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Equipment is key on any massively online game. Just to give you an idea, we are currently using 92 servers for the Unknown. Yes when we say servers we mean Dell Power Edge Servers, not clones, not 386?s, 6 SQL cluster servers being used to store data, and one EMC Oracle Database used to calculate player positions and entities. We are not using a cable modem to connect to the internet but a DS3 (45 Meg pipe) to the internet. Understand it takes 500 players per T1 to play any online game. That may sound like a lot but it is not when you think massive. Most Dial-ups can only handle 4 players, and most cable lines 8-14. ASDL can do a few more, but understand this is uploading & download your doing both. Our servers are connected via fiber, to a core switch with multiple backbones to insure security and reliability. This is just 1 Unknown Shard, since we are planning on running only one world this is one world worth of equipment.

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