Because they are on a home computer, and cannot handle so many people joining at once.
Utterly false.
It does not matter whether the server is home computer or enterprise server machine in regards of hardware differences. Quite much the same hardware as far as single machine networks go. However, if that "home computer" is also the 24/7 gaming rig with Vista and all the other cream, I am not wondering at all if there are lags.
6 Soldat servers run flawlessly on dedicated machine with 400 MHz Celeron with 512 MB of RAM and Linux as OS.
