Relay Search page is showing extremely low BW speed
Hey there, My VPS is dedicated to running a Tor relay server, so the performance should be good. However, your Relay Search page (metrics.torproject.org) now says the speed is only just "XXX KiB/s"! (X is a number) This should not be true. I ran the `speedtest --secure --server XYZ` on the server in question, and it returns: Using server A Download: 98.34 Mbit/s Upload: 120.44 Mbit/s Using server B Download: 88.81 Mbit/s Upload: 104.86 Mbit/s Using server C Download: 94.34 Mbit/s Upload: 103.05 Mbit/s I also checked the firewall configuration, and it did not limit anything. Are you sure your network measurement server is not overloaded? How about teaming up with speedtest servers to measure real network value? So the questions are: Q1. Where are you measuring this from? Q2. If the Advertised BW is just this low, doesn't my Tor relay won't be used at all?
On 19.10.2025 00:01 am via tor-relays wrote:
Q1. Where are you measuring this from?
See the reply you got to your other question: Message-ID: <2e477f2b-0fdc-4eb5-ba14-127f188d0861@dzwdz.net> TLDR: Your system reports that.
Q2. If the Advertised BW is just this low, doesn't my Tor relay won't be used at all?
It will be used, but the probability that clients will choose it is much lower than for high BW relays - to avoid overload. See the graph on the right side in the metrics page.
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