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
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