[atlas] Getting More Traffic for Probe

You maybe right. I will wait a couple of weeks until my probe is tagged
stable. It is fairly stable now, I fixed the boot problem and installed new
OpenWRT router which works great for me. If somebodycan manually tag and
shift traffic, it will handle without problem. Nevertheless, I will wait
and report back.

Thanks for suggestions! I hope this probe will be better utilized. As I
said, it can easily handle 20Mbit/s (even more).

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 2:17 PM Antonios Chariton <daknob.mac at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In general I believe the RIPE Atlas network is heavily underutilized. I
> can confirm the low traffic too:
>
>
> Now there are a few reasons that this could happen, but in general I
> believe the entire network is like this, and not just specific probes..
>
> The reasons can be:
>
> i) People just don’t have anything to measure, so they don’t send new
> measurements
> ii) People think credits are actually super important, and want to keep
> them
> iii) People believe current measurements are too expensive, so
> theoretically if everything costed 10x less, there would be 10x the
> measurements.
>
> Now personally I think that it’s just (i), but I can’t actually really
> tell. Changing the available bandwidth from the RIPE Atlas page seems to
> not affect the bandwidth used. On the other hand, somehow the traffic is
> relatively constant at 7-8 Kb/s, and then moved up to like 8-9 Kb/s.. I do
> not think RIPE Atlas has 100% evenly distributed measurements, so there’s
> possibly some mechanism to distribute the load uniformly?
>
> On 25 Aug 2018, at 15:02, Eren Türkay <turkay.eren at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running a probe [0] at my home and I have 240Mbit connection from my
> provider. When I look at the graphs, this probe is basically sitting idle
> doing nothing! I can spare 20Mbit/s easily for measurements to keep the
> usage. However, I do not know how to achieve that.
>
> Is it possible to attract more traffic to my probe? I'm sure there is some
> algorithm involved to distribute the work so if you can please get me some
> more work, I'd be pleased [obviously more credits to spare :)]
>
> [0] https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/31252/
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>     . 73! DE TA1AET
>       http://erenturkay.com/
>
>
>

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