Post: #36

UO also isnt very bandwidth intensive compared to most game servers, sure the more the better, but you don't need a quadrillion terabyte connections to run a UO server.

I mean hell, both Sphere and UO were designed to work with clients on a 56k connection, if you tried to play some of today's games with a 56k connection good luck.

I remember back in the old TUS days a "Dedicated T1 line" was considered the holy grail of "holy god super speed!" that supported hundreds of players easily. Now a days you can get those speeds (or more) at home with a decent cable connection.

The part that might screw you now, is your *upload* bandwidth. A lot of internet providers you with good download bandwidths, but very little (as low as 1-2MB/s) upload bandwidth.. and that's what will kill you.

The only thing that matters now is how close you are to major backbones and your player base. But a deceit stable connection with few hops to a backbone, solid upload bandwidth, a static IP and a stable server machine and you could probably host a large UO server from home.

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