Hello,
Yes it's very normal. After 2 weeks you will see the speed increasing. You can read here about the lifecycle of a new relay https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/
Kind regards, Tzanca
On Monday, August 19th, 2024 at 9:01 PM, observatory123 via tor-relays tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote:
Dear fellow relay operators,
I've been hosting a tor relay on a VPS (strato) for a couple days now. I've never done this before, so I have a couple of questions:
- Is it normal for my relay to only use up only about 2 MB/s after nearly 5 days of uptime despite bandwidth speed tests done with speedtest-cli generally reporting significantly higher bandwidth?
- Is it normal for my relay to advertise 7.37 MiB/s on its relay search page despite bandwidth speed tests done with speedtest-cli generally reporting significantly higher bandwidth?
- Do I have to mark somewhere that I'm hosting the tor relay on a VPS (which means technically a company also has control over the relay)?
- Is this mailing list a good place to ask these questions? Or am I reaching too many people by doing this?
When I say I performed a bandwidth test, I mean I performed a bandwidth test with the speedtest-cli debian package. The test generally tells me I have about 217 MB/s download speed and 113 MB/s upload speed. The nickname of my relay is observatory123 and its fingerprint is:
45431BF8AB66C673942C1E344BB520625CE5F817
Kind regards,
observatory123