I'm having a hell of a time making lightning payments via #electrum desktop. Anything over a few hundred sats gets insuffient fee error. I've got two channels with very well connected nodes and plenty of outbound. Max fee is set to 2%, green network indicator, 100% gossip sync (trampoline routing disabled). What am i missing? #bitcoin #lightning #asknostr

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Turn off the max fee setting. I'll bet those really well connected nodes have really high routing fees.

Doesn't solve it unfortunately, and I know they don't bc I connect to those same nodes w zeus and get much lower fees. Usually 2-3 hops whereas electrum logs indicate its trying six hop routes

Are you using trampoline routing?

Trampoline routing w channel directly to acinq or electrum is the only way I've gotten it to work. Fees are much higher than I see on Zeus, and Zeus is not using trampoline iirc as my channels are mostly w non Zeus parties

Acinq routing fees are extremely high. As much as 10000ppm. Electrum has 100ppm and 1sat base. If you have a channel to acinq, close it.