: kNoC on April 03, 2007, 12:07:12 PM

maybe there is something else that your not thinking about?

what about that test server? what about all the tests you've ran?

could any of those be the culprit ?

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: KiLo on April 03, 2007, 12:14:12 PM

I don't see why the test server would cause such a difference since it is run just like any other server.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: jitspoe on April 03, 2007, 06:14:29 PM

My tests don't involve uploading much to the server.  I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with the mystery lag spikes.  Perhaps some node is pounding the server at certain times.  I really don't know, though.  Anybody know how I could get more detailed statistics on the inbound/outbound traffic?

Title: Re: Bandwidth Usage
Post by: kNoC on April 04, 2007, 11:28:26 AM

i know cgiproxy has statistics in the admin portion, idk what servers would use...