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?
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 :)]
Regards,