Georg, Thank you for the reference that confirms the Advertised Bandwidth is from the Tor client. I still don't understand why my Tor nodes aren't able to initiate a 10 second burst higher than 4MB/s. An Internet Speed Test is able to sustain a burst near my advertised 250Mb/s up and down. Am I right in thinking the answer to this question is... It is what it is? Respectfully, Gary On Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 12:01:13 AM PDT, Georg Koppen <gk@torproject.org> wrote: Gary C. New via tor-relays:

David Goulet:

Will you confirm whether the Advertised Bandwidth metric is also client initiated (I'm assuming to the Directory Authority)?

I have a 250Mb pipe and have seen a maximum Advertised Bandwidth rate of 4MB/s with my Tor relay. I know resource constraint must be factored in, but I would expect better than 4MB/s. I believe I remember reading it was based on an average 10 second burst rate, but in what direction is the connection initiated?

That metrics is not overload related but I talked about advertised bandwidth in a previous mail.[1] I suppose that one helps answering your questions (at least apart from the why only 4MB/s one)? Georg [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-September/019801.html _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays