On 2. Feb 2021, at 22:46, Eddie stunnel@attglobal.net wrote:

Looking at the consensus health page for my relay D195E5CE8AE77BAC91673E6CFB7BD0AF57281646), I see wildly different values for bandwidth:

bw=3060 bw=910 bw=340 bw=620 bw=5130

Why is there such a discrepancy. I'm guessing this has something to do with my relay bouncing in and out of Guard status on a regular basis (which I'm sure can't be a good thing).

Is there anything I can do to maintain a consistent value, be it at one end of the scale or the other.

Hi Eddie,

my bwauth has consistently rated your relay around 1000 for months. I think this is just the kind of network connectivity you offer to some parts of the world. This is not a problem for the bwauth system in principle, we have them spread across the world a bit to see how well a relay works in different places.

A certain amount of flag flapping is normal in Tor. For your relay, my dirauth has these values:

+MTBF 103 0.00010 S=2020-10-31 20:19:00 +WFU 103 106

This gives a WFU of 0.9716, which means I don't consider your relay a guard currently. Once your WFU raises, you will be considered a guard again.

Cheers Sebastian