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2023-06-07 15:36:01
in reply to nevent1q…fm7r

gb [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-05-31 📝 Original message:Aren't you calculating ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-05-31
📝 Original message:Aren't you calculating bandwidth for a singly-connected node? A "highly
connected" miner could have 30-100 node connections so you probably need
to increase your traffic estimates by that factor.

I.e. For 100MB blocks, 30-100 Mbps and $60-$100 per day data costs.

> You should be able to handle 20MB blocks no problem; if I round up to
> 100MB per block that works out to 1.3Mbps.
>
>
> We also use Aliyun and Linode cloud services for block
> propagation. As of May 2015, the price is 0.13 U.S. dollars
> per GB for
> 100Mbps connectivity at Aliyun.
>
>
> That speed will handle 20MB blocks no problem.
>
>
> If each 20MB block is 100MB of data up/down the wire (I'm vastly
> over-estimating, after optimization it should be 40MB) then you'll be
> paying...uhhh:
>
>
> 0.1 GB / block-data-on-wire * 144 blocks/day * 30.5 days/month * 0.13
> $ / GB = $57
>
>
> Less than $2 per day in bandwidth.
>
> For a single cross-border TCP
> connection, it would be certainly far slower than 12.5 MB/s.
>
>
> That's OK, you'll 1.3Mbps or less


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