cybercafe setup

Here at our cyber cafe we have 40 units here. Our customers are 90% are gamers (they ussually played Counterstike) and 10 are the internet users.

So many of them are gamers and we should have a dedicated server for this.

We used a 3 Dlink-FastSwitch with 15 ports for the Network. (it is required)

The specs of our Game Server:

P3 733MHz and
10GB HArd Drive and
32MB Videocard and
256MB of RAM
10/100Mbps Ethernet Card
B/W 10 inch. monitor (i used this to save some energy)

Station for Customers:
Duron 750
128MB of RAM
32MB of Video Card
10GB Hard Drive

Internet Connection:
If you want't to be competitive in terms of internet connection, used DSL if that is available to your area. And buy a Router this will free one Dial-up server or a Server for the internet. (Some Cyber Cafe Used a Dedicated Firewall for their security, but here, our Cyber Cafe Assitance and we, are the security here)

This is setup at the 4th Quarter of year 2000, and during this time its fast enough. And we planning to upgrade it next year for a 2GHz for the server and 1Gz for the workstation. Co'z some games have very high requirements.

So, what i mentioned is some Units that are required, and here we focust at games. The thing you should know is your customers.

How many of them are gamers?
If there is more gamers you need a heavy duty one.. (AMD platform good for games cost less, but many of theme says "It is no much in case of office application.)

If it is more on office application setup a efficient workstation (Pentium platform known as Efficient but cost much.)

And know you decide which is better!!
Hope this help!!

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