My bold statement if you read it correctly is everyone who has talked to me about the issue. Misrepresenting my words does no one any good.
But I am glad you see that people are reducing node count due to traffic as well
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Hey @Josh @neo @aatonnomicc @scottefc86 @Mightyfool @Traktion
Would you guys mind posting your node count and what setup you are using?
I’m interested in how much of the total node count it accounts for and whether you are using port forwarding or UPnP. Just thinking, if we were to do a testnet to look into the issues, it would possibly be helpful if the host types were more representative of the setup we actually have in the real network, as opposed to just using a bunch of cloud nodes that are directly connected to the internet. We have different types of networking emulation available.
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200 nodes on a dedicated Ubuntu server with port forwarding. 2000 Mbps up and down.
I Think it’s worthwhile tagging @Dimitar as well since he is running 1100 nodes (25% of the network)
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Ah cool, I wasn’t aware of that.
Yeah, Dimitar, if you could chime in here too, that would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Right now I have 3 machines, all the same model and configuration, 2 on starlink and one on the landline ISP. The 2 machines on starlink are the only thing using the link
- Starlink - 40 nodes - port forward - using 1/2 the uplink b/w (20 Mbits/s)
- Starlink - 40 nodes - port forward - using 1/2 the uplink b/w (20 Mbits/s)
- landline - 10 nodes - port forward - using approx 30Mbits/s to 50Mbits/s
The landline was 20 earlier but was maxing out the 80Mbit/s uplink and wrecking at times the internet experience for household
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My hardware is an evolving situation, but I currently have 5 mini PCs, with various used hardware.
3 have 2TB disks, 2 have about 250GB disks.
Each box is set to have a max of 100 nodes, but they adjust down depending on CPU load, memory usage and available storage.
I allocate about 15mbit outbound bandwidth per box and unlimited download bandwidth (about 3x of outbound, currently).
Port forwarding is used to direct traffic to the right box.
Currently, this results in about 225 nodes in total.
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Thanks.
Sorry, you didn’t mention whether it was port forwarding or UPnP. I’d be interested to know that please.
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368 on a bunch of Wyse thin clients with port forwarding, 2000Mbps symmetrical.
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50 nodes Debian server with port forwarding
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630 nodes (90 each on 7 dedicated micro-format pc’s) using port-forwarding. Each pc running Windows 11 and CLI with 4TB NVMe hard drive which is also hosting the data. Gigabit internet but MikroTik router is rate-limiting to 250Mbps up and down. UDP Timeout set to 5 seconds and UDP Stream Timeout to 120 seconds to reduce number of concurrent connections on router (currently about 35000). All pc’s have been earning at an average rate of about .02 ANT’s per day per 1000 nodes.
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100 nodes total using ANM on two dell pcs 900Mbps up and down port forwarded. Have 5/6 machines if needed and all have 1tb hdd
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| Location | Current Node Count | Node Count last week | UPNP? |
|---|---|---|---|
| My House | 10 | 20 | No |
| Friend 1 | 5 | 10 | Yes |
| Friend 2 | 4 | 10 | Yes |
| Friend 3 | 5 | 15 | Yes |
| Friend 4 | 5 | 20 | Yes |
| Friend 5 | 4 | 5 | Yes |
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Ah cool, thanks for letting me know about your setup.
Interesting to know we have one Windows user running so many nodes.
Just out of curiosity, are you using antctl or do you just have your own setup?
And we will have automatic upgrades coming for Windows very soon, hopefully this week.
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Cool.
Thanks for letting me know about your setup too.
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Thank you for the response from everyone I asked.
Very helpful.
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Using antctl. I’m guessing that will be changing soon. 
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Just to verify, that’s 600 less than yesterday right? Had to scale them down due to traffic?
Also, I noticed that you still use the same amount of bandwidth as you did yesterday, but now with half the amount of nodes. They’re also using 20% of the traffic I’m seeing while you still have 300% of nodes. I wonder if restricting (or bottleneck) the bandwidth on nodes is causing some issues as well?
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No, my machine’s load went up (over 1000) because of the automatic update and I temporarily lowered the nodes. I’m receiving payments and haven’t noticed any problems.
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By my count, between those who commented here in the last few posts we have nearly 1/2 the network. 
That may not seem like a good thing but it is kind of how I imagined things would start.
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