> > > ok i found out why so many servers have just the pathetic 4 or 2 player maximums. it's because renegade automatically sets this according to some other setting which i cannot find which has to do with bandwidth. has anyone figured out where that setting is? i have DSL so i should be able to host games very well and yet it won't give me more than 4 players max.

> > What's the upload and download bandwidth of your DSL?

> i think it's supposed to be a 384 kilobit per second DSL but the highest i've seen it download at was like 42 kilobytes per second.

384 / 8 = 48, so that's no surprise.
And that's probably not enough to host a > 4 player game.