Problem when more than 10 are on a channel

[alcastelo]

Hi all.

Im running a private (clan) server 2.0.20.1 over a ubuntu edgy since a couple of months ago.

Since the clan has grown, we found that in some events we get more than 10 people on a sigle channel. The first 10 people (aprox) to get inside the server, always have clear sound, and get 100% of the conversation inside the channel. But the rest of the people suffer from a huge packet loss that make the sound scatter, only chunks of sound gets to the client.

I take stats on the server during the comunication, and seems that my bandwith limitation is not overpassed, so im starting to question if 13 people in a unmoderated channel are to much for team speak.

At the same time, while the 13 peoples are having troubles to ear thenselves, if other people are in other channel, they can ears between then perfectly, so this make me again think that this is not a bandwith limitation.

Any kind of idea??

Any help will be greatly apreciated.

Thanks in advance.


P.D.

Sorry about my english, since its not my native tounge

[Thomas]

I think the channel has no limitation.
(I saw 40 people at the same time in the same channel and we were able to understand each other.)


Which bandwith do you have?

[alcastelo]

thanks for your interest

I have a 6000/500 cable modem conection, i know its not too much, but i make test with ifstat and it seem the bandwith its nos surpased anytime (since we use a very low codec, and only one or two people talking at same time)

Any sugestions? or maybe its a simple bandwith question?

Thanks in advance

[weezul]

mhmhmh we've been experiencing the same problem.. we're using teamspeak on an dedicated linux server for our Wow Guild.

We use the following Structure in our Raid channel:

+Raids ( Mainchannel )
Raidleader ( here is me, i use a whisper button speak to all other class channels and with my own channel )
-classchannel1
Classofficer of channel1 ( speaks with his classmembers in his own channel and has a whisper button to all other classofficers including to the raidleader )
-classchannel2 ( same as above.. )
Classofficer of channel2
-classchannel3 ( same as above.. )
Classofficer of channel3
and so on..

Now, why i'm here.. somtimes very strange things happen: When i use my whisper button to speak to all channels, some players experience a very strange lag. Some channels can hear me fine, without lag, and in other channels i'm awfull laggy and noone can understand a word.
If i enter classchannel everyone can understand me clear.
But this problem doesn't occure every time, its random i think.. and then only for a few minutes.. after 10-15 minutes everything is working fine.

I read above that u menioned the channel limitations, each channel had a limitation of 100 Players. I set it to 15 Players now.

Could this have been the problem?

With best regrads

-weezul

[alcastelo]

This is just the structure we will using in our next raid, but i really didnt understand whats the matter with the server

¿any idea?

[tecnobrat]

I am experiencing the same issue. We have 40 people in a channel at a time (raiding on wow). Randomly, the TS server will start to randomly give people packet-loss. Some people can hear fine, others get really studdery packet-loss speech.

The people who have the packet-loss are random, but consistent until the issue passes, but the next time, it will be a random 10ish other people.

I've tried turning the codec down really low, and thats not the issue. I have lots of bandwidth, this is a dedicated box in a huge co-located building. I'm not even getting close to any kind of limits as far as bandwidth goes.

If any of you figure this out, please let me know.

By the way, I'm hosted at ev1servers.net

[Reedy Boy]

If you have a hosted server, you will have higher bandwith avaliable

If you are not hosting the server yourself, contact your hosting provider to let them know of the problem

[Sealance]

I had 20 people on a K6 200mhz with 128mb edo when I only had 768kbit upload on my home dsl, and the audio quality was fairly good with 16kbit. Do you run anything else on the server or on your connection? Torrents and similar stuff tend to hog bandwidth.

[Scorpyn]

Do the ones with lag have modems or other slow connections? Because I've been on a server with 250 ppl in the same channel (at which point we had to split into more channels, and some were unable to connect etc).

[alcastelo]

Nothing else running on the same sarver, but the conexion is share with mi computer.
I only have 600 kbps of upload and i start thinking its the reason for the delay. But, when we make diferent groups, it seem to work well, its weird for me

[m00koen]

I'm having the same problem when more then 10 people are on the server it start getting wierd some people can understand everythingthats said just fine, and some cant understand a word thats being said?? and it is random some people are the lucky ones one day and the unlucky ones the next day?

I connection is a 8mb/512kb nothing ells runs on the line exept wow, the ts server is on a another computer then my game computer. does anyone know what the problem is?

[xhriztjan]

Im on a 100/10 Mbit optic fiber connection so i dont have this problem often.

Its not only your upload that is important.

For example i got 1 user from australia (server in sweden), if we are 20 ppl on the server and im using codec higher than 16 she will get packet loss. Reason is we dont connect very well. Even if you got 1Mbit upload its not certain that all your users can connect to your server at those speeds.

I got problems with som ppl from england (think they are on aol). They can for example only download files from my server in 50 kb/s while others from england with same connection but diffrent ips can load in 500kb/s. So even if you only use 10 % of your upload they still get packet loss when to many users are online.