Carlo P. via tor-relays wrote:
Hello experts,
I have, from the same provider, two VPS with same specs (also same port speed of 200MBit/s, verified via speedtest-cli) - one in Germany, one in South Africa. Whilst the German one behaves as expected (two fast relays on it), the two relays in South Africa won't really get up to speed - barely traffic, and advertised bandwidth below 2MB/s .
In general, search for country:za on metrics does not really look too impressive. Do you have any idea about the reason, i.e. why, despite the VPS having the bandwidth, the relays do not get up to speed?
Thanks for running relays. Country diversity counts a lot in the Tor network.
Generally speaking, the network topology and Directory Authorities / Bandwidth authorities do not penalize or in any way limit specific countries (in current case South Africa). Not at all.
The reasons can be: - relay is new. you can search in the documentation the life cycle of a new relay, simply said, it takes some time until your relay gets measured at its peak capacity and it is used at its peak capacity. It's natural for it to start at a low advertised speed and see less traffic in the early stage of its life cycle.
- the VPS does not provide the advertised speed, the network port might have that speed but its either shared either not valid for internet destinations. The probability is smaller for this scenario. How did you test the VPS has that bandwidth available all the time and for general internet destinations?