The Signal
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
104.192.227.51:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 624 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 84% in NA. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 104.192.227.51:28015
- Region
- NA
- Max players
- 30
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 17 Jul 2026, 18:20 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does The Signal use?
There is no gather rate in the name of The Signal. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. pve is the game mode, player-versus-player combat is off. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Oxide. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on The Signal?
The map on The Signal is procedural, size 4,500, generated with seed 1337 by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page. The map is called Custom Map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on The Signal?
These tags come from The Signal and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp30 (Max players): Slot count: 30; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2631 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2631 to get in; cs158240 (Build): Running build 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight players; the environment does the killing; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game; NA (North America): You will find it in the browser under North America. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature The Signal?
On these Boongarust lists you will find The Signal: Top modded Rust servers, Best Rust PvE servers and North America Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
Is The Signal laggy?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 47, with a low of 32. The entity count reached 129,625: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 3,626 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of The Signal?
Its NA tag is how The Signal lists itself in North America. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 104.192.227.51:28015.
How often is The Signal online?
Right now The Signal is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 6 days 23 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does The Signal have?
Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240 on Windows: that is The Signal. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
The Signal wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of The Signal's wipes to tell its rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 83 days 14 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does The Signal place?
Seven-day player hours put The Signal at #15,915, within the top 69% of ranked servers and #1,579 across North America.
Is The Signal busy?
0 players are on The Signal at the moment, out of 30 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join The Signal?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 104.192.227.51:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2631,^p,NA,gmrust,cs158240,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.