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How many channels, good peers?

If you have 3 small channels to shitty raspberry pi Tor nodes it will be unreliable. But the problem in this case is the user, not Lighting. If you want reliable, fast and self custodial Lightning try Phoenix.
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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

Doesn't Phoenix use their own LN node implementation?

But, good point. One channel, one peer. My internet is quite stable (98% reachable - the missing points are during the time my ISP changes my IP and my modem goes haywire for a moment, but then everything is fine again).

Guess I am going channel hunting!

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Felix 2y ago

Yes phoenix runs on their (Acinq's) implementation called Eclair. This is a very reliable and easy to use setup. But if you want to self host some good channels to highly connected peers (like the Acinq node) really help with reliability. Also Tor really makes things unreliable, which is a Tor problem, not a Lightning problem as you could run everything on clearnet too.