You are correct when saying that rates are enforced by the server. It really depends on how much bandwidth you have to the server. If you aren’t sending/receiving fast enough to the server, higher rates will actually hurt you. The server rates are (or were when I set them up) set to 20000/45/45. I don’t see why they would have been changed unless we are taking the new ping kicker into account (assume that it works). Then the max rates could probably be safely lifted to 20000/66/66. If you ping 45 or less, 30000/101/101 are perfect rates and are the server maximums 
