Why are Telecom Towers better than Server Farms?

[Ani]

Hello, I'm going to get this game as soon as it goes on sale and I was looking at the new communications service, aware that people prefer Telecom Towers, but was surprised to see that the server farm looks quite a lot better, so can someone please tell me why almost everyone I've seen uses telecom towers?

[SumGumption]

Maybe no one has actually gotten that far yet. I know that I never could get that far. Uninstalled it.

[xWris3]

Humm ... I don't think they serve the same purpose do they ?

[Ani]

They don't?

[Stealthy]

I use server farms. They do same job, biggest difference is radius if I remember right. Telecom tower has 5km where as servers got 2.5km.

[SumGumption]

Originally posted by KILI:

They don't?

I think... CS11 has a Wiki page that might actually answer your question for real. Maybe?

[Apop85]

Server farms increase the overall network quality and i think they also have their own radius - but not sure about that. Have to check tomorrow if still interested. However - I used two of them as well i think 3 big transmission towers (not the first one you unlock - dunno the name) to cover the whole city of 330k pop
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3079911231

[Ani]

Originally posted by Apop85:

Server farms increase the overall network quality and i think they also have their own radius - but not sure about that. Have to check tomorrow if still interested. However - I used two of them as well i think 3 big transmission towers (not the first one you unlock - dunno the name) to cover the whole city of 330k pop
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3079911231

Yes, they have half the radius, but they're also a lot cheaper.

[Walker Evans]

Depends on how dense you've built and how wide.

The simple radio mast is cheap and small, but only provides 3tbps over a circle with 1km radius. Enough, I find for low-medium density, especially if you overlap them over higher density areas. Bandwidth upgradable to 4.5tbps which, I find, is enough to tide you over when slowly building up density.

The server farm provides 20tbps over 2.5km. Good for higher density areas.

The telecom tower, I actually haven't found a good use for. It provides less bandwidth than the server farm (15tbps) but over a much wider area of 5km. And it's expensive, almost double the upkeep of the server farm and 20 times the upkeep of the radio mast. Maybe if you've built very wide? But then I'd just use lots of radio towers.