@realRioda By the way, I asked some questions on the Telegram channel, but has a lack of responses and I am still curious, so let me state it here.
When the mining process is on, even if you use the low-power profile, does the bandwidth limitation is removed? So the node still maximalizing the network bandwidth even it is on the lowpower mode.
Other things, the node will be penalized if it is inactive for around 1 hour. I wonder what if some user "cheated" by limiting the node bandwidth manually, like rate-limiting the network bandwidth on the router or with an application, how does the protocol/app will behave? does at some occurrences it will get penalized or somethings?
Difference between regular and low power mode is in maximum number of peers that your node can connect to. Number changed over time so I'm not sure what is current number, like for regular is 12 peers, and for low power, half so 6. Also I have experienced that from home router enviroment, there is always lower peer count (in regular mode), compared to when node is out in the open like on VPS with open ports.
Yes I heard some people who limited idena node bandwidth during mining period so their internet can be under less load and it worked. But it was long ago and there were many node version changes and protocol updates since then so I can't say anything for certain. Only way would be for you to test it out and see how will node act.
As I see from my vultr VPS stats it uses 350 kbps both for up and down. That is in regular mode.
I do not recomend limiting node bandwith on validation day