[tor-relays] Advertised Bandwidth vs. RelayBandwidthRate

teor teor at riseup.net
Wed Apr 8 09:35:47 UTC 2020


Hi,

> On 8 Apr 2020, at 16:04, petrarca at protonmail.ch wrote:
> 
> So, could it be that there is just a wording issue on tor-metrics - to me "observed" and "advertised" bandwidth are two different things but they seem to be the same on tor-metrics. I think I do understand the observed bw, however, still struggle to understand the advertised bw.

The advertised bandwidth is the bandwidth the relay is capable of sustaining:
https://metrics.torproject.org/glossary.html#advertised-bandwidth

In practice, it's the minimum of the rate, burst, and observed.

You can find all their definitions in the metrics glossary.

T
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