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Advice on game server hosting?

I have Star Wars Battlefront II on PC, and multiplayer is a lot of fun. Lately I've been trying to host a dedicated server with 32 people on it. But I only have a 384k DSL connection, and even if only a few people are on, they have high pings and tons of lag, making them hate the server and they'll never want to come back :( . I made it dedicated so that I wouldn't have to have Battlefront II running all the time (I'm using LucasArts's Server Manager). Yet, I can still join the game whenever I want. All I'm saying here is that I play Battlefront II on the same computer that I host the server on, which, yes, I know, is not the best option I suppose... But I don't have the luxuries of a thriving steady income. So, if I want to host 32 people, what kind of internet connection should I be looking into? What kind of connection is good enough so that the server won't hog bandwidth from the other computers my family uses? 512k? 1M? 3M? 6M? What other advice do you guys have for me? And I dunno, I have a feeling that I'm currently getting ripped off by my current provider ($29.95 for 384kbps). Thanks very much!

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1. You are kind of getting ripped off, but not too bad. For 32 people, I'd look for around 3M. That's currently what I have (1M up, 3M down), and I can host pretty much any game.