15 days later running a node with a Wireguard in front. Should i just give up? OR I am doing somethibgn wrong?

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Context: I have a setup in my parents house, but they are behind ISP NAT and they do not have fixed IP or open doors feature.

So I am hosting at my place with good internet (fiber, 200mbps up/down) a wireguard server.
My parents computer is running the node via docker with local storage.

The setup is pretty simple:
Internet > My personal server (iptable routes the request to wireguard client) > My parents server node via wireguard connection

15 days later, the statistics looks horrible!
There is ~120GB ingress but the Egress is almost none!

I am doing this correct? Should i just give up?

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Probably yes. It seems like your expectations are way too heigh. Internet speed doesn’t matter, growth only depends on customer activity.

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this is a normal ingress as the node is on vetting. the ingress will be small until the node gains several terabytes of storage. patience friend!

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BTW: Are you aware of the /24 rule? All nodes in a /24 subnet sharing traffic.

You can check your public IP here: Neighbors

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Have patience. The last couple months haven’t seen much growth: but I bet you can still fill that 2TB in a year. Good Luck!

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It’s cool that you already have more trash than used space. :slight_smile:
2 cents

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Based on Neighbors my public IP has no neighbors.

I have another node (running at my work), started on the same week, and the Egress and Ingress is much much higher!

Both nodes are on the same city, but for sure different IPs and different ISPs

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Which makes me to believe that my VPN setup is sucking somewhere.

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Your node competes with other nodes for the files it transfers. Latency can cause you to lose more races to other nodes. The VPN overhead can potentially cause added latency so performance would be less than a device that isn’t going through a VPN connection. But this is all subjective to many factors, the VPN is just one.

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Horrible? It looks excellent to me. Your node is being vetted. Connectivity working. All is green. Even stupid quic - which is borderline miracle.

Give up getting free money, now that you have already did the hard part (configuring node)? I don’t follow…

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I have to agree with @arrogantrabbit.

  • Your daily egress is steadily rising
  • Your Average Disk Space Used This Month is steadily rising
  • Your Total disk space used is steadily rising

It’s very possible that you’re not done being vettet, and as such, your ingress will be artificially low for now. Your Docker node should update itself. You’ve set it up, not it’s time to forget it and enjoy the free money

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Thanks for the reply everyone.

For me is hard to accept that two nodes, started around the same week is literally 10x apart from each other. I knew the VPN would lower the expectation, but I was not expecting 10x worse.

You’ve set it up, not it’s time to forget it and enjoy the free money

Based on below image, the VPN-Node will not even count $0.01 this month.

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Any tips on how to investigate further? Especially latency? Is it logged somewhere?

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StorJ is a turtle race. It will be another 10 months, before you’re even earning 100% of the payout, and you’ve only been going for two weeks.

Lets just say that the node never grows anymore, your estimate is ~0.08 cent/month in 10 months. But you are growing. Leave the node be, and check back when the vetting process is finished :slight_smile:

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Not use VPN. But it’s not the case, so - only wait.