So, could it be that there is just a wording issue on tor-metrics - to me "observed" and "advertised" bandwidth are two different things but they seem to be the same on tor-metrics. I think I do understand the observed bw, however, still struggle to understand the advertised bw.

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On Tuesday, 7. April 2020 23:13, teor <teor@riseup.net> wrote:

Hi,

On 7 Apr 2020, at 19:56, petrarca@protonmail.ch wrote:

Hello all - I see a constant mismatch of my relay regarding the Advertised Bandwidth vs. the defined and available RelayBandwidthRate.

Tor metrics usually only shows around 1.3 MiB/s as Advertised Bandwidth (Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s, Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s).

The torrc config defines:
RelayBandwidthRate 24 Mbit
RelayBandwidthBurst 48 Mbit

So everything looks fine, except the Advertised Bandwidth seems to be too low. Fingerprint is 605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A and there is plenty of bandwidth available (1 Gbps link). The connection is up-and-running perfectly fine without any issues or interruptions for at least a month.

Any idea, why the Advertised Bandwidth is so low?
On Relay Search, the Advertised Bandwidth is made up of 3 different bandwidths.

For your relay, they are:
Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s
Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s
Observed bandwidth: 1.3 MiB/s

You can see these details by clicking on the Advertised Bandwidths figure on:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A

The observed bandwidth is the maximum bandwidth peak your relay has seen. It's updated each day.

Tor is a low latency network, so it's normal for relays to be loaded at 10-50% of their capacity. (Congestion increases latency.)

If you'd like your relay to get more traffic, please increase your RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst.

T