Overview

The Bandwidth Sharing capability routes traffic through your node as a proxy. It has minimal requirements and is enabled in almost every configuration. If it shows as disabled, the cause is almost always a transient startup issue or missing internet access.

Common Fixes

Restart the node. Most often this is a transient startup issue and a restart re-runs the capability check.

Check your internet connection. The proxy needs a working outbound network connection. Confirm basic reachability:

curl -v https://bitping.com

If curl fails, fix the connectivity issue first (Troubleshooting Connectivity) and then restart the node.

Persistent Failures

If Bandwidth Sharing stays disabled after a restart on a healthy connection, contact [email protected] with the first few lines of bitpingd run showing capability checks — this is unusual.

See also: Troubleshooting Protocol Failures.