Bandwidth Sharing FAQs + Troubleshooting

[low helm]

It's not even running

The process isn't even there

[still tendon]

sort by network and/or name and look for it

if not then check logs for speed test

[low helm]

I've been using Process Hacker for it

It has a process search

[still tendon]

oh

[upbeat shuttle]

have you first read through the pinned messages here?

[still tendon]

check logs

[low helm]

yeah, i did

[still tendon]

see if under 10mbs upload and download

can you use the 1.1.1.1 dns and still use bandwidth sharing?

[civic fern]

can anyone with working bandwidth sharing share their log? just wanna see what i should expect

[upbeat shuttle]

I'm pretty sure that it uses its own DNS, regardless of whatever DNS you use

[low helm]

what the

[civic fern]

exactly

[low helm]

Yeah salad is fucked up

[civic fern]

thingy is broken lol

the benchmark, at least

[low helm]

Yeah, especially when i have

fucking

700 mbps

with speedtest

[civic fern]

you're not the only one

[low helm]

on upload speed

fucking hell

[still tendon]

my upload speed test on salad ended up with 1mbps

[low helm]

Does restarting salad entirely by closing all processes will make the test restart if i start salad again

[civic fern]

yeah, just kill salad.bowl.service

in task manager

[low helm]

Alr

[still tendon]

why is my upload speed so slow 😭

like this isnt their speedtest

any speedtest says it's 1mbps and it gets lower

[oblique linden]

When bandwidth sharing come in india?

[low helm]

That might be the reason of why i got so low earnings yesterday

With bandwidth sharing vompared to 2 days ago

[upbeat shuttle]

refer to the pinned FAQs

^^

[sinful lark]

Is the Max you can earn from bandwidth sharing in Australia only q dollar

[upbeat shuttle]

well Salad said up to $1, but they also said up to $1 in the UK too, yet many people in the UK are earning like $3+

[still tendon]

i earned $1.20 in around 5 hours

so i dont think there's a limit to how much you earn

[low helm]

Even after closing Salad.bowl.service process it just does not start sgs-client

Guess i'll just restart my pc

Now it seems fine

and yet,

no sgs-client

[sinful lark]

How

[low helm]

oh !

[jovial fiber]

apparently you need to wait that a job is selcted for you to download sgs-client

;-;

[low helm]

By running librespeed client manually

it opened sgs-client

[jovial fiber]

in which country you are ?

[low helm]

France

[jovial fiber]

bruh

WHY IT DOESN4T WORK FOR ME

;-;

[low helm]

Try opening Librespeed-cli manually

C:\ProgramData\Salad\workloads\ndm

[jovial fiber]

yeah yeah i know where

[upbeat shuttle]

I.. don't think that'll do anything

[low helm]

It actually made sgs-client running

can see it thanks to process hacker

[jovial fiber]

i don't even have sgs client downloaded ;-;

[low helm]

125Bytes/s from time to time though

Idk if Process Hacker is accurate for Network usage but if that's accurate, kinda is trash

[jovial fiber]

it's because you don't have any job

waiting is the only solution

[low helm]

Those spikes are just from the queue iiuc

[upbeat shuttle]

yeah they're probably just pings to make sure that it's still alive

[low helm]

Oh wait

I actually do earn something

from that

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm~

I might've been right before then

[low helm]

That's weird though

[upbeat shuttle]

France and Italy being on a static pay temporarily

[low helm]

Why it uses just

200+B/s

And just from time to time

[upbeat shuttle]

lemme know if you earn roughly the same amount every 15m over the next hour or so

[low helm]

smol spike

[low helm]

yeah, will do

[jovial fiber]

;-;

gonna start crying

[low helm]

in which country are ya ?

[jovial fiber]

france

[low helm]

And it does not work?

Uhm

[jovial fiber]

nopr

[low helm]

Have you perhaps

Gave permissions

Through Firewall

[jovial fiber]

idk

but i haven't sgs-client executable so i can't whitelist it ?

[upbeat shuttle]

hm

you could try whitelisting Salad itself maybe

though tbh I'm not sure how helpful that tip really is

[jovial fiber]

hmm ok

i will try everything 😮

[upbeat shuttle]

good luck

[jovial fiber]

thanks ,-,

[upbeat shuttle]

I give you all of my knowledge (the pinned messages )

[jovial fiber]

i read it 5 times already ;-;

now i need to find how to whitelist in mcafee, shitty antivirus

ok done

[civic fern]

Most likely

I get 1$ a day, so it can't be cpu container only

[jovial fiber]

bruh

i'm gonna reinstall and see

[low helm]

Mcafee can be uninstalled

It is even worse than windows defender itself

way worse

[jovial fiber]

thqt's not worse

[low helm]

Clearly is

It never detected Trojans or such when i downloaded them

compared to windows defender

Which, Kacpersky does detect it aswell

[jovial fiber]

on tests he does well like others

[jovial fiber]

ok everything is clean and i have sufficient speed

[low helm]

it seems to be quite stable even though is low earnings

And the network usage seem to be the same most of the time

[jovial fiber]

"low"

[low helm]

I was making 2/3 cents per 15 mins

two days ago

[jovial fiber]

;-;

[low helm]

Like

[jovial fiber]

i never made 1 cent

[low helm]

look at the diff

[jovial fiber]

;-;
do you know how much time it takes to start downloading sgs after the speedtest ?

[low helm]

nope

[unique cedar]

probably because your benchmark reached 10+ mbps download and upload

i tried that but upload is still very low

[low helm]

It did a lot before that

Yet it wasn't running anyways

[unique cedar]

is it opened rn?

sgs

[low helm]

Yes

But i had to open the test manually

[unique cedar]

could you check in your logs if speed rates are over 10 mbps

[low helm]

It is

No need to check logs

Cuz the cmd appears when you open it manually

[upbeat shuttle]

ah yep so France (and probably Italy) are on 'static' earnings until there's actual customers

[low helm]

e

[low helm]

oh ic

So once there are actual customers

will get more earning

right?

[upbeat shuttle]

potentially

[low helm]

I dont like that word

xD

[upbeat shuttle]

[jovial fiber]

you opened it when salad was running ?

[low helm]

Yes

and also that was running

[jovial fiber]

ok thanks i will try

bruh

0.2mbps up

;-;

[unique cedar]

3.50 right here

aaa

ig we gotta wait for a fix or something

[jovial fiber]

if the speedtest says that could it be the reason why sgs doesn't come ?

[hollow vortex]

no

[jovial fiber]

wdym ?

[hollow vortex]

no...

[jovial fiber]

oh ok sorry

;-;

JUST WORK

[frigid reef]

@jovial fiber heads up be careful as you just posted a picture with your ip in it

[jovial fiber]

and ?

[frigid reef]

Well sharing your ip isn’t the best thing to do

[jovial fiber]

every website know your ip

[frigid reef]

yes but random users don’t know it, and it’s best not to share it with random users of discord that could use it for bad

[jovial fiber]

ok ok

[jovial fiber]

i'm gonna die

[pulsar arrow]

they can see your location

[jovial fiber]

now i fixed my connection so i always get the minimum speed but salad is ignoring me

[jovial fiber]

not really

[pulsar arrow]

approximate location

[jovial fiber]

yeah

[pulsar arrow]

mines super accurate

like 3 streets away accurate

[naive lava]

whaddahell is sgs client?

[pulsar arrow]

salad gateway service

[naive lava]

um, what does it do?

[jovial fiber]

sometimes it show me at Paris even if i'm at 600km of it bruh ;-;

[pulsar arrow]

it's where your bandwidth gets shares through

or something like that

[naive lava]

huh

[pulsar arrow]

vpnn

[naive lava]

that's how bandwidth is shared through others?

[pulsar arrow]

kind of, I'm just assuming here

[naive lava]

eh ok

[jovial fiber]

no you're wrong
salad great stupidity

[pulsar arrow]

that's what I see in my processes list

[naive lava]

i c

[pulsar arrow]

salad good

[jovial fiber]

rgizuerzuyfgaueire

i've reinstalled 1874156 times do firewall stuff, let it run several hours and ...... nothing i've never seen sgs-client, i have not even downloaded it

[pulsar arrow]

[naive lava]

hehaw i can afford bandwidth but salad yet didn't release it in India welp

[pulsar arrow]

real

[naive lava]

real real

[jovial fiber]

ahah no in fact the speedtest are done with librespeed

so test with that
https://librespeed.org/

[naive lava]

what da hail

stoopid

lemme check anyways

[jovial fiber]

yes and it's f*ck shitty

[pulsar arrow]

they don't have a server in India yet

[jovial fiber]

bruh

[naive lava]

W

I'm in Germany o:

[jovial fiber]

me too this server suck

[naive lava]

lmfao

[jovial fiber]

like other one

[naive lava]

ok

[pulsar arrow]

I've got one in London super close

so ez

[jovial fiber]

their are some that sucks little less

[jovial fiber]

how many you got ?

[naive lava]

Wait Africa is much closer than Germany right

fk yes

so should i choose tht

or Germany

[pulsar arrow]

my max speeds basically.. 132 down 25 up

[naive lava]

why upload so low

[pulsar arrow]

the United Kingdom :)

I might get an upgrade next year

[jovial fiber]

with librespeed ? wow

[pulsar arrow]

ye London servers are high end

but I do also have a Nottingham server that it connects to

which is slow

[naive lava]

woah

[jovial fiber]

bruh no i just run a test on london server i have 20/20mbps

;-;

[jovial fiber]

good luck ;-;

[pulsar arrow]

packet loss moment

they might get new servers online near y'all

[naive lava]

da f is this why are they using this

why...

[pulsar arrow]

what's server is this

Africa?

[naive lava]

Germany

as scanned automatically by the website

[pulsar arrow]

ye still ur super far away your having terrible ping and packet loss

that's why it's so slow

[naive lava]

ehm

[silver cedar]

librespeed servers are shit*

[pulsar arrow]

real

[naive lava]

why can't they switch to better alternative like ookla or smthing

[pulsar arrow]

(my mobile data can do 1.5gbit)

[naive lava]

xd

[jovial fiber]

850km

[jovial fiber]

wtf

[pulsar arrow]

Nottingham sucks

[jovial fiber]

x)

i'm gonna reach salad support i think

[naive lava]

why?

[jovial fiber]

because i dosen't want to work

i've tried everything

[unique cedar]

my rates in the speedtest are high but when it comes to salad bandwidth sharing they're low

[low helm]

wol

[upbeat shuttle]

had a nice day of almost all maxed out earnings, aaand then my internet died like an hour ago

[jovial fiber]

can i say ||cheh|| ? (sorry i'm too angry]

[upbeat shuttle]

huh

[pseudo fog]

what is cheh

[brisk bison]

Is this ok? Just bandwidth on

[upbeat shuttle]

nothing looks wrong to me

[brisk bison]

Ok thank you

[jovial fiber]

;-;

why it works with everyone except me :-:

[pseudo fog]

Thats not even close to accurate

[uncut bluff]

and me

[unborn mason]

your in queue and i alr have my pc up for 9 days alr and still didnt get a job

[jovial fiber]

i don't have sgs client running

[unborn mason]

same here mate

you need to wait for a job to get sgs client downloaded

[jovial fiber]

is this a joke ;-;

[unborn mason]

it doesnt work btw

[jovial fiber]

;-;

[unborn mason]

peopel waited for weeks

just to get bw going

[jovial fiber]

there is a guy that got sgs client with only that

we thought that was the queue ping

so that we need sgs client to enter the queue

[unborn mason]

someone told me that they waited 2 weeks to get sgs client

[pseudo fog]

they

said on sos

theres actual customers

[pulsar arrow]

ey

time to change my nickname

[jovial fiber]

8TB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pulsar arrow]

yes

[jovial fiber]

me with my 200Go mobile plan : ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;------------------------;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[pulsar arrow]

here ulimited plans are like 17 pounds

[pulsar arrow]

your using... data?

[jovial fiber]

what do u mean ?

[pulsar arrow]

for salad

are you using a mobile hotspot

[jovial fiber]

i try yes

[pulsar arrow]

i dont think that'd work

latency and quality of bandwidth matters a lot

[jovial fiber]

i have seen some people doing that

[pulsar arrow]

who

[jovial fiber]

idk

[pulsar arrow]

exactly lol

[jovial fiber]

some message in the discord

[pulsar arrow]

prob lying

mobile data has way too high of latency and packet loss

[jovial fiber]

i have under 100ms latency

[pulsar arrow]

i get 10ms on broadband

[shrewd terrace]

Hey guys why do I still don’t get bandwidth sharing

[jovial fiber]

broadband ?

[pulsar arrow]

yes?

broadband

[jovial fiber]

don't look at the upload

when i will go back to my parents house i will have fiber so maybe it'll work

but i don't want to wait ;-;

[subtle condor]

has anybody else's bandwidth sharing just died....

[pulsar arrow]

uh nope not yet

[subtle condor]

o

[pulsar arrow]

just wait lol

had ur issue a couple days ago

fixed itself

[subtle condor]

seems there's just less jobs all of a sudden

[pulsar arrow]

its prolly you completing a job

and then looking for another one now

[subtle condor]

I normally get jobs 24/7

[pulsar arrow]

yeah same but idk

[pulsar arrow]

aa

[upbeat shuttle]

hhahahahaha

[kindred helm]

its flipping you off :(

[uncut bluff]

L

[jovial fiber]

lmao

i have no packet loss so far

[subtle condor]

my bandwidth sharing is back (I think)

[unique cedar]

where are you from?

[gleaming shell]

must be nic

e

sgs isnt downloaded yet AND i lost my 2nd container again

very fun

[pulsar arrow]

uk

[jovial fiber]

no packet loss

[civic fern]

@pulsar arrow would you share some lines of your bandwidth logs? Just to see what should i expect from it

[jovial fiber]

you're still without jobs ?

[civic fern]

Eeeeexactly

But to be fair, it was the weekend

So i didn't expect anything

[jovial fiber]

not false

[civic fern]

I hope that stuff is fixed from next week tho

[jovial fiber]

i hope this is fixed in the next minutes

[civic fern]

[jovial fiber]

i mean it should work from the beginning, it's simple to code properly

[civic fern]

my log file says otherwise

[unique cedar]

we still in the same boat?

[civic fern]

seems like so

[still tendon]

my container once just randomly cut it's earnings by 3 times when I was at school

and bandwidth sharing i swear it's not paying me for running

[zinc heart]

Container sometimes do that

For bw its prob not getting any jobs (if its running)

[unborn mason]

9 days in one shut down

[sinful lark]

can i run salad bandwith shawring on 2 pcs at the same time under 1 account if they are under different networks

[upbeat shuttle]

yep

[sinful lark]

will it tak elonger to get jobs on the other pc

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm

I'm not sure, as I don't think (m)any people have done that before

[sinful lark]

so is it even possible then

[kindred helm]

I cant use bandwidth sharing, but would mobile data work

[upbeat shuttle]

mobile data has such bad latency and packet loss that I doubt it

I personally wouldn't do it

[upbeat shuttle]

the only way to know is to try it and see

[kindred helm]

Ah makes sense, but in theory it would work, right

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm

[safe loom]

assuming you have 5g

yes

and assuming its infastructure is setup porperly

with towers near you

[jovial fiber]

i'm probably missing something but i sent 2000 packets and got 0 loss

[civic fern]

new day

and i hope we get some fixes in this week :D

also hoping for an answer from salad's support

[naive lava]

bruh thts fked up

[pulsar arrow]

my roommate is uploadin shit and it's affecting my earnings

faster uploads pls VM

[silver cedar]

hold on does mobile data even work

doesn't it only work if it's a residential connection

[upbeat shuttle]

hmm

that's a good point

[civic fern]

it could work theoretically

it's not a vpn...

as long as it passes the bandwidth test, it should be usable right?

[kindred helm]

Yeah thats why i asked

[unique cedar]

is it still broken?

bw sharing

[upbeat shuttle]

that's a very vague question..

could you elaborate a bit more?

[unique cedar]

upload speed in Italy is apparently very low

[upbeat shuttle]

your upload speed?

[unique cedar]

yea

in the speedtest website it's around 20

when coming to salad it drops to 3

[zealous hull]

does anyone know when they are gonna release bandwith for new countries?

[upbeat shuttle]

Refer to the pinned FAQs

[upbeat shuttle]

have you tried the steps regarding 'Salad accidentally choosing a bad speed test server' in the pinned Troubleshooting guide?

[unique cedar]

well the closest server is Rome, it picks it automatically so i don't think there's a problem related to that

[upbeat shuttle]

The location may be fine, but the server could still be experiencing some issues. Ideally Salad would switch servers once it notices this, but it isn't that smart yet..

[unique cedar]

so instead of choosing Rome I'd try another one?

[upbeat shuttle]

You can't manually change it, but you can try making it run the test again, in hopes that it's fixed now, or that it'll choose a different server

[unique cedar]

by closing salad, killing salad bowl and restarting salad right?

[upbeat shuttle]

yep

I've just updated the troubleshooting guide to include that process heh

[unique cedar]

thanks, will try soon

[civic fern]

@upbeat shuttle i've been testing for days lol

Although, it worked on my laptop although i don't understand the reason for it

And apparently, i'm not the only one who has been having problems about the upload speed

[unique cedar]

tried at least 10 times, starts well then drops

[civic fern]

Same, that's exactly what happens

[silver cedar]

Can salad not use librespeed in the next update

speedtest-cli does exist but idk if it would be allowed to redistribute it like how salad does librespeed

[unique cedar]

you shouldn't show your ip in a public server lmao

[low helm]

did not notice it was there kekw

thank you anyways

For those who does not have sgs-client.exe running:

• Try to run librespeed-cli.exe located in C:\ProgramData\Salad\workloads\ndm
• If your download rate and upload rate exceeds 15 mbps, you shall be good, then go to C:\ProgramData\Salad\workloads\Bandwidth-SGS-FR-0.1.8 (name changes depending on your country, mine is French version) and open sgs-client.exe (it won't open but still click it)
  Afterwards open Salad's UI with Show Salad button, disable the workloads with the pause button
• Disable all your workloads then re-enable bandwidth sharing at first enable the others once sgs-client is running.
• Unpause the workloads and check Task manager, then Details, and try to find sgs-client it shall be there now.
  If the process now is opened, you now can enable other workloads such as GPU and it shall still work perfectly fine.

^That is what i do now, tested on multiple devices, and tested on different IPs and ISPs, yet does work all the time

[unique cedar]

its 10 mbps iirc

[low helm]

I tried with a network limiter and it does not work below 13

[unique cedar]

oh okok

[civic fern]

Sadly, same thing this happens. After a while, upload speeds just start going down until it reaches 3-5mbps

and thus, it fails the test

I don't understand why my laptop doesn't give any of these problems

there must be something that i'm missing

[civic fern]

for all people with problems about the bandwidth speedtest

https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest-cli/releases

all releases of librespeed-cli can be found here, if you would like to run it and test it, it would be good

especially because, with that test, it doesn't fail

[frigid reef]

||or just here https://librespeed.org/||

[civic fern]

||the fact is to have it in cli form, to prove a point||

[civic fern]

:D

so wait, is it recognised that salad's librespeed-cli might be broken in some way?

[frigid reef]

that or its just because they run it at start up when alot of other shit can be going on with the pc

[civic fern]

running it in different times bring no changes

[frigid reef]

it does for me

[civic fern]

anyway, i downloaded the cli from there and... everything seems good? but ofc, it is not salad's cli

so i don't think i can make that work for my machine. also, i... guess it's against TOS?

[pulsar arrow]

try replacing the file

put the one u downloaded into salads folder and then restarting ur computer n shi

I don't know if this will break salad but try at your own risk

[civic fern]

I think it will

Salad cli must have some implementation to do other stuff after the test has passed

And librespeed-cli shouldn't have that by default (idk tho)

[pulsar arrow]

or it's just reading from that cmd window

[civic fern]

the difference is noticeable

[civic fern]

let's just pray that they solve the problem asap

[low helm]

https://librespeed.org/results/?id=1r8e3pr

My upload is so trash on that test wtf

[civic fern]

Exactly

Salad needs to fix the test

[cobalt crystal]

that's decent upload

at least compared to my shit

[unique cedar]

is it working for you now?

[civic fern]

Nope

[unique cedar]

oh

[civic fern]

Still dies in the upload department

[civic fern]

Because it literally stops sending data before the test is over

And since you have almost 200mbps in upload, it's enough to compensate for the sudden loss in uploaded data (based on the mean)

If you take my connection as example (20mbps in upload), it is impossible to compensate during the test

[narrow tiger]

never have i encountered a mmwave

[safe loom]

mmwave

[narrow tiger]

mmwave

[pulsar arrow]

still stable earnings

there's a dead spider in my bulb diffuser

it's cooked

[jovial fiber]

on all speedtest that i ran, on librespeed website, they were wrong with any server

or they don't test speed like other speedtest website

[cobalt crystal]

if I deployed computers out on different networks all logged into the same salad account, it would do bw sharing on all of them, or just the one with the highest bw?

[unique cedar]

if you're using different IPs it'll work

[cobalt crystal]

sick

yea they would be at different houses

many miles apart

I have a few old laptops and Intel nucs that I would use

[pulsar arrow]

u gota share those sweet earnings data

would be insane if you got decent internet at multiple houses

[cobalt crystal]

yea

my area doesnt have fiber so i only get at most a peak of 40 mbps up

but i get close to 1gbps down when the areas demand is low

[upbeat shuttle]

something ain't adding up here chief

[cobalt crystal]

with my speeds?

[upbeat shuttle]

if it's capable of gigabit down, then it's capable of gigabit up

[cobalt crystal]

no its not

i have cable

cable has sucky upload speeds

[upbeat shuttle]

bróther

[cobalt crystal]

my friend down the road only has 15 up

[upbeat shuttle]

the datacentres and whatnot are uploading data to you

it's just the ISPs cheaping out on us :(

[silver cedar]

my isp does the same shit

1gbit down, 40 up

[civic fern]

same here: 100mbps down, 20 up

[civic fern]

yup...

[upbeat shuttle]

I'm gonna be getting new internet installed in just over a week, 450 down and up

[civic fern]

lucky

:c

the day we'll manage to have fiber at home, it will be a goob day

for now, i'm more than happy with fiber at cabinet

[silver cedar]

goob day

[civic fern]

goob day

[gleaming shell]

Same here
150-250mbps down and like ~23mbps up on a good day
Also librespeed sucks so upload is usually lower on the speedtests

[pulsar arrow]

(must be nice incoming)

[gleaming shell]

must be nic

[pulsar arrow]

haha

[gleaming shell]

Librespeed sucks ass

Also I need something that prevents me from restarting my laptop, bc I keep restarting it even tho I said I would keep.it on for 2 months

[civic fern]

it's not librespeed that sucks

it's the way salad uses it (sorry salad)

[sick helm]

@gleaming shell gives bruh when will my sgs client download a headpat, awwww.

[gleaming shell]

(Never with the amount I restart my laptop lol, my trust rating is in the core if the earth)

[jovial fiber]

it sucks

[shadow ivy]

does bandwidth still work if u have cpu and gpu on

[upbeat shuttle]

GPU, yes
CPU is a bit more complicated;
CPU mining will not work, but CPU containers should work.. the difficult bit about that is that Salad will start CPU mining before it even considers giving you a CPU container job.

[shadow ivy]

doesn’t matter because I can’t make money using salad for no reason at all

[hollow vortex]

fun fact - xmrig has only ran maybe at most 2x sense i been using salad/container with bandwidth all 3 running .

[unborn mason]

still no sgs client yet?

same here

[gleaming shell]

yeah still no sgs client here, probs not gonna have it for a pretty long time

pretty long meaning in months

maybe even years

maybe when the sun dies

[unborn mason]

mines is been running for 9 days and still no

[low helm]

@gleaming shell @unborn mason you guys shall try that

I've tried many many times and it worked 24/7

[gleaming shell]

I don't have sgs client downloaded tho
sad

[unborn mason]

sgs client sint donwloaded

[low helm]

Uh

[gleaming shell]

also woah you have 4080

[low helm]

That's another problem then

[unborn mason]

:/

[low helm]

Yeah, worked hard for getting hat one

[gleaming shell]

Yeah I don't think my bandwidth sharing is broken I think I'm not worthy enough for bandwidth jobs
Just gotta keep salad running for a few weeks

[unborn mason]

do you know how 2 fix it?

[low helm]

I mean for me it downloaded sgs instantly after running bandwidth sharing in performance tab

Like within 2 secs

[gleaming shell]

Are you in the us

[low helm]

Maybe if i provide you guys my sgs-client, but i will try that tmr

[low helm]

France

[gleaming shell]

Oh

[low helm]

(am at work rn)

[unborn mason]

it doesnt work i alr have a copy of sgs client

[gleaming shell]

I have a us version of sgs client

I could try that

[unborn mason]

i onyl have teh .exe but not the folder

[low helm]

Create them manually and try it

[unborn mason]

also i heard that you have to be in queue and get sgs downloaded then you can get jobs and @silver cedar waited 2 weeks

[low helm]

I written the file locations in my guide i replied to

Tf

[unborn mason]

no the file has a ip attached to it it wont work

[low helm]

How do you know that

[unborn mason]

trust rate

basically the salad had to trust this computer before running sgs client

[low helm]

Never had this issue

Like my sgs client got downloaded instantly

Thats why i do not get it

Like how are you guys having problems with it

Even then, after a day it should be enough to download...

That shouldn't take 2 weeks

[gleaming shell]

The US has it bad

[low helm]

Some french users have this issue aswell

But not as much as you guys it seems

[unborn mason]

bad luck i guess

[safe loom]

if theres no jobs for them to snatch why would salasd run the client?

[low helm]

When my sgs client was running i was not getting any earning for 1h+

So i am pretty sure it's not due to not having jobs

[safe loom]

i am :)

also doesnt help that librespeed is dogshit

and the upload stops halfway through

[gleaming shell]

it took me 3 restarts to get a good speedtest

[naive lava]

Imagine considering speed test from websites like librespeed

[low helm]

So you're telling me that i got super giga lucky because it got downloaded day one within a range of 5 mins after clicking bandwidth sharing ?

[safe loom]

yes

depends what country you're in

[low helm]

Yet many french are having issues downloading the sgs-client, i still am the only one who got it without much time and/or effort

[sinful lark]

My data so fast

[white knot]

4 3rd world countries yes

[sinful lark]

Its Australia

And 4g

[naive lava]

That's not how salad measures to network speed and decides if u deserve bandwidth or not

Librespeed is the speed test they use

Which is so shit

You're gonna get 5 instead of 500 MBps speed

Download speed*

[civic fern]

New day, still nothing from salad, still full of hope for this week

[flint bison]

Anyone know why I'm not making a money from bandwidth sharing? Im in us

[civic fern]

either lack of jobs, sgs-client doesn't exist in task manager, or idk what else

[flint bison]

I can say that sgs client dose not show up is there a way to fix it?

[civic fern]

check the bandwidth benchmark logs, you can find them by opening salad, pressing on your profile picture and pressing "Show logs"

the logs are found in a folder called "ndm"

[flint bison]

what am i looking for?

[civic fern]

you got the logs?

[flint bison]

yea

[civic fern]

you're looking for 2 lines of text, one stating the final download speed, and the other stating the final upload speed

final download speed can be found just before starting the upload test

and the final upload speed can be found at the end of the log

make sure that the log you're checking is the most recent one

[flint bison]

2023-02-28 03:12:15.294 -05:00 [INF] Upload rate: 5.10 Mbps

[civic fern]

yeah, that's exactly what's wrong

[flint bison]

why is my upload so low lmao

[civic fern]

because, for whatever reason, the system stops sending data before the test is over

thus, the upload speed goes down rapidly

resulting in failing the benchmark test

just to be sure, could you go to speedtest.net and check your internet connection though?

[flint bison]

in the other log its like 31 Mbps

2023-02-28 00:46:11.222 -05:00 [INF] Upload rate: 31.95 Mbps

[civic fern]

the benchmark thingy is a bit broken in my opinion

i'm still waiting for a response from salad support

[flint bison]

thats on speed test

[civic fern]

exactly what i mean

unless you have 1gbps both on download an upload, your net (more like, the benchmark itself) can't compensate for the sudden loss of upload

[flint bison]

well i have 500 up and down but its some shit call continuous where its not suppose to drop at all but apparently its not lmao

[civic fern]

nono, it's all a mean of the connectivity speed

if the benchmark can theoretically arrive at 500mbps in upload before dropping rapidly, there is a chance it might still pass the test

it's all about whether or not the mean of the upload speed drops below the threshold

which is around 10mbps

[flint bison]

idk i guess imma just uninstall it again like i did when earning dropped cuz of the crypto stuff

[civic fern]

shouldn't change anything, but sure, give it a try

maybe you have more luck than me

[flint bison]

i was just talking about not using it anymore cuz with the gpu and cpu i got i don't earn that much

[civic fern]

ooooh

whoops

thought you meant to try and reinstall again and then retry

i suggest to contact salad's support rather than doing nothing and expecting things to be magically fixed by themselves

[flint bison]

i mean this seems to be a common problem tho

[civic fern]

i also should have the possibility to use bandwidth, but just like your logs have shown... yeah, i do have the same problem

[civic fern]

exactly, the only problem now is when the fix will come out

since the true benchmarking software actually works correctly

but salad's one, which is based on THAT software, fails

[safe loom]

the ping is unbelievable

are you on telstra?

[flint bison]

i did that and 2023-02-28 03:48:27.280 -05:00 [INF] Upload rate: 27.31 Mbps

[civic fern]

huh

did the upload rate still drop fast though?

[jovial fiber]

the supprt replied to me with a generic answer

[civic fern]

i want this problem fixed, it's extremely stupid as it is

[flint bison]

No it increased a littel

[civic fern]

hmm...

i don't know what to think

[jovial fiber]

yeah but i think it will take time

[civic fern]

there is this benchmark, which is different from salad's one, which has literally no problems. Does the same job, but it keeps sending data till it ends

[flint bison]

yea that one is fine for me to

[civic fern]

but ofc, trying to change it in salad's folder won't accomplish anything

[flint bison]

i re did the test lmao 2023-02-28 03:57:14.676 -05:00 [INF] Upload rate: 4.02 Mbps

[jovial fiber]

it test it with the librespeed website and speed are wrong too

[civic fern]

lol

[civic fern]

wrong, but at least it keeps sending data

it's a start

[jovial fiber]

bruh

[civic fern]

what bruh? instead of 10% of the ppl passing the test they might become, idk, 50%? 60%?

way more consistent than salad's one

[jovial fiber]

yeah

[civic fern]

i have slow upload rate, and with that test, it still passes

20 mbps

[jovial fiber]

even if you have the speed on the salad one you need to wait a long time so no big deal for the moment i guess

[civic fern]

Wym?

[jovial fiber]

even if you get sgs client running you will probably have no job

[civic fern]

But at least i get 50 cents passively

:D

[sinful lark]

Nah bruh I am optus network i use amaysim

its only 4g as well

pretty insaNe

[upbeat shuttle]

heya just a heads up, downloading sgs-client manually should not make any difference..
unless if Salad is unable to access releases.salad.com

which I doubt

[civic fern]

hm?

well, sgs-client doesn't start if we first don't pass the benchmark anyway

right?

[upbeat shuttle]

yeah

[civic fern]

yeah, most of us have problems in the benchmark

couldn't even reach sgs-client :c

[safe loom]

when i find out the employees who compile the bandwidth team i’m gonna harass them until they fix it

[safe loom]

why is everyone telling me to sleep

[civic fern]

Idk

I saw the convo in lobby

Anyway, you're right

This should be a pretty stupid problem ngl

[safe loom]

i have an injury that causes me to be unable to do anything, i don’t have anything to do tomorrow, and it’s 10:51pm

i’m not going to sleep

[civic fern]

Fair

[sinful lark]

damn are you in melbourne?

[safe loom]

i’m in the same timezone but i’m not in melbourne

i shouldn’t say my city on the internet

[sinful lark]

geelong probaly ngl

[safe loom]

no

it’s not a big city

[sinful lark]

hmm

in vic?

[safe loom]

i live in vic australia

[upbeat shuttle]

you probably live right in the middle of australia

[safe loom]

that’s it

[safe loom]

yup i’m in alice springs

as we speak

riding a kangaroo

[sinful lark]

bro revealed him self

[sinful lark]

i was boutta say lourne

[safe loom]

where?

💀

[sinful lark]

lorne

its some beach city in vic

[safe loom]

i’m mid vic but i’m not saying the town or city name

[sinful lark]

you ever actually been to
?

melbourne

[sinful lark]

fair

[safe loom]

yes

RCH

i’ve been to rch tons of times

[sinful lark]

the hospital

?

[safe loom]

yea

[sinful lark]

damn

im pretty sure bendigo ngl

[safe loom]

haven’t done anything else in melbourne 💀

bendigo isn’t mid vic

[sinful lark]

wtf

google was capping

google is mad cpa

[safe loom]

melbourne may aswell be the country capital

or sydney

no one thinks of australia and says “canberra is the capital”

[sinful lark]

canberra

is irrelavant

[sinful lark]

when you think of australia you think of melbourne of sydneyt

its oone of those fr

[safe loom]

real

if it’s by significance it’s sydney

if it’s by population it’s melbourne

[chilly peak]

yes

[safe loom]

2 streets and highways

[rain spade]

how much do you earn per hour

i have used salad with gpu for 34 hours now and only got 0.08 dollars, i have a gtx 1650

[cobalt crystal]

my bandwidth died

[pulsar arrow]

rip

[pulsar arrow]

GPU mining is not profitable!

[rain spade]

cpu then?

[pseudo fog]

cpu even worse ☠️

[cobalt crystal]

only if you contaier

cpu is somewhat profitable

[pseudo fog]

yea

i get like

30 cents

[cobalt crystal]

i get 60

[pseudo fog]

if i pay electricity billz

[cobalt crystal]

and my cpu is at 30%

[safe loom]

they were factoring in electricity 👍

[cobalt crystal]

i have no much i would get if i factored in electric

no idea how much

[pulsar arrow]

I'd make a lot of profit if UK energy crisis had got better

[cobalt crystal]

does anybody know if salad would run on a 3rd gen intel cpu

[safe loom]

cpu containers will

[cobalt crystal]

ok good

[safe loom]

is that a xeon in your name?

it is

im so good

[cobalt crystal]

yea

[ashen flower]

when is bandwidth coming to canada smh

[pseudo fog]

pins

although ur def lazy

[gleaming shell]

i wonder if the trust rating thng for bandwidth sharing is per device or per acount

[civic fern]

Isn't the trust rating depending on the IP?

For bandwidth sharing?

[frigid reef]

What trust raiting though?

If it’s salads trust system then uhhh idk, if it’s the IPs trust rating then yeah it’s per ip

[cobalt crystal]

I was wondering this

[gleaming shell]

im planning on using bandwidth sharing on my other laptop and im keeping thaton 24/7, bc i restart my main laptop too much

why is my school chromebooks keyboard so ass

half the time the spacebar dosent work

and typing sucks too

pretty rare to not get a typo on a school chromebook

kinda wish bandwidth sharing worked on school wifi

would definitely get higher chancesof sgs client atleast downloading, better speeds for some reason

160mbps up

[cobalt crystal]

Yea lol

My school has fiber

So it's equal in both directions

100 up and down

I'm pretty sure it's limited to 100 up and down per device

[gleaming shell]

my school has different speeds depending at where you are but rn i have 231 down nd 162 up

[cobalt crystal]

Nice

[gleaming shell]

10ms ping

[cobalt crystal]

My school has like an access point in every room

4ms ping here

That's pretty low

[gleaming shell]

i would bring in my laptop to school for bandwidth sharing but sadly it only works on residential areas

[cobalt crystal]

I bring my laptop to school every day because the Chromebooks are so ass

The keyboards are nasty feeling and they are abysmally slow

[gleaming shell]

bruh im using my chromebook to type rn

it sucks

[civic fern]

Chromiumbook

[cobalt crystal]

Discord is blocked on the school wifi

[civic fern]

Copiumbook

[civic fern]

Evil

[gleaming shell]

i would bring in my laptop but its probs gonna be a distraction to other ppl so teachers would kill me and i wont want to risk any damages

[cobalt crystal]

I just use a vpn

[gleaming shell]

my school blocked vpns lol

[cobalt crystal]

How would it be a distraction

Oh rip

[gleaming shell]

but for some reason my school allows discor

d

chromebook keyboard moent

[cobalt crystal]

Goofy

[gleaming shell]

moment

[cobalt crystal]

I have some older Dell business laptop lol

It can play games almost fine which is enough for school

[shadow ivy]

sgs client isnt running?

[unique cedar]

means your download or upload speed is under 10 mbps

[shadow ivy]

it is over that

[unique cedar]

try running a test again

check logs

[shadow ivy]

what am i supposed to be checking in logs

[unique cedar]

if speed went down

[unique cedar]

no not there

[shadow ivy]

there isnt a log for today

[unique cedar]

wait

[shadow ivy]

there isnt a log because sgs isn't running

[unique cedar]

try this guide

well, just try to run that speed test

[shadow ivy]

900 mbps download and 50mbps upload

[safe loom]

id think it would be account

like this node has a lower trust than this node

[pulsar arrow]

hit 9 tb 🙂

[narrow tiger]

4g W is better

[gleaming shell]

must be nice

[civic fern]

Pog

Am still here with 0B

[gleaming shell]

same

0 binary digits per 28937428937498237^923849234 years

[peak terrace]

[silver cedar]

whoops someone stole all of your jobs

[peak terrace]

funny

[jovial fiber]

wow

[gleaming shell]

must be nice (still)

[unique cedar]

be jealous

[unborn mason]

Me doesn’t even have SGS client

[gleaming shell]

same

[pseudo fog]

me at 59tb of librespeed-cli

[gleaming shell]

me at 23842347pb of bad librespeed speed tests, -4234234234^89234298 eb of sgs client usage

[upbeat shuttle]

ayo

this post has no tags

[bleak shale]

Wait if I use bandwidth with gpu do I still get no earnings? cuz I still got 0

[stiff wedge]

love how the icon of this post is a cat

just amazing

[shadow ivy]

how u get that screnen

[subtle condor]

it's just the windows data usage setting

[shadow ivy]

and like $6 from it

is that good?

lately bandwidth hasn't been doing shit tho

[subtle condor]

that's for the last 30 days

[shadow ivy]

yea

i've only been using salad for 30 days

bandwidth hasn't been doing shit tho

[subtle condor]

in 30 days?

[shadow ivy]

like after i got $7.50

[shadow ivy]

yeah

am i doing something wrong?

[subtle condor]

wtf lmao

[shadow ivy]

why isn't bandwidth doing anything

[subtle condor]

what country are you in?

[shadow ivy]

uk

so i should be earning the most?

[subtle condor]

do you leave it running 24/7?

[shadow ivy]

does it matter? cuz i have it running for usually 6 hours

and nothing

[subtle condor]

it may take days for you to actually get bandwidth jobs, so it might not make anything in 6 hours :P

[shadow ivy]

sgs isn't even in task manager

[subtle condor]

also what other workloads do you have enabled

[shadow ivy]

cpu and gpu

[subtle condor]

are you using containers?

[shadow ivy]

yes

and i have only been making money from cpu

[subtle condor]

so you said you didn't have sgs-client running? you could read the pins and they'll help you

[shadow ivy]

well i have no clue how to find out if it is running

i scroll in my task manager

i don't think it's there

[subtle condor]

you're looking in background processes right?

[shadow ivy]

background and

app

[subtle condor]

read the trouble shooting in the pins then

[shadow ivy]

yea i spoke to a support member

they did nothing about it

[subtle condor]

what did they say?

[shadow ivy]

they didn't wanna help me with it apparently

they just didnt talk about it at all

and focused on problems i had already resolved myself

lol

[subtle condor]

I doubt that...

[silver cedar]

run salad 24/7 and you will be making much much more

[subtle condor]

maybe you didn't explain it well enough....

[subtle condor]

^

[shadow ivy]

but then again

salad is buggy af, so it randomly stops mining through the night?

another problem

[subtle condor]

that isn't happening for anyone else though

[shadow ivy]

i know

[silver cedar]

autofart issue

[subtle condor]

it's probably your windows power setting(s)

[shadow ivy]

autostart, i've tried literally everything

[shadow ivy]

right, so what do i change

balanced?

[subtle condor]

so you're saying Salad randomly stops in the night right?

[shadow ivy]

yeah.

[subtle condor]

no

[shadow ivy]

after 15 mins of mining

approximately

[subtle condor]

does the mining software just stop or does the whole salad process stop?

[shadow ivy]

mining softwarte

what do u mean by that

[subtle condor]

anti virus?

[shadow ivy]

no

i've literally disabled everything including trying to shut it down

rn im mining, and it's been 2 hours and i haven't made a single cent or anything

[silver cedar]

have you done this

[subtle condor]

also, not really sure why you're mining anyway since it's gonna make you legit nothing....

[silver cedar]

im guessing you have but idk

huh

[shadow ivy]

because i wanna see if it makes money at some point

i'm literally trying everything i can

[subtle condor]

don't mine, just containers and bandwidth

[shadow ivy]

that's what im doing

by mine

i mean

cpu and bandwidth

containers

[subtle condor]

is vmmem running?

[shadow ivy]

sgs-client isn't running, neither is vmmem

restart salad?

ok

go to services - stop + start?

[subtle condor]

seems like you're doing something wrong

[subtle condor]

no?

just restart the app

[shadow ivy]

i did

[subtle condor]

show me your salad

[shadow ivy]

what 1

[shadow ivy]

vmmem is running

but sgs

nope.

$5.59 last 24 hours

you're lucky]

[subtle condor]

no, I just run bandwidth 24/7

[shadow ivy]

yeah

so how do i get sgs client running?

[subtle condor]

check your ndm logs and see if the upload and download speeds meet the minimum requirements for bandwidth sharing

[shadow ivy]

they do

i've already checked that

900mbps

50mbps

[subtle condor]

is that what it says in the log, yes?

[shadow ivy]

lemme check again

right so what am i supposed to be looking at

in the log?

2023-02-28 22:01:26.615 +00:00 [INF]
2023-02-28 22:01:26.615 +00:00 [INF] Downloading... ⣯ 20.94 Mbps
2023-02-28 22:01:26.615 +00:00 [INF]
2023-02-28 22:01:26.615 +00:00 [INF] Downloading... ⣷ 21.15 Mbps
cuz all i see is pages of this

[subtle condor]

yes that's the log

[shadow ivy]

wait wait wait

hmmm

2023-02-28 22:01:37.538 +00:00 [INF] Upload rate: 6.72 Mbps

is that red flag?

[subtle condor]

okay, there's your problem :3

[shadow ivy]

omg

finally

right so why was bandwidth working fine for me before

but only just now

lemme pull up some old logs

[subtle condor]

because every time you boot up your pc it takes a speed test