Uncertain whether Wifi Hotspot is unreliable

I have an unorthodox setup at the moment, and I am unsure how to diagnose it. Basically, I am unsure of how likely it is that the seemingly obvious cause of my relay setup not working is actually the reason for it not working. Pardon that sentence.

I have a PinePhone running postmarketOS, and I’m using it as my local router. I got it running, got the hotspot working and for a couple days I haven’t touched it. It seems the connection is working pretty good for my desktop pc, but the range of the hotspot is bad enough that if I move a device more than like six feet away the connection is guaranteed to cut out.

Since the connection appears reliable enough for my stationary pc as long as I leave the PinePhone right next to the Wifi antennas, I thought I’d try setting up a Tor relay.

So far I get the tor service running, but as far as the relay goes I get the following warning message

Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its ORPort(s) at XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:9001. Relays do not publish descriptors until their ORPort and DirPort are reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.

I think I’ve followed the docs and a couple tutorials rather carefully, and right now the only config changes should be the following according to the Tor Project relay manual

4. Configuration file

Put the configuration file /etc/tor/torrc in place:

Nickname    myNiceRelay  # Change "myNiceRelay" to something you like
ContactInfo your@e-mail  # Write your e-mail and be aware it will be published
ORPort      443          # You might use a different port, should you want to
ExitRelay   0
SocksPort   0

I also get the following warning

Received http status code 404 ("Consensus is too old") from server 142.202.48.102:443 while fetching consensus directory.

It might seem sure enough that the problem is simply my dodgy Wifi hotspot setup, but since I cannot really be sure myself I thought I’d ask, just in case there’s a chance I might be able to help out even with this going-begging setup.

I do often download files just about upward of a MB/sec over Tor using this connection, and I’d say for the most part the speed stays above 400kB/sec.

Any point in me persevering with this?

I guess you have a mobile connection and you make a hotspot to your devices.

If am am right you are behind a NAT and users from internet won’t be able to access your Relay

My current settings

Nickname nickName
ContactInfo anEmail
ORPort 19412 IPv4Only
DirPort 22777

The ports are set as tor_port_t and tcp in selinux.
The tor service has complained about both ipv4 and ipv6 while I’ve had both enabled. Firewall range includes the ports.

rinkitinkitinki can you please confirm if your connection is nob mobile? (you don’t have a sim in the router?)

Also on the admin page of your router and https://www.whatismyip.net/ you see the same IP address or do you see something from this range 100.64.x.1 to 100.127.x.254