Voice Choppy

[Ironshard]

All I just started having this issue. I've been running my TS server for about 2 years now with no issues. Recently people have been complaining about extreme choppiness. I logged in and tried to have a conversation with a friend, but with just the two of use on the entire server I couldn't even understand him. I only have the Codex at Speex 7.2 Kbit. I thought maybe my old pc running it was the issue so I built it on my fedora 3 box only moving over the server.ini and server.dbs files. Unfortunately the problem still exists. The only thing that has changed recently is I had to replace my Linksys router with another Linksys router. I have all ports being forwarded, etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ironshard

[maggy]

check your server's resources
from the shell, type in top
if your cpu or memory usage is very high you will have problems

[Ironshard]

No problem there Maggy. I'm only around 3% CPU utilization and 300mg of my 512. I am going to blow away the server.ini and server.dbs files and see if a brand new copy works. I'll let you know. Thanks. If anyone has any other ideas I'm definatly all ears.

Thanks!

[Debu2]

I have the same problem with choppy voices. we can have 5 people in fine no issues.. get 16 or 24 in and no one can hear anything. the server is a dual 3gb with 4 gb ram.. can't be hardware.. :)

[maggy]

how about your network location and condition?
do clients report experiencing packet loss?

[guldi]

I have the same problem with choppy voices. we can have 5 people in fine no issues.. get 16 or 24 in and no one can hear anything. the server is a dual 3gb with 4 gb ram.. can't be hardware.. :)
did you noticed that 16 or even 24 people require A LOT more bandwidth then 5 users ? Your server spec will def. not be the bottleneck. A FAQ thread deals with required bandwidth, so pls read that first