# Bandwidth utilization comparison thread

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960>\
**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")\
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**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:** [November 15, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/bandwidth-utilization-comparison-thread/7960/984 "2020-11-15T12:34:06Z")

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It’s still unfair to compare. You’ve limited yourself to 20% of the network as only the europe-north satellite will ever give you ingress or egress possibility. Also for the first 5 days of the month you were running an old storagenode version so the ingress was 0 bytes. Now it’s been upgraded, ingress in continuing.

You can use the realistic earnings calculator as a guide for your 500GB node, which is now expanded - [Realistic earnings estimator](https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693). For the limits you’ve placed on the node you’re well within the margins.

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