Hello,

                I’ve had a non-exit relay (602D56DFD408530F7FE3056CAF1DA413A50ECAE4) that has been getting low weight votes from authorities like tor26, gabelmoo, and maatuska, compared to other authorities like moria1 and bastet after checking with the consensus-health tor site. At first, I questioned my ISP (ATT Fiber)’s routing to Germany based on an authority IP so I speedtested to four speedtest.net servers in Nuremberg but I received expected bw and around 100ms ping. Regardless, my relay hasn’t had anywhere as much traffic as it should have, and my relay is essentially offering resources to the Tor network that are being devalued right now. My relay’s consensus weight is around 3000, even though moria1 and bastet vote mine around 10000. I would also ask for the Tor developers’ reasoning for using median of authorities in consensus weighting rather than mean since in my mind, if no authorities are malicious/compromised to give false values, then mean would give a more accurate representation of actual measured bw performance from the authorities, IMO. Is median only used because of a large prevalence of extremely skewed bw vote distributions? Can this be remedied in software to allow for mean usage later on?

Any help would be appreciated :)