OpenVPN and Neighbors

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I’ve setup a node and because my ISP is using CGNAT I’ve set it up to use OpenVPN using some of the guidance in topics in this forum. It’s all working well but when I look at Neighbors it says there are 9 nodes. Correct me if I’m wrong but does that mean I get 1/9th of the traffic?

If so, does anyone know what I might be able to do, fairly easily, to get more traffic through?

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Hello @tre4orbragg,
Welcome back!

Likely yes.

Only change the public server in the configuration of your VPN provider I suppose.

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  1. You can try different endpoint of your vpn provider
  2. You can launch more nodes: assuming there are already 9 nodes on that ip, if you have 1 node it will get 10% of the traffic. If you launch 11 nodes — you will get 55% of traffic. This will also piss off the original 9 nodes and some may leave, leaving you even more traffic :). Unless they also decide to launch 20 nodes. I don’t know how far can you get it while staying within ToS.
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AFAIK there is no maximum number of nodes :smiley:

But this approach (launching more nodes than others in same subnet) has the potential to escalate really quickly :smiley:

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Thanks, I’ll have a look if I can change the public server.

Launching multiple other nodes…yeah I can imagine that might go wild! :rofl:

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My VPN provider gives my 3 forwarded ports per endpoint, so I am spawning 3 nodes per endpoint. Nice side effect is no more problems with bloom filter size because nodes are small.