Bandwidth Sharing FAQs + Troubleshooting

[pulsar arrow]

sometimes it took 'run as admin' and itd pop right up in task manager

can't run container cus Ive only got 8gbs of ram and it takes like 3

gota game too yk

[warm zenith]

@upbeat shuttle May I ask, what version of windows are you running?

[upbeat shuttle]

I run Windows 10 on my laptops (that just run bandwidth sharing), and Windows 11 on my other PC (bandwidth sharing + containers)
Though containers should work just as fine on Windows 10 as on 11

[warm zenith]

It looks like it's not a version issue then.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[peak terrace]

you can take it from old sgs-client logs if its run before

[tropic vortex]

it's probably something very simple

that we missed

is your isp blacklisting salad

by any chance

[tulip jolt]

how do you even check wether if its blacklisted or not

[tropic vortex]

your isp should have some kind of portal

[warm zenith]

?

What do you mean by that?

[tropic vortex]

whr do you renew ur scubscription

[warm zenith]

(also, I don't believe so as Salad works fine except for gpu and containers)

[tropic vortex]

thr might be something thr

[warm zenith]

Frontier communications

[tropic vortex]

ok, go check thr

[warm zenith]

Nothing shows there but the bill.

[tropic vortex]

go to 198.168. i forgot

yk

that ipp address

the local one

[warm zenith]

You mean the router settings?

I've configured my own router (using my own).

[fluid summit]

try reinstallaing windows

[frigid reef]

this has nothing to do with getting the machine id

[fluid summit]

well

it can work

[warm zenith]

I'd prefer not to, although that it a very possible solution.

[fluid summit]

when i chuck my chromebook it magically starts working so

theres a possibility

have you tried reinstalling salad itself

[warm zenith]

I have, too many times.

[fluid summit]

Oh

yeah its a bit buggy

[warm zenith]

It's best as a last resort though.

[fluid summit]

mine randomly pauses itself

-_-

[warm zenith]

I'll ask if my friend can run it.

[fluid summit]

k

[frigid reef]

how does restarting your pc get you your machine id without running salad

[fluid summit]

*Resetting

your starting fresh basically

sometimes things just work okay, you know how to restart your computer and things just work?

[frigid reef]

that still has nothing to do with getting your machine id

[fluid summit]

im talking abut his sgs problem

with bandwith

btw

[frigid reef]

ah wait for a job to be available :D

[fluid summit]

he said something about salad not downloading/opening sgs

[frigid reef]

as i said wait for a job to be available :D

[fluid summit]

oh

[warm zenith]

Oh, about that, I've been waiting for over a month now 💀

100/100mbps

[pulsar arrow]

I feel bad for y'all bruh

I just restarted salad and sgs started running like instantly

100/22 internet

[frigid reef]

oh for me my pc restarted last night, was off for like 6 hours, turned it on and started back up again and getting jobs

[pulsar arrow]

yeah nicee

[upbeat shuttle]

yeah mine have been relatively easy to start back up again

[tulip jolt]

i wonder if theyve increased the limit

[upbeat shuttle]

even when the speed test results thought i had only 60/12

[reef linden]

yo

my sgs isn't downloading

how can I fix it

[frigid reef]

Check pins, if that dosent work we don’t know contact official support

[peak terrace]

so stupid

why at start up hhhhhhhh

right when it fights even with built in windows things for bandwidth

its really going to town on my laptop lmao

literally saturating my internet connection

maybe thats why i'm barely getting any bandwidth on my PC

i now realise again why I wanted to transition to Linux fully

Windows is so incredibly bloated

And not just because I have lots of programs installed, there are so many built in windows services that hog resources

it do be doing this again

[tulip jolt]

idk remove salad from startup ?

or it does test even if its not in startup

[peak terrace]

its always been disabled in startup

its not launching salad, its launching librespeed-cli.exe which is the program that tests bandwidth speed

[warm zenith]

Official support just gives the copy and pasted message of "Wait for a workload."

[frigid reef]

have you tried waiting for a workload

[warm zenith]

One month over by now.

[frigid reef]

i mean there isnt much we can do personally here so

[warm zenith]

Yeah, it's really till they fix the issue or "find a workload."

[frigid reef]

its not really a issue though

[warm zenith]

I mean,

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[frigid reef]

at the end of the day there is a limited amount of jobs available

are you in us by any chance

[warm zenith]

Yes, I am.

[frigid reef]

yeah thats where im pretty sure the limit on people running it at the same time is hit

so

just gotta get lucky

[warm zenith]

Well, I guess I've gotten insanely unlucky.

Thanks for the info though.

[frigid reef]

have you had it on for a straight month or do you keep stopping salad

[warm zenith]

I've had it on for a straight month.

(if this helps, the sgs-client files were never downloaded)

[frigid reef]

whats your internet speeds in the ndm log file

[warm zenith]

75/52mbps on ethernet (using a wifi extender) or 95/74mbps on wifi

[frigid reef]

can you send your latest ndm file

as well as latest normal log

[warm zenith]

Shoot, I forgot my IP was in that.

[frigid reef]

my bad i keep forgetting its in those files

[frigid reef]

you got the latest normal log too

[warm zenith]

Yeah, hold on.

I'll be deleting this shortly.

(although, recently, I've exited and launched Salad in order to attempt to get Bandwidth Sharing working)

[frigid reef]

ye was it around 09:20

but yeah i dont see any other errors so

nothing on your end from what i can see

[warm zenith]

I guess I've been real unlucky

[gleaming wraith]

i swear bandwidth sharing is so broken

[frigid reef]

its not

alot of people dont understand that there is limited jobs

so it takes time to start at points

but all they hear are people getting jobs easily just because they are in a different location

i mean yeah there is the odd issue but they are easily fixed by the user

[quick osprey]

Has anyone figured out a working solution as to why it’s not working for some people?

Because when I try to use it, the sgs program doesn’t even show up in my task manager. I have had it running for 2 days now and it hasn’t done anything. I did have someone show me how to manually install it, but it’s still not working.

[upbeat shuttle]

out of curiosity, what country are you in?

[fluid summit]

wow

i guess usa rules are really strict

last week iw as running it consistently with 0% downtime

but my internet went out for a couple minutes in the middle of the night

ever since i havent been getting any jobs

[tropic vortex]

If I shut down Salad app and reopen it will it re-run the speed test?

Because hen it won't have to fight with the windows stuff

also do these logs mean i am not earninng anything

[chilly peak]

BidirThroughput being anything but 0 means you are sharing internet

[tropic vortex]

so that means i am sharing internet?

i dont know whr to find bidirthroughput

[chilly peak]

yes

[tropic vortex]

ah alr

ty

[chilly peak]

you can use ctrl+f

[tropic vortex]

whr dod i find the place where it checks my speed?

[chilly peak]

the log file for that?

[tropic vortex]

yes

[chilly peak]

its under the ndm folder

[tropic vortex]

ty

[tropic vortex]

should i be worried that the last time it seems to have checked my speed was 3 days ago

[chilly peak]

when was the last time you restarted your pc/salad

[tropic vortex]

6 days ago

approxx

[chilly peak]

hm well it doesnt seem to have affected you sharing bandwidth

so i think you're fine

[tropic vortex]

i have 2 devices sharing bandwidth

and i know ooone of them isnt

idk which one tho

[chilly peak]

you can check their logs

and find the "bidirthroughput" values

if its anything but 0 its sharing internet

[tropic vortex]

alr, ty

are logs local to each devics

or are they shared

across all accounts

[chilly peak]

local

[upbeat shuttle]

[peak terrace]

FINALLYYYYY

hhhh

[frigid reef]

alright time to crash your pc

[peak terrace]

less gooo

[peak terrace]

how comes

[quick osprey]

USA

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm

I've got a theory that the US has hit the max number of bandwidth sharing users, as someone else has also thonked

[frigid reef]

[quick osprey]

frig, so what should I do?

[frigid reef]

just enable bandwidth and wait, thats all you can do

[quick osprey]

does it prioritize higher internet speeds?

[frigid reef]

yes and uptime

so for me i just always keep it on and if i want to stop something else i just disable it

[quick osprey]

[frigid reef]

yes though also uptime, they much rather someone with lower speeds with them running salad 24/7 then someone that stops it every so often, but again they are not gonna throw out a current person sharing bandwidth just to slot you in

you just got to wait for someone to stop using bandwidth till the point where it slots you in

[quick osprey]

Oh okay

would bandiwth sharing work on a server too?

[upbeat shuttle]

Assuming it meets the minimum requirements of Salad and Bandwidth Sharing (check the pins!), I don't see why not :)

[peak terrace]

i get a consistent 20mbps up on my broadband when there is no traffic from other devices on my network

yet librespeed picks such silly servers that it reports this

like bruh

[quick osprey]

what if my server doesnt have a gpu?

[chilly peak]

as long as it has a supported cpu

that's fine

[quick osprey]

Okay

[tropic vortex]

it's not servers

it's because it'd done on startup

so all lthe other apps andd windows processes are fighting for bandwidth

like idk you might have discord, and a bunch of other apps

[peak terrace]

it wasnt in this case, it was done after I did a fresh install of salad

i took specific care to make sure the bandwidth test started when the computer wasn't using any internet

[tropic vortex]

whr r u

[peak terrace]

uk

[tropic vortex]

idk

sry

[peak terrace]

it is making funny pattern

[tropic vortex]

idk im probs wrong but maybe it is like downloading then uploading then downloading

[peak terrace]

yes that's right

that is what it is doing

very observant

[tropic vortex]

lol

[tulip jolt]

but dont servers have blocked ips

because the ip needs to be residential

[frigid reef]

you do know you can have a server at home right

[tulip jolt]

i was gonna say unless its self hosted

🙄

[junior shoal]

so this thread now is like the channel for bandwith discussing?,lol

[tulip jolt]

its like a mega thread

[frigid reef]

yes

[olive escarp]

is bandwidth sharing enables everywhere

like in the uk for eaxmple

also it coudl be cool to see what is earning you the most

[frigid reef]

bandwidth sharing is only available in the uk, usa and Germany atm

[olive escarp]

oh sick

[olive escarp]

wwb this

is there a way to see how much im earning

[olive escarp]

htis oops

[frigid reef]

if you wanna submit a feature request its best done through the reddit

#salad-feedback-old

[olive escarp]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaladChefs/comments/yubc1r/breakdown_earnings/

[gleaming shell]

last time i got a bandwidth job is almost a month now

3 days away

[fluid summit]

sheesh'

[quick osprey]

[thin hare]

then how do you uninstall the workloadqs

the app interface was better than this widjet

[thin hare]

100% agree

[gleaming shell]

Tbh this would be a very nice feature

[olive escarp]

how can you check when you last got a bandwidth job?

[gleaming shell]

I look at when my bandwidth sharing logs were last modified

[olive escarp]

where is the logfile stored?

btw do you know if a vpn like 1.1.1.1 stops bandwidth earning

[gleaming shell]

I think it does

[olive escarp]

okay thanks

[gleaming shell]

If you open the salad app then click "show logs" it should be In one of the folders

Idk what the folder looks like now since I haven't gotten a bandwidth job in so long

[olive escarp]

i've got loads

last one was yesterday

before i turned on

thng

[olive escarp]

do you know how bandwidth sharing works? does it start a local server?

i've added everything to the excude list

in cloudflare warp but idk

[gleaming shell]

Not really
All I know is that your bandwidth is used for streaming services n stuff I think

[olive escarp]

alright thanks

[peak terrace]

undisclosed streaming services use your internet connection to relay data across multiple residential IP addresses

from what i understand at least

[olive escarp]

so no way really

btw i just turned off my vpn and i've waited an hour but i've stopped receiving any jobs

i usually get much more then this

[peak terrace]

restart salad

whitelist sgs-client.exe in firewall

make sure your ndm logs show more than 10mbps upload

enable then disable gpu/cpu mining while bw sharing is on

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1021501189977813002/1036389025038225439/unknown.png using my spectacular low effort guide

[olive escarp]

thanks

[subtle condor]

I am getting so many jobs right now it's crazy

[tropic vortex]

nice

[somber leaf]

global support when

[peak terrace]

soon™️

[tulip jolt]

time to become a salad engineer and make it global

[frigid reef]

From my knowledge engineering isn’t the issue it’s actually getting companies that want our bandwidth

[gleaming shell]

Overclockable routers/wifi adapters when

[subtle condor]

There was a router I saw once that had a CPU that was clocked to 8 GHz

[shrewd terrace]

Linus tech Tips released a video 6 days ago " Your Router Sucks. Build Your Own Instead!"

[tulip jolt]

time to make a company that needs lots of bandwidth power globally and partner with salad

[tropic vortex]

uhm

you want to make a loss?

[tropic vortex]

your pc likely will only haave 5ghz and 2.4ghz channels, so overclocking it breaks your internet

[frigid reef]

watch me

[gleaming shell]

Overclocking human heart when

[tropic vortex]

[tropic vortex]

[frigid reef]

thats already done

some people even get a upgrade

where they have to carry their own power supply

and pump

[gleaming shell]

Lvad ppl?

[frigid reef]

[full pagoda]

?

Attach an antenai to your roof

[subtle condor]

My earnings seem to have been capped or something.... and salad doesn't seem to work on more than one device anymore

sgs-client just doesn't do anything, but then when I pause salad on my main pc, it starts working again ??

[peak terrace]

what's overclocking got to do with the tx frequencies

[peak terrace]

it does, its just a thing with librespeed being crap and using the worst possible servers to test bandwidth speed

[subtle condor]

it's not about the librespeed, I got that working fine

Download rate: 535.50 Mbps Upload rate: 26.97 Mbps

Salad should totally add a retest speed button or something

[gleaming shell]

Yes

They should also start the speed test one minute after your pc boots as other startup apps can affect your internet speed

[subtle condor]

mhm

[obtuse fossil]

that must be what kim kardashian did

[tropic vortex]

cos clockc is measured in hrtz

scinetifically

overclocking a light bulb isd possible

if you have something that turns it from say 50hz to 60 hz

[peak terrace]

?

yeah but what's that got to do with overclocking a computer causing a difference in wifi reception

[tropic vortex]

so when you increase the band of the wifi, it means it increases the clock of the wifi thing that sends data to your pc

your pc doesnt recognise, say 2.6ghz, only 2.4 and 5

it simply doesnt have hardware that can interpret connections on that band, with that clock

i'm not speaking about the processor inside the router, i mean the thing that sends data to y our pc in the routher

[warm zenith]

You would have to change your mains

Aka power source

[zealous vortex]

so bandwidth sharing if i use it does it raise my data if i had a data cap? not sure if i have one just curious

[junior shoal]

the what?

[zealous vortex]

would it raise my data cap if i had one?

[junior shoal]

@chilly peak , Do you get the question?, i dont for some reason, Maybe you can help him

[chilly peak]

Well if course it will count to the data cap

[upbeat shuttle]

If you have a data cap, I wouldn't recommend using bandwidth sharing

[tulip jolt]

inb4 using all your data for speed test alone

[peak terrace]

you realise rf modulators use their own clock generators right?

its not like one main clock that controls everything in a system

different parts use different clock generators

like overclocking your cpu won't overclock your gpu

your cpu thermal throttling down in frequency doesn't cause the gpu to throttle down

in the same way that overclocking the cpu has absolutely nothing to do with wifi

the wifi rf frontend will still be tuned to whatever frequency band it's meant to be on

[quick osprey]

if anyone is having issues with bandwidth sharing, just use something else.

[full pagoda]

Oh

[gleaming wraith]

like what

honeygain sucks ass

[tulip jolt]

most earn less in a month than salad in a day

[gleaming wraith]

but then salad bandwidth sharing takes a month to work

[peak terrace]

in my experience all you need for it to work consistently is for librespeed-cli.exe to report >10mbps upload speed and for sgs-client.exe to be whitelisted in antivirus and firewall

once that is all done then it should work

however it has taken me multiple attempts for the bandwidth speed test to work properly because it often automatically selects really bad servers so badly reports upload speed

[gleaming wraith]

yeah well it's above that mate

[upbeat shuttle]

What is Bandwidth Sharing?

Bandwidth sharing is, well, sharing your bandwidth!
Salad has partnered with companies that have a need for large bandwidth throughput in certain regions - Like a VPN or streaming service that struggles to meet the video streaming demand of people connected to their servers in, say, Germany.
Salad helps relieve this load off said company's servers, and instead streams the video (or whatever other content it may be) through a Salad Chef located in that region instead!
Salad guarantees that your bandwidth is only used for streaming content / data from legal, reputable sites.

You can read more about it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240223073612/https://salad.com/blog/high-bandwidth-jobs/
And here's some top facts about Bandwidth Sharing: https://web.archive.org/web/20231227015740/https://salad.com/blog/top-5-facts-about-bandwidth-sharing/

[upbeat shuttle]

Minimum requirements
Pins last updated 17/05/2026

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• You must be in one of the supported countries, found in this pinned message

• You should ideally be running the latest version of Salad, and be on the latest version of Windows 10/11 64-bit.
  Though Bandwidth Sharing may be able to work on older versions, it's recommended to be on the latest version if possible.
  You can download the latest version of Salad at https://salad.com/download

• Your minimum upload and download speeds should be at least 10-15mbps
  -# Your ping should ideally be less than 100ms
  You can see your latest speed test results by heading to the latest log file at C:\ProgramData\Salad\logs\ndm and seeing the final Download Rate and Upload Rate numbers.
  Or you can just run this script in Powershell:

Get-Content (Get-ChildItem C:\ProgramData\Salad\logs\ndm | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | Select-Object -last 1).FullName | Select-String "rate:|Ping:"

If your speeds are below 15mbps for upload / download, this may be why Bandwidth Sharing doesn't start for you.
To make Salad run another speed test, quit the Salad app, then restart salad.bowl.service in Task Manager. Restarting your PC will also make Salad run another speed test, though results may be slower this way because the speed test has to fight other apps for CPU resources on startup.

• Your IP must be residential. Business / Datacenter IPs will not work.
  You can use the following websites to see whether your IP is marked as being one of these:
  ||https://www.ipqualityscore.com/ip-reputation-check
  https://www.ipburger.com/ip/
  https://ipinfo.io/
  https://spur.us/context/ (add your IP after context/)
  https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat
  https://www.barracudacentral.org/lookups/lookup-reputation
  https://www.blacklistalert.org/||

• Your IP should have a good quality rating / 'fraud score'.
  ||You can use the above websites to see your IP quality rating. If you do have a bad quality IP Address, you might be able to refresh it by turning off your router for like 5-10 minutes, then turn it back on. If that doesn't work, you might have to contact your ISP to ask them to change your IP Address.||

• Bandwidth Sharing will not work if you are using a VM or VPN.
  ||Other features of Salad, like Container Workloads, also won't work in VMs.||

• Bandwidth Sharing is limited to a small number of devices per IP (per ISP / per household, basically).
  ||You can check out the number of gateways available in your country, in the pinned 'Additional Info' post. This is basically the maximum number of devices you can run per IP.||

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Bandwidth Sharing FAQs

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• How do I enable Bandwidth Sharing?

||Open Salad, head to the Performance tab, at the bottom you should see an option to enable Bandwidth Sharing.
If you do not see this option, then you are likely not in one of the supported countries. Check out the pinned messages for the list of currently supported countries.||

• When will Bandwidth Sharing release to My country or Globally?!

||Bandwidth Sharing support is currently on a per-country rollout basis. (Refer to the pinned messages for currently supported countries)
Salad is continually trying to expand Bandwidth Sharing to more countries, but Salad cannot make these decisions on their own.
Salad's Bandwidth Sharing customers - The companies that pay Salad to run Bandwidth Sharing jobs - are in control of whether a country is supported. Because the customers are in control, we just have to wait patiently and hope Bandwidth Sharing will be supported in our country soon.

Countries with high average residential internet speeds and low average latency may be more likely to be supported sooner than other countries.||

• Why am I not earning anything from Bandwidth Sharing, despite sgs-client.exe running in Task Manager?! (Might particularly apply to the USA)
  ||Unfortunately, some countries' customers' gateways see very little traffic, and because we're paid per the amount of data that gets throughput, you could end up earning very little compared to if you were connected to a different gateway.
  If you notice this behaviour, you can try disabling bandwidth sharing, waiting a couple seconds for sgs-client.exe to exit, then re-enable bandwidth sharing. If you're lucky, you might get assigned a different gateway that sees more traffic.||

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• How can I tell if Bandwidth Sharing is working?
  ||Open Task Manager, and look for a background process named sgs-client.exe
  If this is running, and it's using network traffic, then bandwidth sharing should be working!
  You can see how much bandwidth has been used by heading to Windows Settings > Network & Internet > Data usage. You should be able to see a breakdown of each app's individual usage here. Exact steps may vary if you're on Windows 11.

Alternatively you can use Glasswire - Here is an older version of Glasswire that doesn't have half the features paywalled: https://download.glasswire.com/f/glasswire-setup-2.3.449-full.exe - Or here for a direct download: #1021501189977813002 message ||

• Why is Bandwidth Sharing ('sgs-client.exe') not running / using any of my bandwidth?
  ||Bandwidth Sharing jobs / throughput isn't guaranteed - This depends on the demands of Salad's customers. Their need for our bandwidth may fluctuate throughout the day, and over time.
  If you're in a supported country and meet the minimum requirements, all you can really do is wait, and hope you get lucky.

While sgs-client may run, that doesn't guarantee that you'll receive any Bandwidth Sharing throughput just yet.
This does at least mean that you're high up in the queue to share bandwidth, at least :)
Keep chopping and you should hopefully see some earnings coming in soon.||

• How much can I earn with Bandwidth Sharing?
  ||How much you'll earn will depend on many different factors - mainly your internet speeds, country, stability (uptime), and potentially your average latency.
  Typical earnings can be somewhere between 50c a day, up to a couple dollars per day.
  You can check out posts in #show-off-your-earnings where people are using Bandwidth Sharing to see their earnings!||

• Can I earn more by running Bandwidth Sharing for longer?
  ||Yes, absolutely! Salad will see users' PCs that have been running Bandwidth Sharing for longer periods at a time as being more 'trusted' and reliable, and will send more bandwidth their way.||

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• Will Bandwidth Sharing slow down the internet speeds for other devices on my network?
  ||Short answer - it's possible, but not completely.
  Long answer - It depends on how much bandwidth Salad is using. It could be using very little bandwidth, which would not be noticeable at all by other devices. Or in other cases, it could be using quite a bit of your bandwidth - in which case, other devices may experience minor speed slowdowns.
  Though other devices should not come to a complete halt, as your router should intelligently divvy up the available bandwidth between all of your devices.||

• How long should it take until I start earning with Bandwidth Sharing?
  or

• Why am I not earning anything, despite sgs-client.exe running?

||It depends on your position in the 'queue'. People that have already been running Salad for hours - even days - will be Salad's first choice for giving Bandwidth Sharing jobs to.
There is also a lot of luck involved - Some people can start earning immediately after starting, and some people don't start seeing earnings until hours after starting. Just be patient and see.||

• Why is my upload speed much lower than my download speed?
  ||This is unrelated to Salad's Bandwidth Sharing, but I thought I'd include this here.
  This is often caused by older copper infrastructure being in place, which sacrifices upload speed in favour of better download speeds.
  Good ISPs and connections (fibre to the property) will offer fast symmetrical speeds - both your upload and download speeds are the same.||

• I have a limited data internet plan - Should I still use Bandwidth Sharing?
  ||Short answer: No. You should not run Bandwidth Sharing - or really Salad at all - with a limited data internet plan.

Long answer: Still No.
If you have a limited data internet plan, you'd want to check what that limit is - it's sometimes called a 'FUP' (Fair Use Policy).
If you're unsure if you have a data cap on your internet plan, check your contract with your ISP, or contact them / someone who might know.

You'd then want to figure out roughly how much of that limit you'd typically use without running Salad, and subtract that from your limit. This will be roughly how much spare data you have for Salad to use.
Next, you'd want to monitor Salad's network usage, either through Windows (Settings > Network & Internet > Data usage) or through third-party software like Glasswire. If Salad gets close to exceeding your 'spare data limit', you should disable Bandwidth Sharing. You can do this by opening the Salad widget > Performance tab > Configure Hardware > Scroll down; Configure workload types manually > Untick 'Video Streaming'.

GPU Container workloads will also use up a lot of your data cap, as it needs to download the workloads and AI models that it uses. The amount of data used varies, but can reach up to multiple terabytes per month.||

• Should I disable my firewall / open ports for Salad?

||It is not recommended to disable any of your Firewalls for Salad. You should not open any ports for Salad either. These are unnecessary steps that WILL leave your network or PC exposed.
However, network-wide firewalls or ad blockers, like a Pihole or a very sensitive router, could potentially block some Bandwidth Sharing traffic. If you SEE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING, try exempting ONLY Salad's bandwidth sharing traffic from it.||

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Troubleshooting help

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Please read through the 'Minimum Requirements' pinned post before reading this troubleshooting guide.

• Why is the button to enable Bandwidth Sharing not showing up?
  You are probably not in a supported country. You can see the list of supported countries in the pinned posts
  Ensure that you have ticked the 'Video Streaming' option in the Performance tab > Configure Hardware > Workload Types > Configure workload types manually. This will enable Bandwidth Sharing.

• There is maximum number of people that can be running Bandwidth Sharing at any one time, on a per-country basis.
  This could be a reason for why you're not earning from Bandwidth Sharing, despite you meeting all minimum requirements.
  You could try starting Bandwidth Sharing when there's likely to be less people awake in your country to have their PC turned on running Bandwidth Sharing, like early / late in the day, or throughout the night. You might just get lucky and take someone's place right as they stop Bandwidth Sharing

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• For anyone who KNOWS and can SEE IN THEIR LOGS that Salad is FAILING TO DOWNLOAD sgs-client.exe, here is a link to sgs-client (0.1.8). You place the .zip in the C:\ProgramData\Salad\workloads\_downloads folder.
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_C1IhdiGNKcVCAUd6cWS9kQ1QfUxxq_/view
  This will NOT force Salad to run Bandwidth Sharing. This only helps if Salad's logs show that it is trying, and failing to download sgs client.

• Salad has some official information and troubleshooting guides here:
  https://support.salad.com/faq/jobs/what-is-bandwidth-sharing
  https://support.salad.com/guides/getting-jobs/getting-bandwidth-sharing-jobs
  https://support.salad.com/troubleshooting/bandwidth-sharing-jobs/bandwidth-sharing-quick-troubleshooting-guide

If you are still unable to get Bandwidth Sharing working after CAREFULLY reading through this Troubleshooting Guide and the FAQs, AND running it for at least a couple days, contact #official-support.

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Additional links / information

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BidirThroughput is the Bidirectional Throughput of bits that were transferred in the past 30 seconds.

Wanna see some more in-depth details about how this all works? Well here's some nice links that'll be updated from time to time ;)
https://salad.com/salad-gateway-service
https://salad.com/documents/Salad_Gateway_Service_Overview_Residential_IPs.pdf
||^^ backup link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240210203211/https://salad.com/documents/SGS-Overview-Deck---Dec-22.pdf||

These SGS Gateways might be useful for unblocking in your firewall. Honestly I can't be bothered to update my list, so here's a better formatted spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAQ9WmDaSFf0dTMioX1TrrQCgPWEgeVTLEUM1a8HzP0

||(sgs-NAME-gateway.salad.com:443)
UK - Rose, Marigold, Rustica(💀?), Chrysanthemum, Winston, Rose-2, Rose-3, Franklin
USA - Daffodil, Crocus, Lotus (💀?), Dandelion, Daffodil-East, Daffodil-West, Lotus-East, Lotus-West, Bell, Brockhouse, Daffodil-2
Germany - Lily
Australia / Singapore - Hyacinth, ACDC (💀?), Eucalyptus, Oliphant
Denmark, Norway, Sweden - Salvia, Iris, Daisy, Huygens (All located in Sweden)
Italy - Orchid, Cornflower, Violet
France - Carnation, Baudelaire
Japan - Cherry(💀?), Akira, Azalea
India / Hong Kong - Athelas, Henna, Wattle, Tenma
Israel - Ghaf (💀?)
Canada - Maple, Gibson
South Africa - Aloe (💀?)
Czechia - Birch, Gadolin, Hooft, Nobel, Ramanujan, Banting
Netherlands - Vanhalen, Borrel
Colombia - Pampas
Austria? - Humboldt, Mach (💀?), Wagner
Poland? - Kepler
Unused - petunia, poppy, tulip, koala||

Here's a quick rundown on what Bandwidth Sharing is all about, presented by Jared!
https://youtu.be/-gDpStCsbhE nvm dead link, here:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1021501189977813002/1234646016590872606/2022-12-16_What_is_Bandwidth_Sharing.mp4?ex=66317d34&is=66302bb4&hm=9254bb0b572efe44f257aac8f90a413c8c0a3ed28cbd011fe45a4390d2801322&

[frigid reef]

okie

[peak terrace]

a note on this, my optiplex "server" runs bandwidth sharing on unsupported hardware (i5-3470 & intel hd graphics) and it works pretty consistently, not sure if it's just an outlier case though

at least the salad client has complained of unsupported hardware every now and then

toggling CPU mining gets sgs-client.exe running

and once it's running I disable cpu and gpu mining

[upbeat shuttle]

Yeah that's why I added some uncertainty to that one

I've managed to get it working on my laptops with iGPUs, sometimes one doesn't even show the iGPU, and it struggles a lot more to get running than my PC with a GPU

[peak terrace]

also

my cousin runs bandwidth sharing on his laptop with intel graphics and it works fine

[tropic vortex]

how

[upbeat shuttle]

I've changed the wording slightly to make it a bit more uncertain

[upbeat shuttle]

epic embed fail

[tropic vortex]

how do i make salad do an internet speed check

[upbeat shuttle]

[peak terrace]

i think ozua wants you to maybe read the pins perhaps

[upbeat shuttle]

yeppers

it is safe to assume that all of my knowledge is in the pinned messages

if you can't find the answer to your question/issue after reading through the troubleshooting post, then you can ask me :)

[frigid reef]

where is the toilet in your house, i cant find it

[upbeat shuttle]

outside

[frigid reef]

ah okay, thanks

[peak terrace]

remember to make an exception to sgs-client.exe in your vpn when you use it

also probably the whole of salad

[upbeat shuttle]

yeah you'd wanna do Salad too

since that determines which region you are in, what servers the speed test connects to

[peak terrace]

💪

[upbeat shuttle]

and the VPN will also limit your bandwidth sharing speeds~

[peak terrace]

yes but

vpn causes bandwidth sharing to just completely stop

until you restart

i excluded salad twice for good measure

[gleaming wraith]

ur allowed vpn?

[frigid reef]

no vpns are allowed, he is saying to make sure to disallow it on your vpn so when he uses his vpn salad still uses his normal ip/internet

[gleaming wraith]

oh

can u use a vpn to bandwidth share is what i meant

[frigid reef]

i just said no vpns allowed

[gleaming wraith]

like it don’t work on some devices for me even though i’m uk

[frigid reef]

check pins

[gleaming wraith]

oh i read that as no, vpns are allowed lol

[frigid reef]

[peak terrace]

salad does a good job at detecting vpns

if it detects it the bandwidth sharing button will literally disappear

[frigid reef]

it dosent if the vpn is in the country

but will just block the connection

[peak terrace]

i mean

it disappeared when I was using my vpn set to atlanta

which is in the states

brrr

[tropic vortex]

why have i got no jobs for so long

[peak terrace]

not huffing enough copium

[frigid reef]

are you in the us?

[pulsar arrow]

Can you run bandwidth and container at the same time

[chilly peak]

Yes

[peak terrace]

the opposite of a memory leak

[reef linden]

bandwidth sharing aint working

had no jobs for weeks

[upbeat shuttle]

What country?

[gleaming shell]

Same
But I do only have an average of 16mbps upload

[reef linden]

i have 30mbps upload

[tropic vortex]

UK

[frigid reef]

ah well, best bet is to just wait

[tropic vortex]

i got 1 job last night

and my pc conveniently got the bsod

it was an 8 cent job

very nice

[reef linden]

can you increase capacities for bandwidth jobs or something? I'm unable to get any jobs

[chilly peak]

it’s not that simple

salad has to find partners to well.. share those bandwidth to

can’t simply change a value

[tropic vortex]

Which country are you in

[tropic vortex]

And also, there has to be customers

It's like selling a phone but no one wants a phone

[reef linden]

Germany

[reef linden]

Well OK, but mine doesn't even download

I even got a free wifi speed upgrade

So it should be more than enough

[tropic vortex]

show me your ndm logs

wait dont do that

it ahs your ip

tell me your speed shown in ndm

[full pagoda]

honey gain though works on tablets

where as salad doesnt

[gleaming wraith]

mate i earn more in salad in a day than i do in a month with honeygain

[frigid reef]

yes as its two different methods of sharing bandwidth/internet

[gleaming wraith]

also for some reason honeygain's content delivery is unavailable

[tropic vortex]

wdym

[frigid reef]

its shit anyway

[gleaming wraith]

literally, unavailable

can't turn it on

[gleaming wraith]

welp

[tropic vortex]

how many devices are running

[gleaming wraith]

that doesn't matter

1 tho

honeygain has two options

just sharing bandwidth

then content delivery

apparently content delivery pays more

according to nova that's false

[frigid reef]

salad pays alot more

just stick with salad

[tropic vortex]

no it does not

i used honeygain for a year and got $60

i used salad and got $120 in a month

[stiff wedge]

I use almost all the bandwidth sharing apps at the same time

Can make over $0.5 every day before

Now with salad it’s like $4 a day

[stiff wedge]

It does it depends if you get lucky on them choosing ur device or not

[gleaming shell]

honeygain bad

[stiff wedge]

honeygain good imo

although slow but still extra money

😄

[junior shoal]

peer2profit better

but salad is better than both

[gleaming shell]

ive never used it before

i could try it out

while bandwidth sharing for me on salad is still dead

6 a month eh
im better off just waiting until i get a bandwidth job in 2 decades

[austere spruce]

How long did it take u to get that much?

[junior shoal]

probably 1 year or so, its kinda slow

[austere spruce]

Lmao

[gleaming wraith]

horrendous

in 3 days couldn't even make a cent

with honeygain i can make it in less than half tha ttime

[stiff wedge]

Started last year summer

I also have p2p it’s also quick made over 100 with it

In 6 months

[tulip jolt]

combined

[shrewd terrace]

What I have found on bandwidth sharing for the US so far, sgs-client.exe in the ProgramData directory has to be added to the firewall. If it still doesn't start after a while, you may need to disable offloading to cpu functions of the adapter as it takes away from the cpu's ability to do containers, especially where wifi is concerned. I don't feel like trying to send this info to the dev team as it never seems to pan out. Please share with others, thanks.

[tropic vortex]

I earn $6 a day with badnwidth lol

[olive escarp]

yeah, it's.. not safe

throw it in a docker container and maybe but it still sells ips as the majority way to make money as opposed to streaming content

[gleaming shell]

6 dollars a day holy crap

I'm actually missing out on so much bc my internet speed sucks

[junior shoal]

i earned way more with peer2profit, not my problem if you live in china

[gleaming wraith]

uk actually

[peak terrace]

no jobs brrr

[gleaming shell]

It's been like that for me for over a month

[peak terrace]

dis mf got off his lazy ass and got a job

i would like to emphasize the fact that you getting a job is like

really random

some weeks i get jobs 24/7 and others i rarely get a few

[gleaming shell]

Getting a bandwidth job for me is very rare

I never get them

[upbeat shuttle]

what country?

[gleaming shell]

United states

I get an average upload speed of 16mbps tho

So yeah that could be why I'm not getting jobs

[upbeat shuttle]

oof that'd probably be why

[peak terrace]

BUMPY WEIRD

[idle wing]

oh that makes sense why i don't earn anything from bandwidth only

while having a 300+ mbps upload

[subtle condor]

This shit is crazy ong

idk what has happened in the last since 6:30 pm but it's reached 0.096

[idle wing]

damn must be nice to be in the uk where you can get a lot of jobs

[gleaming wraith]

bruh aren't u scared ur ip is gonna throttle you

[subtle condor]

My ISP doesn't throttle people :)

as long as you don't break the "fair usage policy"

[idle wing]

4 tb 💀

almost 5

i wish mine would do that too

[upbeat shuttle]

ngl any ISP that limits or throttles its customers are scummy

[subtle condor]

^

[peak terrace]

[subtle condor]

zamn

[pulsar arrow]

bandwidth be giving me panic attacks when it dips

[upbeat shuttle]

I suppose I should check my data usage

haven't checked it in a good while

not bad

not sure if I've been doing this for over a month, but windows limits my lookback to just the past 30d

[tropic vortex]

is it just me or are bandwidth earning down for you

[tropic vortex]

yoo i've shared about the same amount oo

too

like 4.3tb

[peak terrace]

it's different for everyone

[idle wing]

I wish I would get some

It’s been 4gb for me for like 7 days

[round zenith]

Did bandwidth sharing become available for all countries or still limited to the US and Germany ?

[chilly peak]

Still limited to USA uk and Germany

[full cypress]

it will come in all countries later?

atleast i am visiting us so i can do bandwidth sharing there lol

[chilly peak]

More countries will be added yeah

[tulip jolt]

isps do that?

[gleaming wraith]

they can

[upbeat shuttle]

If they're dishonest money hungry POS's, yeah

[tulip jolt]

💀

kinda sad how they can do that

[pulsar arrow]

they're legally allowed to do it during peak times

[tulip jolt]

doesnt sound like a good time

[upbeat shuttle]

A good ISP should be able to handle peak times without artificially limiting its customers because they can't be asked to expand their infrastructure to handle said peak loads

Water companies prepare for peak loads, energy companies prepare for peak loads, basically all reputable websites prepare for peak loads.
What makes ISPs any different to be excused from preparing for peak loads?

Nothing. Any ISP that limits its own customers from reaching their agreed upon speeds because of their own shortcomings are scum.

oopsie rantzua

[subtle condor]

That was very well said!

[full cypress]

What does throttle people mean

Move them up and down

[peak terrace]

it's more common on mobile data rather than broadband but yes

[tropic vortex]

It's when your speed is slowed down due

[peak terrace]

to factors such as excessive usage

[upbeat shuttle]

aka using the internet that you paid for

There's no such thing as 'excessive usage'

[pulsar arrow]

I don't think I've ever been throttled after I moved to england

but back where I used to live, the infrastructure wasn't built very well and isps used to throttle everyone to make the network atleast usable for the majority of customers

the infrastructure was so bad mobile data was cheaper and faster than broadband

unlim mobile data*

[upbeat shuttle]

yikes

[pulsar arrow]

and the country has the strongest currency in the world ☠️

[gleaming shell]

its kinda stupid when isps throttle you when you pay for unlimited data imo

[idle wing]

i remember how I signed up for AT&T fiber for the 5gb/s plan and it's unlimited

then i checked the app and it said it had a limit for 100gb

you have to ask customer service just to change it 💀

[pulsar arrow]

data cap ain't equal to bandwidth

if everyone got on netflix and started streaming 4k movies at the same time the entire network wouldn't be able to handle it

they won't upgrade their equipment since that kind of scenario is very rare and not worth the cost

[olive escarp]

bandwidth sharing the past 24 hours has just stopped Worthing

I’m in the UK and just earning nothing

[gleaming shell]

im in the us and its been like that for over a month lo

[gleaming wraith]

just restart maybe?

[gleaming wraith]

lack of jobs L

[subtle condor]

🥱

jk I'm not toxic I swear

[frigid reef]

🥱

[subtle condor]

that's more than once device though >:(

[frigid reef]

still would be 6 dollars a day if i only had 1

[subtle condor]

bandwidth?

[frigid reef]

?

[subtle condor]

are you using bandwidth

[frigid reef]

yes

[subtle condor]

mhm

maybe I should setup my laptop at my friends house and use her sky gigafast internet lul

wonder how much that'd make

[idle wing]

damn where do you live

[gleaming wraith]

only bandwidth?

[frigid reef]

i make 2 dollars on containers, i make on average between 4 to 6 dollars on bandwidth a day

depending on my luck with jobs

[gleaming shell]

i only make 2 dollars a day bc im in the us and my internet speed is 16mbps upload so my bandwidth sharing isnt working

[frigid reef]

us bandwidth sharing bad

[gleaming shell]

yeah

[frigid reef]

uk bandwidth sharing best

[gleaming shell]

last time i got a job was over a month ago

[frigid reef]

:3 we got the best $ per gb

[gleaming shell]

and i have 2 laptops running, none of them has gotten a bandwidth job in over a month

[subtle condor]

ong

The Uk sucks though

[gleaming shell]

last time i got a bandwidth job was in october 16 bruh

[gleaming wraith]

and ur bandwidth is prolly 1gbps i'm guessing

[frigid reef]

60mbps

[gleaming wraith]

wait wtf

u can't be serious

i mean i made 2 cent every 15 mins and i got 70mb/s download and 20mb/s upload

in the UK

so that's literally $1.92 in a day

[frigid reef]

i got 1 gig download, but only 60mb upload, and as bandwidth sharing downloads the data and uploads it straight away, its really only gonna use 60mbps

[gleaming wraith]

ok yeah

that might be why u earn triple my earnings

[frigid reef]

yeah your max is really 20mb/s

so i got 3x the speed, i got 3x the earnings

[idle wing]

i wish we could know where we are in the queue

[tropic vortex]

quick question what internet service provider do u use

i use virgin media

but i am considering switching

but idk which ones have good upload

virgin media sucks

[frigid reef]

i use virgin media

[tropic vortex]

o

Do you use the 1gbps plan

[frigid reef]

yes

[tropic vortex]

istg virgin provides like half the speed you buy

[frigid reef]

nope

you just bad

[tropic vortex]

1gbps customers have the new router

i think

[frigid reef]

[tropic vortex]

i still got the old one :/

shall i upgrade

do you think i will break even

on the extra £30

or whatever it is

[frigid reef]

i personally make around 150 usd, so thats 123 gbp, i personally only pay 86 gbp for my internet with other tv stuff ||what my dad wants|| so :3

though will go to 111 gbp when the 1 or 2 year discount is over

[tropic vortex]

I made around that much too with the 20 mbps upload plan 💀

$120 / month

[frigid reef]

is that just bandwidth sharing ?

[tropic vortex]

and container on 1 device

idek how though

[frigid reef]

well that is like that minimum i would make

with bandwidth alone

[tropic vortex]

i'm going to upgrade tomorrow

how long does it take for the new router to arrive

normally

[frigid reef]

within a week for me

[tropic vortex]

alr

should be soon because they have good service in central london

[low trout]

Still not BW sharing

[rich axle]

okay

[tropic vortex]

do you want help

[low trout]

Kinda. I have it enabled, and I have a pretty consistent upload and download

Upload is 400, download is 1200

[tropic vortex]

open your ndm logs, and tell me the speed you see there

dont upload it here

because it has your ip in it

[low trout]

Alright will do when I have the chance

[olive escarp]

nah bruh https://i.milo.solar/r/uFMYrSIY.png in the last 30 days salad has used this much bandwidth

how is that even possible

and i've only made like 8£ from this

[tropic vortex]

Low paying jobs

and also 1.5tb is nothing

Most bandwidth sharers are getting 6tb+

I got 4.5tb in 4 days

[olive escarp]

[tropic vortex]

idk how

and the rest of the month

salad was broken

[upbeat shuttle]

yeah, if my maths is correct, that's roughly a constant 1mbps for 30 days

[olive escarp]

lord

i hope they start makng this pay more

[rich axle]

Making a solid 10$ a day

[gleaming shell]

I'm not making anything lol

Imagine not being in the US and having a shortage of bandwidth jobs

[full sentinel]

Couldn't be me 🥹

[shrewd terrace]

So quick question, what does bandwith sharing do?

[lost raptor]

Uses internet bandwidth to generate earnings on salad.

[shrewd terrace]

So i basically give salad internet that I don't use>

?

not that i can enable it, it isn't available here yet

[subtle condor]

allows Chefs to process video streams with their idle internet connections

[upbeat shuttle]

[peak terrace]

Bandwidth sharing is well

according to the pins

[reef linden]

how can I get sgs-client.exe to download?

[upbeat shuttle]

[reef linden]

doesn't help me

alredy tried everything

it just doesn't work

[subtle condor]

😳

[upbeat shuttle]

gaming

[gleaming wraith]

in the same boat for another device

on another isp

my device at home works fine

but on a device on another isp sgs-client doesn’t download

[gleaming wraith]

2022-11-26 12:50:49.373 +00:00 [INF] Start processing HTTP request POST https://app-api.salad.io/api/v2/workloads
2022-11-26 12:50:49.374 +00:00 [INF] Sending HTTP request POST https://app-api.salad.io/api/v2/workloads
2022-11-26 12:50:49.512 +00:00 [INF] Received HTTP response headers after 136.2006ms - 200
2022-11-26 12:50:49.515 +00:00 [INF] End processing HTTP request after 142.6678ms - 200
2022-11-26 12:50:49.517 +00:00 [INF] Register provided 0 workloads

anyone know the parameters for the workload api?

[idle wing]

finally got some jobs in US it seems

[gleaming wraith]

sigh
NDM:
Download rate: 808.12 Mbps
Upload rate: 6.18 Mbps

and i'm in UK so i need upload rate at least 10

it's funny cos on my main device my upload is 20 and ndm detects 20

[gleaming wraith]

upload is initially into the 200s but falls rapidly

log file

[gleaming wraith]

rebooted and now it says 60 which is good

[stiff wedge]

Nah bro u be cappin

[gleaming shell]

imagine working bandwidth shating

[low trout]

So, I reviewed all of the logs and everything, and still nothing when it comes to getting the bandwidth thing to start\

My PC is getting ~15mbps up, and ~400 down

[full pagoda]

S

Sus

[restive rover]

This is omega thread

[gleaming shell]

yes

[round jacinth]

What is ur upload speed?

[gleaming wraith]

will earnings decline after they fix bandwidth sharing? it's in beta right

[upbeat shuttle]

'fix'?

[gleaming wraith]

sgs-client don't download

[upbeat shuttle]

are you in the US?

[gleaming wraith]

UK

[upbeat shuttle]

hm

[gleaming wraith]

it's odd bc main laptop at home fires up in like 2 mins

[upbeat shuttle]

have you read through the troubleshooting guide in #1021501189977813002 thoroughly?

[gleaming wraith]

at office it doesn't download at all

yes i've tried

made sure i'm above 20mb/s upload

my speeds are like 700+ both ways

ndm detects that at the start of the test but then it drops quickly

[upbeat shuttle]

what are the final download/upload speed results?

[gleaming wraith]

like i said above 20 for the upload

and somewhere in the hundreds for download

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm

[gleaming wraith]

i suspect it might be isp intercepting but idk how i could possibly test that

[upbeat shuttle]

have you already tried restarting the PC a couple times to see if Salad chooses a different server for the speed test?

[gleaming wraith]

yes

no effect

it picks the one that's always closest to me

[upbeat shuttle]

hmmm

[gleaming wraith]

my most recent ndm log said 2mb/s upload

but the one where i was trying bandwidth sharing had like 70

didn't work

the salad log is also not very helpful

[upbeat shuttle]

I'm not sure if it'll help, but I would try turning off the router for like 10 minutes, if possible, then turning it back on
I'm pretty sure this should change your IP, or hopefully at least fix something

[gleaming wraith]

static ip

[upbeat shuttle]

oof

[gleaming wraith]

ip isn't flagged, similar ratings to my ip at home

[upbeat shuttle]

well it's worth a shot anyways

I'm not sure if I can think of anything else uhhh

it's a home ISP, right?

[gleaming wraith]

yes

not organisation

sorry datacenter

if i send you the log file will it be any use?

[upbeat shuttle]

mmm sure, I could look through it in like 20m since I'm on my phone atm

[gleaming wraith]

you can use container and bandwidth sharing together right

[upbeat shuttle]

yeah it should be possible

I've managed to get my PC running bandwidth sharing and containers simultaneously

Though I think I had to get the container running first, then disabling CPU and messing around with enabling and disabling GPU until bandwidth sharing started, then enabled CPU so containers stays alive

[gleaming wraith]

@upbeat shuttle
tried running C:\WINDOWS\system32\wsl.exe --distribution salad-enterprise-linux --exec /opt/salad/spinner in cmd:

do you get a different output?

[reef linden]

25mbps

[strong dagger]

Hey, the option to enable bandwidth sharing disappeared after I restart my PC.

Anyone have any idea of why?

[upbeat shuttle]

Have you tried restarting your PC again?

[strong dagger]

I'll try

[mighty fractal]

what does it mean if im listed in barracuda

[upbeat shuttle]

mmmm

well the vast majority of those report your IP as being safe, so a couple negatives shouldn't matter

[reef linden]

how can i check my ip safety

[mighty fractal]

ok but what the frick is barracuda is the only one that im listed

[strong dagger]

3rd restart and now it won't detect my CPU

another restart? 🙂

[upbeat shuttle]

[mighty fractal]

this is getting worse

[upbeat shuttle]

yikes uhhh

I'm not really sure what causes this kinda issue

[reef linden]

what is that website

[upbeat shuttle]

maybe just restarting Salad, rather than your pc this time, might work

[strong dagger]

tried as well

[mighty fractal]

https://www.dnsbl.info/

here is the link

[strong dagger]

I think restart my whole PC

[mighty fractal]

click quick ip lookup

[strong dagger]

would fix it

[mighty fractal]

try

[reef linden]

am I ok

[mighty fractal]

yeah

[mighty fractal]

can you send the link of one of yours roblox games?

[reef linden]

what

[mighty fractal]

you said in your profile that you are a roblox developer and scripet

[reef linden]

I currently work on a big game

which is inspired of jailbreak

[mighty fractal]

ok

im not too good but i can help you build

[reef linden]

nah im fine

i alerady have my dev team

[mighty fractal]

oh wow

how is going?

[reef linden]

had 30k robux to pay them

[reef linden]

we're restarting

[mighty fractal]

oh

how many are in this group

yeah we are going off topic

[reef linden]

cuz I wasn't happy with the map

[mighty fractal]

oh

[strong dagger]

No 🤣

[reef linden]

pretty low end pc

[mighty fractal]

unistall and reinstall salad

it may work

[strong dagger]

Yes I do aware of that

[reef linden]

maybe restart wifi router

[strong dagger]

alrighty

[mighty fractal]

is this low end?

[gleaming wraith]

wtf

[chilly peak]

LMAO

[reef linden]

i'd call it lower mid range

[chilly peak]

what kinda error message 💀

[reef linden]

is this low end?

[gleaming wraith]

bro i've no clue

comes up multiple times

%appdata%\salad\logs

always happens after it finds those two ports

it appears that's how it checks for updates

so it just doesn't let me check for updates

nvm

[strong dagger]

It's back, but still no bandwidth sharing

unlucky ig

Fixed it!
All I have to do is disable Pi-hole

[chilly peak]

hihi @upbeat shuttle might want to add something like that on the pins

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm~

[upbeat shuttle]

done, kinda

[chilly peak]

thanks qt

[mighty fractal]

what is pi hole

[potent elm]

how u running windows 11 on a haswell processor?

[strong dagger]

Adblocker

[strong dagger]

Disable the hardware check

Heck, I did ran Windows 11 on Sandy Bridge CPU

[potent elm]

lol im running windows 11 on haswell too

[strong dagger]

But because it’s a HDD, I have to revert back to Windows 7

[potent elm]

okk

[subtle condor]

[gleaming wraith]

i think isp is blocking

ping works on my device at home

compared to

[pearl cloak]

End. Will bandwidth sharing be in the uae

[chilly peak]

we don't know right now

[shrewd terrace]

e

[upbeat shuttle]

Thinking of making a Bandwidth Sharing FAQ pinned message, any suggestions let me know

[stiff wedge]

the problem is people dont read pinned messages

[upbeat shuttle]

I tell people to read the pinned messages

If they don't then uhhh

[frigid reef]

[subtle condor]

Add the thing where if your GPU doesn't support mining, then sgs-client might not start

I don't really know how to explain it but it happens to quite a lot of people

[gleaming wraith]

untrue bc i don't have a compatible gpu and it worked

u just need to toggle cpu mining

[subtle condor]

it happens to some people

like it's more likely to start if you have a compatible GPU, one of the mods said it once

[gleaming wraith]

salad needs to invent a way to see if ur actually eligible for bandwidth sharing

and have more useful logs

[subtle condor]

The logs are useful though

[gleaming wraith]

not really

i still can't diagnose the actual root cause of sgs-client not downloading at me office pcs

like is it that the download of sgs-client is being blocked

[subtle condor]

probably

[gleaming wraith]

logs don't tell u that

maybe if sgs-client came preinstalled with salad

it would solve a lot of problems

manually downloading it doesn't seem to make salad detect it

logs don't tell u the download source either

or the response code for the GET request for it

[peak terrace]

it is treated in the same way as mining programs are, saladbowl looks at your hardware and only downloads the right programs that would work best on your computer

if it came pre-installed with salad it would be a useless waste of storage space for those who don't use it and it also means the salad client can automatically download new versions of sgs-client.exe when they come out

[upbeat shuttle]

Are the office PCs.. at an office?

[upbeat shuttle]

^^ It is downloaded when it is needed. If it already exists, it does not need to be re-downloaded

[peak terrace]

imagine if salad came pre-installed with every version of t-rex, miniz and xmrig built into it

would be wasteful

so it only downloads when needed

[gleaming wraith]

at least sgs-client and container by default

cos they're actually made by salad

[gleaming wraith]

sure

[upbeat shuttle]

You missed the point again - it'll download them when necessary

[gleaming wraith]

now the problem here is it wont download for whatever reason

[upbeat shuttle]

Otherwise it'll just inflate Salad's base installer file size for no good reason

[tulip jolt]

why doesnt salad allow server ips 😔

[upbeat shuttle]

Assumedly because that isn't what Salad's customers want

[peak terrace]

because ISP QoS is a bitch

presumably

the whole selling point of bandwidth sharing to companies is that it uses residential IPs

[peak terrace]

asking on behalf of a friend

the fuck happened here

[mighty fractal]

container exploded

[tropic vortex]

are you not running containers

[peak terrace]

i am not

neither is my friend

sgs-client.exe was running but its just stopped

he is gpu mining as well which is why it didn't drop to 0

[pulsar arrow]

happened to me aswell

bandwidth is never stable

went from 4.2 a day to 2.88

hoping it recovers but yeah

it's usually 0.06 every 15 mins

I wanted it to get to 100 a month for the first time but rip

it got to 99.8 but then dipped

[frigid reef]

has anyone elses bandwidth just stopped

[round zenith]

is it legit to share Bandwidth using Azure vm device?

[frigid reef]

considering thats not a home ip, it wont work

[round zenith]

It appears that its not possible to use it until traveling to the US 😅

[subtle condor]

yeah

Maybe salad restarted their servers

[subtle condor]

I can't get my sgs-client to start again 😭

[gleaming wraith]

ha

also i finally figured it out

on one site my office isp is detected as business

what an F

honeygain works tho

[stiff wedge]

Laptop's one stopped

PC's is still running

and can't get my laptop to run sgs again

[peak terrace]

salad doing a funny

sgs-client.exe not starting

but ndm upload is 12mbps

my laptop sgs-client.exe is still running oddly enough

sgs-client.exe stopped at 14:37 GMT

[frigid reef]

14:41 for me

[peak terrace]

+- 15 seconds uncertainty because sgs-client.exe produces logs every 30 secs

this leads me to believe that a server-side thing has indeed happened

[frigid reef]

uhhh bandwidth logs are every 30 seconds

[peak terrace]

i am smort

[thin hare]

I've sent an request from support to salad with my logs and everything. Its been 2 weeks since I haven't received any feedback from them soooo my bandwidth is still not working. I've checked the pins and I fill EVERY requirements. Can someone check my logs and tell me what's wrong ..? Logs are from today and yesterday

[peak terrace]

no workload

[upbeat shuttle]

uhhh

yeah uhhhh

if BidirThroughput is anything but 0, then you're getting jobs

[peak terrace]

bidirectional throughput

[thin hare]

what about me ?

[pulsar arrow]

I had been getting jobs but I wasn't getting paid

task manager showed 80mbps throughput for sgs client but earnings were going down significantly

so I restarted it

it's going up now but dunno if it'll return to the previous levels

[tight atlas]

I want it to be at least reliable so I don't have to check task manager to know it's actually running

It still isn't

Been what like a month now

[upbeat shuttle]

it's still not working for you?!

check the troubleshooting pinned guide thingy, it's probably been updated since you last checked it

[tight atlas]

Its not working for many people considering how active this thread still is

[upbeat shuttle]

well most of those people are in the US

which is known to be very difficult to get into

[tight atlas]

Problem for me has always been trying to get it running which does work eventually if I turn GPU on and off

But man if I wanna use autostart that ain't gonna work

[shrewd terrace]

What is the latest BW sharing folder under workloads. It was running on my main rig just now but under Bandwidth-SGS-US-3-0.1.8?

Never mind, It just popped back in there after I moved it.

It's not downloading on any of my machines except my main. Does anyone know why or have a fix?

Is it limited to one machine per household now?

[upbeat shuttle]

I'm facing the same issue, bandwidth sharing died on all but one of my devices

[shrewd terrace]

I have one other machine that is downloading it, but not running it. I think it may be limited...

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm

Anyone else here running more than one device on Bandwidth Sharing? Specifically on the same network

[shrewd terrace]

I think the two that are downloading I started with 1.0.8 and then upgraded.

Ok, I have another that it is actually working, but my main it looks like it may be queued up to start but not doing anything.

[subtle condor]

yea, it rarely works

[shrewd terrace]

So, not only is it looking like it's limited but a bug where it's only downloading to ones that were installed and then upgraded...

Wondering if it will work if I rip everything out and then start with beta 1... vs beta 2, maybe a bug that it isn't doing what it needs to on install to make it work...?

Most of the machines I am running, I started with beta 2

[gleaming shell]

imagine

bandwidth sharing has been dead for me for over am onth

mont

MONTH

I WILL RIP OUT MY CHROMEBOOK KEYBOARD

[tulip jolt]

maybe they made it so only one device can share bandwidth on one network

[tulip jolt]

internet issue 🥱

[gleaming shell]

im in the us

[tulip jolt]

nice

[shrewd terrace]

Yeah, I think they are limiting to one per household. It's only working on one machine and it was in queue on my main, but not anymore. I started over with another machine on 1.0.8 and then ran and updated to beta 1 and then beta2 and it's not running on it.

[peak terrace]

lmao

[upbeat shuttle]

yikes

just changed one of my laptops from bandwidth to containers since i give up on running bandwidth on more than one device now

[peak terrace]

how comes

[tulip jolt]

read

[upbeat shuttle]

updated the troubleshooting guide, just an addition to the end regarding this one device per IP thing

[peak terrace]

this does not apply to me

i have bandwidth sharing working on my server and my laptop just fine

and also my pc but that's since stopped

[pulsar arrow]

i cant find sgs client folder in workloads anymore

have reinstalled salad and it still doesnt show up

[upbeat shuttle]

checked out the pinned troubleshooting guide yet?

[pulsar arrow]

ive gone through it but it doesnt show anything about a missing sgs client folder

[peak terrace]

yes

its missing because salad bowl hasn't downloaded it yet

it has determined that your computer for some reason or another is not currently able to use bandwidth sharing

this can be because of incompatable hardware or upload speeds below the minimum required

[stiff wedge]

Same here is it still happening for you and others?

Oh crap sry didn’t read the update thinggy lmao

[pulsar arrow]

well, it's worked for the past month with absolutely no problems and even shows enable bandwidth sharing option in the performance tab so idk

it's just the files that are missing