This is mine from today, This is clearly something to do with how many nodes are fighting to get the file.
Less there is an issue but I dont believe there to be one, because of how low the traffic is vs how many nodes that are running.
Iām in the same boat as most who have posted with ~55% download and ~34% uploadā¦Iām in the US. Looks like most of my traffic is coming from Europe satellite and I suppose my node is just not quick enough
The part that kind of gets me though is that a lot of these failed uploads are failing within a 1-2 seconds, which seems almost too quick for other nodes to complete the upload before mine does.
A little info that might be relevant. It used to be that out of 95 upload transfers only 80 were finished and 15 cancelled. Roughly 84%. If you used to see success rates higher than that, you did better than average on the test traffic which came mostly from one location. Please note that this means other nodes did worse than average back then.
Since then, 3 things changed:
Test traffic has stopped and we now see traffic from all around the world. Nodes that used to do better than average likely saw a drop because their advantage with the test source doesnāt necessarily apply with other customers.
Instead of 95, now 110 transfers are started, but still only 80 finish, so 30 are cancelled. This means the average success rate has dropped to 73%.
The lower amount of total traffic may have caused previously bandwidth constraint nodes to become more competitive. They would have lost more races when there were multiple transfers going on on their node, but with only a single transfer they are better able to keep up. This may cause some high bandwidth connections or faster hardware to see less of an advantage than they used to.
Unfortunately for me, I saw a big drop as well. I did exceptionally well with the test traffic. About 97-99% success rates. I have now dropped to 47%. Iām located in the Netherlands, so with test traffic from Germany I used to do pretty well. My guess is we now see quite a few US based customers testing as the two users reporting higher results were both from the US and they both scored above the new average.
Please also note that from the reports here it may seem like almost everyone saw a drop. This isnāt necessarily the case. People go to a forum to post about an issue. So drops in success rate are by definition over represented.
Edit: In order to make this post more complete I wanted to add that an additional change in how the uplink closes connections more aggressively after uploads are complete can cause failed uploads in the logs while the transfer actually completed. This can be seen in some cases because cancelled uploads are later deleted in the logs. So the piece was definitely there. The impact may be a lot smaller than it seems as a result of this. More info here.
In my experience update 0.33.4 improved the success rates a little again, but not back to the old level. So keep this in mind. Your node is probably working just fine. It looks worse than it is.
My current success rate stats are nearly identical percentage wise to yesterday. And my current rate of earnings looks like about $0.01 per hour. Itās a little bit of a let down from last monthā¦ that was fun! At least I now know what the approximate max traffic looks like.
Iād say weāve seen both extremes. Customers are only just getting started.
Thanks for the stats though, hadnāt looked into that myself. I canāt really rhyme that with the success rates weāre seeing on different nodes around the world. But I think my post still holds. Different sources means different nodes will see better results.
In addition, I think a lot of nodes will retire with graceful exit as well, as theyāll probably will not be willing to āwaitā for it to grow, which in addition will increase traffic on the nodes that stay.
As you can see, successful downloads dropped quite a bit in January during the high traffic testing. But I canāt complain, still got ~3.5TB egress with all my nodes on my 80/20 MBit connection. Now with less traffic my success rate is back above average.
Like most others, my success rate for uploads did drop quite a bit in the last few days. However, I also noticed that, relative to successful uploads, my nodeās reported ingress traffic has stayed about the same, while successful uploads decreased.
Ingress traffic is only tracked for successful uploads from what I can tell, so this means that Iām receiving fewer successful uploads now, but the average size of each uploaded piece has increased substantially. Iām actually receiving just about the same amount of data per second in successful uploads, even though the number of successful uploads has decreased.
