Questions on server hardware requirements, bandwidth, launching, etc

[Chuck850]

I've never had luck with IPv6 running on the server OS. FL tries to bind to it, and will even display part of it's IPv6 address in the server list of an associated client, but it does not work. In my experience you need to remove IPv6 completely off the server OS or do some funky work to hide it from Freelancer.

Freelancer doesn't take much horsepower unless you get a large community going, however be warned, most laptops aren't made to run 24 hours a day. Our first server was a laptop, and we killed it in about a month's time (fan died, processor overheated, machine went bye-bye).

Desktops are cheap. We ran 40 users max on a cheap Core 2 Duo E5300 for a year or more and it managed that load just fine. I'd hate to kill a nice i7 based laptop running it 24x7. Go to a yard sale and scrounge a cheap case, a 350 watt power supply, a small hard drive, and then put a little money into a motherboard, processor, and 2GB of memory and you're done.

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