The Signal
Online NA 104.192.227.51:28015 checked 9m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 67% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
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What is the wipe schedule on The Signal?
Not enough of The Signal's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC. Its current world was made 73 days 9 hours ago.
Players
How busy is The Signal?
Right now The Signal has 0 players on 30 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players.
How does The Signal rank against other Rust servers?
The Signal is #15,505 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 67% of all ranked servers and #1,579 in North America.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The Signal?
The Signal gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is pve, no fighting other players. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Oxide plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does The Signal run?
The Signal runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,500 with seed 1337. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page. Its map name reads: Custom Map.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on The Signal mean?
The Signal publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2631 (Protocol): Game protocol 2631: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs158240 (Build): Game build 158240; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^p (PvE): Players don't fight each other; the danger is the world; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game; NA (North America): Listed under North America in the server browser. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include The Signal?
The Signal fits these Zongarust lists: Best modded Rust servers, Best Rust PvE servers and Best US Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server
Where is The Signal located?
The Signal lists itself in North America with its NA tag. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 104.192.227.51:28015.
Is The Signal online, and how reliable is it?
The Signal is online right now. It last restarted about 13 days 20 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does The Signal run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 36 server fps on average, never below 22. It carried up to 129,503 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 6,074 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The Signal run?
The Signal runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The Signal?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 104.192.227.51:28015. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.