# Realistic earnings estimator

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693>\
**Category:** Storage Node feature requests - voting\
**Tags:** earnings-estimator, useful-tools\
**Created:** [May 10, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693 "2020-05-10T21:53:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693/76 "2020-09-20T16:02:54Z")

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> [@BrightSilence](#):
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> and this month is just over 400GB so far,

This month, I’m running about 750 GB on 3.5 TB full node.

**On lack of analytics**

It might be nice to have a third party opt-in analytics network. Node operators submit a signed public key along with a hash of their node ID… to attest that they are a node operator.

The analytics service could be very simple, just pull the daily bandwidth numbers each day at local time 02:00 … and have a secondary port open which queries the analytics using an authentication token of some kind.

Rate limiting on the data could be set to one query per 4 hours or something like that to ensure that DDoS isn’t a problem.

Low speed chatter between nodes could result in node operators being able to determine their local success rates along with local bandwidth comparison. Those data could then be fed into a localized earnings estimator.

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