[tor-relays] Wildly Different BandWidth Numbers

[Sebastian Hahn]

> On 2. Feb 2021, at 22:46, Eddie <stunnel at 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