Hosting a RIPE Atlas probe on your network

Have you heard about Ripe Atlas project ?
RIPE Atlas
RIPE NCC is running an excellent project called RIPE Atlas from few years. This is one of the largest distributed network measurement projects where thousands of users host small devices called RIPE Atlas Probes on their networks, home connections, data centers etc. These probes do measurement under both public and private category and make that data available publicly for use by network engineers and helps in optimising routing.

These can help other users to run ping, trace route etc from other networks to detect latency, routing issues.

I have been hosting few of these and wanted to check with other users in India if they can host some devices.
It does not have any major requirements and just need USB power, uses 4-5kbps internet for tests and be available online 24/7.

I have 2 devices which I can share at this time.

To setup new device will need your email(invite and account for accessing online tools) and ISP details(ASN) to set it up.

Some more explaining how Ripe Atlas works and can help Network users/teams
RIPE Atlas - Wikipedia
RIPE ATLAS and Benefits of Hosting it in your Indian ISP Network | Mumbai IX Blogs
RIPE Atlas Probe Stats
RIPE Atlas Measurements
 
The new UI is inline with '10 years of RIPE Atlas' There is an Open House on the 18th. One can register for the event here

Also, there is the RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon scheduled on the 25th November.
 
Probe shows offline if I do not setup DMZ on router. For 4 hrs it was showing offline, but it was connected to the internet.

My isp uses cg nat.
 
How much avg uptime everyone is getting ?

Time Connected Percent
Last Week 6d 23h 14m 99.55%
Last Month 29d 10h 21m 98.11%

I restart my router everyday so that is a fixed downtime and usually on last day of month my internet goes down for whole night as my lco has weird manual recharge system.
 
Excitel Probe:

Time Connected Percent
Last Week 6d 23h 48m 99.88%
Last Month 29d 19h 4m 99.32%

TriplePlay Probe:

Time Connected Percent
Last Week 6d 23h 34m 99.75%
Last Month 29d 11h 14m 98.23%
 
Excitel Probe:

Time
Connected
Percent
Last Week7d 0h 0m100.00%
Last Month29d 21h 51m99.70%
 


new design of ripe atlas website is a mess

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Can anyone lend me some of your RIPE Atlas credits please. I hosted my software probe today only but i need to do some measurements as soon as possible if anyone could come forward i will be thankful for you.
 
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I got my probe back in December 😎 I had applied for it in 2020 but iirc, they weren't shipping in 2021
 

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