0 sats \ 4 replies \ @LIGHT21 OP 18 Feb 2023 \ parent \ on: Quick question to whoever has a full node running bitcoin
I m guessing the main thing to upgrade here would be the CPU because the SSD is a brand new one. I m running it on a i5 6500 but you are right the bigger the blockchain/blocksize gets the longer it would take you to validate all of it.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @richnost 18 Feb 2023
Thinking more about this. Have you tried connecting the machine directly to the home router? Wifi can be a bottleneck.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @LIGHT21 OP 19 Feb 2023
Well I use a extender but yes its connected through ethernet. Wifi would only get me about 100MB/s
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @richnost 18 Feb 2023
Your bandwidth and cache allocated in the bitcoin.conf might also be a factor.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LIGHT21 OP 19 Feb 2023
Hope I can get some more out of that, will look into it.
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