Although your node may be online and ready to handle traffic, it doesn’t mean it will actually get any traffic routed to it. The reasons for zero bandwidth are usually two:
- there are many nodes in your region and your node is less performant / slower / longer ping than other available nodes;
- there are no users in your region asking for traffic;
However, until a connection is made, you don’t actually know if your node is fully working. So, make a connection through it and verify it is working by using the Diode CLI to run a command via your node. For example: diode -diodeaddrs=<ip>:<port> -debug time (for example: diode -diodeaddrs=170.187.238.94:41046 -debug time)! More info at How do I know if my new Lite Node is working? - #6 by JamesT
If you want to visually see a connection to your node, you can publish some empty content via your node: diode -diodeaddrs=<ip>:<port> -debug publish -public 80:80. That will show your Web Gateway address - open the link in your browser for the fun of it - after a minute or two, your node dashboard should show 2 connections.
Sometimes, after forcing connections through your node like this, new network requests will start to be routed through your node since it is building up its reputation.