# Bandwidth utilization comparison thread **URL:** \ **Category:** FAQ\ **Tags:** monitoring, bandwidth, web-dashboard, multiple-nodes\ **Created:** [July 4, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960 "2020-07-04T07:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 50
**Author:** ![SGC](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/sgc/32/1132_2.png) [@SGC](https://forum.storj.io/u/SGC)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/986 "2020-11-15T13:16:11Z")
it’s the same for everyone, mostly slow going for now… ---
**Author:** ![Pentium100](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pentium100/32/6082_2.png) [@Pentium100](https://forum.storj.io/u/Pentium100)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/987 "2020-11-15T21:31:33Z")
Yeah, it has slowed down. ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/1/1bdbdcad588890e5b32a91b0f0fef798dd9d9310.png) ---
**Author:** ![goldyka](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/goldyka/32/66_2.png) [@goldyka](https://forum.storj.io/u/goldyka)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/988 "2020-11-16T01:18:20Z")
If i understand correctly seeing recent posts and bandwith drop for everybody, 99% of the data we usualy get is test data. Since test data is ~0 ; what we see now is true customer data? ---
**Author:** ![kevink](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/kevink/32/6077_2.png) [@kevink](https://forum.storj.io/u/kevink)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/989 "2020-11-16T06:25:55Z")
You can always check the dashboard, saltlake and europe-north are test satellites. all others are real customers. ---
**Author:** ![TheMightyGreek](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/themightygreek/32/6081_2.png) [@TheMightyGreek](https://forum.storj.io/u/TheMightyGreek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/990 "2020-11-16T07:39:54Z")
that was also my understanding but now I am more skeptical. I find it hard that unpredictable customer data would behave that way. The only explanations I can come up with are that either all satellites send us some kind of test data or there’s been some problem which caused customers to upload less data. I say that because europe-west, us-central and asia-east used to have a pretty stable average bandwidth use and it suddenly dropped to very low levels exactly the same day. Maybe someone from the storj team could shine some light on this so that we don’t have to speculate… ---
**Author:** ![Pentium100](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pentium100/32/6082_2.png) [@Pentium100](https://forum.storj.io/u/Pentium100)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/991 "2020-11-16T08:11:27Z")
Yeah, looks interesting: asia-east ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/9/9a3843f5ef140babf4d4b195fba918ec65fc17e7.png) europe-north ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/2/266122f105b94ea439838b9e0a10564007411b38.png) europe-west: ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/1/1fb2aafe832d293ae51d830f58d7fd62a4bab696.png) saltlake: ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/8/8febc112bfd91f23b81e4c75f611aa2731594402.png) us-central: ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/5/56d9ffbbf5254d89c9f3518c51dcabc344396bed.png) Drop in traffic on the “client” satellites at almost exactly the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Odmin](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/odmin/32/92_2.png) [@Odmin](https://forum.storj.io/u/Odmin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/992 "2020-11-16T08:26:05Z")
Thanks, @Pentium100 It really interesting statistic, I would like to expose more details about one node traffic: Ingress: ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/7/7daf3737f13f48a6b39000beb9187739dc440b31.jpeg) Egress: ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/e/e49141d65ae4af0c47cb1f93da6e8361a27c2e98.png) ---
**Author:** ![SGC](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/sgc/32/1132_2.png) [@SGC](https://forum.storj.io/u/SGC)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/993 "2020-11-16T08:46:35Z")
all in all it looks pretty much like i would expect if somebody pulled the big breaker at a nuclear power plant… all power in the region goes out, even if not immediately, because of various latent effects. ---
**Author:** ![deathlessdd](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/deathlessdd/32/6067_2.png) [@deathlessdd](https://forum.storj.io/u/deathlessdd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/994 "2020-11-16T13:16:25Z")
Could be possible that there’s less data because of all the issues with orders so everything is going to a stand still. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/995 "2020-11-16T14:36:56Z")
I don’t think that would really matter much. I mean, it was also just weekend. If some tests stopped during the weekend they may be resumed today again. Slow traffic happens, there isn’t necessarily something wrong. We all know it will also pick up again at some point. So I wouldn’t worry about it so much. ---
**Author:** ![deathlessdd](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/deathlessdd/32/6067_2.png) [@deathlessdd](https://forum.storj.io/u/deathlessdd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/996 "2020-11-16T18:45:15Z")
Oh I’m not worried seems like a lot are comin out of the wood works cause data is low me I don’t care it gives my nodes a break this month. ---
**Author:** ![Pac](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pac/32/6053_2.png) [@Pac](https://forum.storj.io/u/Pac)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/997 "2020-11-16T21:33:41Z")
> [@SGC](#): > > all in all it looks pretty much like i would expect if somebody pulled the big breaker at a nuclear power plant… You’re so imaginative… 😅 > [@Pentium100](#): > > Drop in traffic on the “client” satellites at almost exactly the same time. Which suggests all satellites are testing in fact, not only saltlake. Oh well… I just hope Tardigrade will eventually be actually used a lot by real users, but I guess Rome wasn’t built in a day. @Odmin Amazing charts by the way. ---
**Author:** ![SGC](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/sgc/32/1132_2.png) [@SGC](https://forum.storj.io/u/SGC)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/998 "2020-11-16T22:02:47Z")
agreed @Odmin charts are very nice and easy to read… unlike some peoples charts that make alchemical texts look trivial. > [@Pac](#): > > Which suggests all satellites are testing in fact, not only saltlake. Oh well… > I just hope Tardigrade will eventually be actually used a lot by real users, but I guess Rome wasn’t built in a day. shouldn’t really be a big surprise tho… ofc there maybe different kinds of test data… there maybe the kind the use to pay us with and the kind they use to do more detailed tests. might be that the data stored from the other satellites are long term almost never test data… ofc some of it would be… because they would need some way to track and verify stuff… i try lol to imagine… usually end up rambling tho… fluent in geberish what can i say… xD ---
**Author:** ![SGC](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/sgc/32/1132_2.png) [@SGC](https://forum.storj.io/u/SGC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/999 "2020-11-19T13:08:00Z")
so today something new happened… i’m unsure if i’ve actually see this become, aside from when we switched to 1.13.1 as minimum version… and i believe that was both egress that was affected. or was it ingress… no matter… was just weird to see it zero out… exact same thing happened on all 3 nodes of mine… all on v1.15.3 sure it’s nothing… just figured somebody else might be seeing the same thing and be wondering. ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/7/763d61e0fbe5eda7ed710720748ac18be9c94cf4.png) ---
**Author:** ![thej](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/thej/32/1123_2.png) [@thej](https://forum.storj.io/u/thej)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/1000 "2020-11-19T13:31:05Z")
@SGC ![grafik](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/e/e25b2809e58c862923328a8a514027460f664e84.png) ---
**Author:** ![LinuxNet](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/linuxnet/32/6084_2.png) [@LinuxNet](https://forum.storj.io/u/LinuxNet)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/1001 "2020-11-19T15:15:01Z")
![sn2](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/e/ea73dbf3264c3f397ea9411d8881f0964dc90c16.png) ---
**Author:** ![tankmann](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/tankmann/32/65_2.png) [@tankmann](https://forum.storj.io/u/tankmann)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/1002 "2020-11-19T18:52:50Z")
Same here as well… Repair Egress 0 on both nodes. ---
**Author:** ![SGC](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/sgc/32/1132_2.png) [@SGC](https://forum.storj.io/u/SGC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/1003 "2020-11-19T21:39:37Z")
i sense that the repair sequence is finally over… had been running for god knows how long. ---
**Author:** ![Krystof](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/krystof/32/7832_2.png) [@Krystof](https://forum.storj.io/u/Krystof)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/1004 "2020-11-19T22:38:11Z")
Someone push the button and bandwidth is back ---
**Author:** ![thej](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/thej/32/1123_2.png) [@thej](https://forum.storj.io/u/thej)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/1005 "2020-11-20T06:17:36Z")
yep looks much better now ![grafik](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/b/b81896a1ec803af05721bc4452133d2672c76ec8.png) [Previous page](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960.md?page=49) [Next page](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960.md?page=51)