Look at that egress…
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I get the global distribution of nodes and services for decentralisation and best chance to win customers, but wouldn’t be better to leave the Asia-Pacific region and move the satellite closer to EU or US? Maybe in South America?
There are very few nodes in AP and very little activity from customers.
Chicken and an egg problem. Customers won’t come if service does not perform well.
You mean leaving out India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and others?
I would believe there is huge potential in those countries.
I have always voiced to investigate why the usage patterns of satellites are so different. My guess was it might be a language barrier where localization in terms of website and marketing could help.
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The location of the satellite doesn’t matter - the customer transfer their data to nodes directly, not via the satellite.
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Usually the problem is Internet and its costs in the Asia region, also a Great Firewall in case of China. In some Asian countries also the electricity supply and Internet are not so stable and the income level is far less to buy a hardware and have an excess capacity on it.
But perhaps the language barrier is the case too.
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Maybe I am wrong but from what I have heard is that countries like Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea don’t have these kind of problems. According to my knowledge they have a stable and developed infrastructure in terms of electricity and internet access and income is high. Maybe someone from that region can give more information on that.
(But honestly I cannot believe it can be worse over there than in Germany…)
I certainly don’t imagine any issues in Singapore - except maybe regulation as it is hard enough just registering a domain there.
One of my best friends lives in Taiwan so I can certainly ask him what internet is like there.
Maybe he has a corner in his apartment for me to host a node for him too. 
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Can tell a funny story similar to that… The company I work for in Australia is based out of Brisbane and the owner hosts some of our services at home. Well, I had better, faster and cheaper internet services in Siberia than he could get in the capital of the State of Queensland… Brisbane is well over 2 million people in population. Australian NBN network really, really sucks. I can see why Starlink has taken off in Aus because even that is so much better than some of other options people are limited to.
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I don’t believe in language barriers. Every IT person understands english, and in Singapore the official language is english. I don’t know how things are with the internet speeds and prices, but SK and Singapore, are pretty technologicaly advanced. Just look at the crypto market in SK, that is huge. I believe the laws are to blame, at least in China and co.
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Speaking as a German, I am sure a German website would help with recognition, press and media coverage and potentially business.
Let’s have a look what others are doing:
Wasabi has a Korean and a Japanese version:
https://wasabi.com/ja/
https://wasabi.com/ko/
AWS has a language switcher, but I don’t recognize the languages.
For Backblaze I could not find a localized version, but an interesting story if true 
https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/vkwjqf/asia_region_for_backblaze/idrvfty/
Oh yes and Impossible Cloud has at least an English and a German version:
https://www.impossiblecloud.com/
https://de.impossiblecloud.com/
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I don’t think this is universally true. Especially in countries like China, Japan etc. They tend to have highly isolated infrastructure both culturally and technically. I mean, even France insists on not ever adopting English words into their language and puts significant effort into translating everything. Though I’m sure people in IT in France speak English to some extent, they would probably be much less likely to participate in the level of discourse we have on this forum for example.
And without any judgement, I think we can tell that English language skills from some of the Russian people on this forum for example is also a bit more limited some times. Luckily they’re all smart people and highly capable of overcoming those barriers of language. But for every person who does invest an undoubtedly higher effort into participating in these discussions regardless of language difficulties, it makes me wonder how many more there are who simply wouldn’t bother to attempt to overcome that difficulty at all.
In fact I think the Netherlands is kind of an odd one out, since English language comprehension is really high here (90.9% which is nearly the same as 95.5% in the US for comparison, though I’m sure the level of comprehension still has quite a gap). I can’t help but think that is at least a factor to why there are so many nodes hosted here for such a small country.
Considering @jammerdan 's comment about Germany, where about 56% are able to speak English. I think there are many countries which might benefit from translated localized websites. Since the worldwide average is 15.14%.
Some other examples
Russia 3.5%
Singapore 96.4%
China 0.9%
India 15-20% (would have thought this was higher)
This numbers originate from different sources, so they may not be comparable. For more info see the list on List of countries by English-speaking population - Wikipedia
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I guess Germans just like if something is in their language, like its german, coz everything whats german is seen as superb by germans 
in the topic, this is insane, i don’t belive customer doing this, egress up to 90Mbps, no read from HDD, means its from somekind of catche, its unheard of, storj inc. admit, thats you, who is feeding us lol
All traffic on Production satellites comes from real customers.
but in announcement was said, there will be supplementation of egress if needed, means even on production satellites (if only those are operational, after all test satellites decommission) so nice try ;>
Reminder that the Saltlake Satellite is a test satellite which has NOT been decommissioned. Please abstain from accusing Storj Labs of making false statements. Any supplemental egress generated by Storj Labs would be coming through the Saltlake satellite, but obviously this is not necessary right now considering the great amount of egress being generated from actual customer usage.
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Don’t know about other storj customers, but we are current in the process of uploading ~200TB to the public network.
Using uplink on a pc with a single Ryzen 9 7950X, data is going up pretty steady @ 12 Gbit/s.
Th3van.dk
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if that was today, i saw You on my node in Poland!
may You share is those files for egress? or more cold storage?
actually ~two and a half times slower
The 08.2023 gave me the most egress so far, with a total of 6.73TB on my 8 subnets, more than 03.2023, when I had 6.39TB, but the earnings… 123$ in 03 vs 41$ in 08.
7 subnets had between 720 - 840GB egress, but 1 had 1.21TB, and it’s not the oldest or the youngest. Maybe because there is the smallest internet activity, or the Asus TUF AX3000 V2 is very good, I don’t know.
Interesting, the 1GB RAM x2 nodes NAS had 840GB egress, but only 250GB stored in that month (both nodes not full). In other months the stored volume dosen’t differ too much from the 18GB NASes.
The 18GB RAM x1 node NAS, old as the first one, had 830GB egress, but stored 430GB, same as all others with 18GB RAM. This makes me conclude that the limited RAM and huge egress had negative impact on ingress.