Hello all, my relay is set up to support 42 Mbps, however does not get any real traffic routed through it (605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A). I checked anything I could think of but everything looks fine to me. Anyone with an idea what could be wrong here? Many thanks!
Hi friend, On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:38 AM, petrarca@protonmail.ch wrote:
Hello all, my relay is set up to support 42 Mbps, however does not get any real traffic routed through it (605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A). I checked anything I could think of but everything looks fine to me. Anyone with an idea what could be wrong here? Many thanks!
First of all I must admit that I have no idea of what could be causing your consensus weight loss.
After all your relay gets used and that is real traffic. And when you look at other relays you see it is common that the advertised bandwidth is only a fraction of the possible bandwidth. So there should be at least nothing wrong with the advertised bandwidth. Or did you observe a decrease of that as well?
I hope you get more helpful replies concerning the consensus weight. :-) What did you already check?
Hi people, On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:38 AM, petrarca@protonmail.ch wrote:
Hello all, my relay is set up to support 42 Mbps, however does not get any real traffic routed through it (605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A). I checked anything I could think of but everything looks fine to me. Anyone with an idea what could be wrong here? Many thanks!
A few other relays of the same AS as petrarca's relay have become guards recently. Given that tor avoids making circuits with relays from the same AS, how much could that impact the traffic a relay gets? They only provide a small fraction of the whole networks bandwidth.
These are two of them: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/80B8F5AD79F5616EFF8166B4E2128... https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1690976085F0DD5F08226722DDE01...
(It would be cool if it was possible to display the traffic history aggregated by AS as well.)
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 05:38:09AM +0000, petrarca@protonmail.ch wrote:
Hello all, my relay is set up to support 42 Mbps, however does not get any real traffic routed through it (605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A). I checked anything I could think of but everything looks fine to me. Anyone with an idea what could be wrong here? Many thanks!
Hi! Thanks for running a relay.
If you go to the bottom of https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#relayinfo and put in your relay fingerprint, you'll find that every one of the bandwidth authorities thinks it is slow compared to its peers -- i.e. compared to other relays that currently advertise in the same range of 900KBytes/s of peak capacity.
You can see the consensus weight voted by each bwauth in the "bw=" entries. (The numbers for consensus weight are technically unitless but you can think of them kind of like kilobytes per second. What that means isn't that the bwauths think your relay can only do 56KBytes/s of traffic, but that your relay is so overloaded, compared to your peers, that clients should *treat* it like a relay that is advertising 56KBytes/s, in order to load balance properly among all the relays.)
I just tried using your relay for a while, and I pretty consistently got a limit of about 250kbytes/s-300kbytes/s (2mbit to 3mbit) out of it -- nowhere near the 42mbits you describe.
I wonder if your internet connection is asymmetric, i.e. you can download quickly but you can't upload quickly?
--Roger
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