Hello, relatively new relay operator here.

I originally started running a relay on a Scaleways/Online.net VPS that had extra capacity; saw the line in the Tor FAQ about how them+OVH+Hetzner own the vast majority of relay capacity; decided to hunt around for some other cheap VPS providers to give more capacity and diversity to the network.

One of these relays, 'kima' (fingerprint 54A35E582F9E178542ECCFA48DBE14F401729969), is on ASN 11878, in a datacenter in Chicago, USA.

It has plenty of bandwidth available to it -- iperf3 output between it, a public iperf3 server, and my two other relays is at the end of the mail.  The summary is that I seem to have in excess of 100Mbps of bandwidth available.

However the bwauths are consistently giving it poor scores, and as such I'm not seeing any traffic even after several days:
faravahar: bw=88
moria1: bw=47
gabelmoo: bw=74

bastet: bw=2
longclaw: bw=1

The relay in question seems well-connected to the Internet, and is even relatively close to many of these bwauths: 7 hops and ~2ms away from faravahar, 12 hops and 25ms away from moria1, 10 hops and 52ms away from bastet...

Connecting to host iperf.he.net, port 5201

[  5] local 107.152.35.167 port 44742 connected to 216.218.207.42 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd

[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  40.2 MBytes   337 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  62.5 MBytes   524 Mbits/sec    0   5.80 MBytes      

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   603 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec    0             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   603 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Connecting to host iperf.he.net, port 5201

Reverse mode, remote host iperf.he.net is sending

[  5] local 107.152.35.167 port 44746 connected to 216.218.207.42 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate

[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  16.8 MBytes   141 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  24.2 MBytes   203 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  26.9 MBytes   226 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  25.1 MBytes   210 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  21.3 MBytes   179 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  17.1 MBytes   144 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  17.0 MBytes   142 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  17.8 MBytes   149 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  18.4 MBytes   154 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  18.7 MBytes   157 Mbits/sec                 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   210 MBytes   176 Mbits/sec  336             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   203 MBytes   171 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Connecting to host dangelo.nucleosynth.space, port 5201

[  5] local 107.152.35.167 port 51112 connected to 185.234.72.43 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd

[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  6.80 MBytes  57.0 Mbits/sec    0   3.49 MBytes      

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  30.0 MBytes   252 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.01 MBytes      

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   261 MBytes   219 Mbits/sec    0             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.11  sec   261 MBytes   216 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Connecting to host dangelo.nucleosynth.space, port 5201

Reverse mode, remote host dangelo.nucleosynth.space is sending

[  5] local 107.152.35.167 port 51116 connected to 185.234.72.43 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate

[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  5.58 MBytes  46.8 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  17.6 MBytes   148 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  24.0 MBytes   202 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  29.2 MBytes   245 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  26.4 MBytes   222 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  29.1 MBytes   244 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  27.1 MBytes   227 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  28.2 MBytes   237 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  27.7 MBytes   233 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  27.8 MBytes   233 Mbits/sec                 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.11  sec   246 MBytes   204 Mbits/sec    0             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   243 MBytes   204 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Connecting to host mcnulty.nucleosynth.space, port 5201

[  5] local 107.152.35.167 port 48354 connected to 51.158.165.51 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd

[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  6.66 MBytes  55.8 Mbits/sec    0   3.54 MBytes      

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0   6.03 MBytes      

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   262 MBytes   219 Mbits/sec    0             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.10  sec   261 MBytes   217 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Connecting to host mcnulty.nucleosynth.space, port 5201

Reverse mode, remote host mcnulty.nucleosynth.space is sending

[  5] local 107.152.35.167 port 48358 connected to 51.158.165.51 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate

[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  5.25 MBytes  44.0 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  11.8 MBytes  98.6 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  13.2 MBytes   111 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  9.09 MBytes  76.3 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  7.99 MBytes  67.0 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  7.68 MBytes  64.5 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  8.18 MBytes  68.6 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  8.74 MBytes  73.3 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  8.22 MBytes  69.0 Mbits/sec                 

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  8.26 MBytes  69.3 Mbits/sec                 

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[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.10  sec  91.1 MBytes  75.6 Mbits/sec  633             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  88.4 MBytes  74.1 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.