Hello experts,
I have, from the same provider, two VPS with same specs (also same port speed of 200MBit/s, verified via speedtest-cli) - one in Germany, one in South Africa.
Whilst the German one behaves as expected (two fast relays on it), the two relays in South Africa won’t really get up to speed - barely traffic, and advertised bandwidth below 2MB/s .
In general, search for country:za on metrics does not really look too impressive.
Do you have any idea about the reason, i.e. why, despite the VPS having the bandwidth, the relays do not get up to speed?
Thanks - C.
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Hi,
when reading that, this was my suspicion as well.
Ask your provider if the port is shared between other customers (common practice for virtual servers, for example I used to have one with a port speed of 100MbE, in the Czech Republic, however the port was sharted 1:3, so there were always 2 other customers on the same physical ethernet connection on the host system).
200 MBit/s sounds like it might be shared 1:5, if it's a QEMU/KVM virtual server.. you (the host or administrator) can easily bridge 5 different machines onto one 1 GbE physical ethernet adapter.
This is how I used to configure my VM machine on my colocated server:
<interface type='direct'>
<mac address='52:54:00:ff:3b:1e'/>
<source dev='eno2' mode='bridge'/>
<model type='e1000'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' >function='0x0'/>
</interface>
Check the autonomous system ID for your datacenter, and it's peering as well.. a lot of hosts in SA just don't have the best connection.
Also, if your relay indeed is new, it might take a while for it to pick up speed.. for Guard relays, this can take longer than 8 weeks, for exit relays it is usually around 1-2 weeks.
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On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 4:59 PM, s7r via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
The VPS does not provide the advertised speed, the network port
might have that speed but its either shared either not valid for
internet destinations?