# Am doing something wrong with my node? **URL:** \ **Category:** Node Operators\ **Created:** [September 28, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469 "2021-09-28T03:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/21 "2021-09-28T12:00:40Z")
2% difference in egress / ingress, and the salary 5.76 times higher … um … strange … not all SNs take part in the test? If this SN remains, I will lose my friend, if I want this friend, another SN will disappear from the network. Unless a solution is found … and the colleague is happy ---
**Author:** ![Sierra](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/sierra/32/1128_2.png) [@Sierra](https://forum.storj.io/u/Sierra)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/22 "2021-09-28T15:43:26Z")
> There are some exceptions like using the network connected drives for storage or SMR drives or use devices with too low RAM (less than 500GB), which can significant lower income because such hardware become a bottleneck, Wait, how much RAM? ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/23 "2021-09-28T18:23:41Z")
Thanks! 🙂 fixed the response. ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/24 "2021-09-28T18:35:43Z")
> [@Stob](#): > > When you think about a request to a storagenode a ping would represent the transit time without waiting on the disk for data. The ping time does not include the latency in the software, only the transit time between ports, unfortunately there is no information about the full latency in the storagenode’s databases. @stob @peem What is your bandwidth? Up and down, especially - up. ---
**Author:** ![Stob](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/stob/32/1137_2.png) [@Stob](https://forum.storj.io/u/Stob)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/25 "2021-09-28T19:03:09Z")
500Mbps down / 500Mbps up ---
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/26 "2021-09-28T19:30:52Z")
Speedtest shows: Download: 549.57 Mbit/s Upload: 66.11 Mbit/s ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/27 "2021-09-28T20:35:13Z")
> [@Stob](#): > > 500Mbps up > [@peem](#): > > Upload: 66.11 Mbit/s Seems this makes a difference. But I didn’t expect so linear dependency. ---
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/28 "2021-09-29T03:39:53Z")
So if a colleague changes the contract for the connection speed, he will eventually earn like other SNOs? Does anyone guarantee that it will be so? In the results of the “successrate” program for downloading from the node, should I look at “download”? ---
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/29 "2021-09-29T03:54:27Z")
Could you give your results for September for comparison? A colleague has: Ingress 402.5GB Egress 98.89GB ---
**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/30 "2021-09-29T07:27:52Z")
Have you seen this thread: > [@High egress on small node vs larger ones](https://forum.storj.io/t/high-egress-on-small-node-vs-larger-ones/14761): > > Hi All, I have a node that is only 500GB in size and the daily egress is about 34gb per day. This node earns about $20 per month which is WAY above others I have that have 10x the capacity. The node is about 2 years old and pretty much never down. At work I have a 15TB node at full capacity that’s just as old which pulls in about $50-60 per month with egress of 80gb per day. Does anyone running multiple small nodes(500gb-1TB) under a single IP have any nodes with similar performance? I was goi… Earnings don’t seem to be evenly distributed. If you are lucky and your node stores data that get downloaded frequently then even a node with a size of only 500 GB can earn $20 a month as the node operator has stated. ---
**Author:** ![Stob](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/stob/32/1137_2.png) [@Stob](https://forum.storj.io/u/Stob)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/31 "2021-09-29T08:20:03Z")
Ingress 467.13GB Egress 836.39GB ---
**Author:** ![BrightSilence](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/brightsilence/32/6048_2.png) [@BrightSilence](https://forum.storj.io/u/BrightSilence)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/32 "2021-09-29T08:35:23Z")
> [@peem](#): > > Ingress 402.5GB > Egress 98.89GB My ingress is only slightly higher at 463GB, but I have 1.5TB egress. I also have more than 15TB of data stored on that node though. This matters a lot. But it doesn’t explain this big of a difference. > [@peem](#): > > So if a colleague changes the contract for the connection speed, he will eventually earn like other SNOs? > Does anyone guarantee that it will be so? No one can guarantee that, there are too many variables and connection speed is just one of them. I personally highly doubt that this is actually the bottleneck in this case. We’ve seen node operators with lower upload speeds have better performance than that. As @Alexey pointed out before, the speed that matters is the speed from receiving the data request to sending the full piece. This includes upload speed, but it also includes HDD speeds and anything else impacting that process. > [@jammerdan](#): > > Earnings don’t seem to be evenly distributed. It is for 2 nodes that were receiving data during the same time period though. For the most part at least. @Stob’s node provides a useful comparison for this as it is the same amount of months old. I just noticed something comparing the results of the success rate script from both @peem and @stob. @peem has around 30k downloads initiated and @stob has 300k. The success rate is close, but the number of total downloads to begin with is 1/10th. I can’t really explain how that could possibly be. Anyone else have an idea? ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/33 "2021-09-29T19:02:38Z")
I would like to suggest to compare the remained hardware to remove it from the equation. ---
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/34 "2021-09-29T19:17:58Z")
Thank you very much. Could you please reveal how much data your node has accumulated over these 17 months? Here: Used 2.46TB And where is your node geographically located? ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/35 "2021-09-30T07:13:18Z")
Split this topic on September 30, 2021, 7:13am UTC 2 posts were split to a new topic: [What about Geo-centralization requirements?](https://forum.storj.io/t/what-about-geo-centralization-requirements/15498) ---
**Author:** ![aer4af](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/aer4af/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@aer4af](https://forum.storj.io/u/aer4af)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/37 "2021-09-30T07:10:55Z")
Obviously, you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/38 "2021-09-30T07:11:41Z")
I would love to read the more exact answer. With numbers. And rationales behind. ---
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/39 "2021-09-30T07:12:06Z")
Looking at this thread: > [@My egress has dropped significantly over the past few days](https://forum.storj.io/t/my-egress-has-dropped-significantly-over-the-past-few-days/15455/2): > > Is it online 24/7? I assumed it is, but you’ve missed that info on the screenshots (status & version). “my” node is probably in some completely different Storj DCS ![band](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/c/caf743a16a4738bfdb1b7fe3bf1a1bc799604463.png) ---
**Author:** ![aer4af](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/aer4af/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@aer4af](https://forum.storj.io/u/aer4af)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/40 "2021-09-30T07:12:11Z")
I can’t recall exactly. But I think it was early this year. I will go mining anyway. ---
**Author:** ![peem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/peem/32/6323_2.png) [@peem](https://forum.storj.io/u/peem)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/am-doing-something-wrong-with-my-node/15469/41 "2021-09-30T07:31:30Z")
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