# Daedalus: set up topology.yaml as static file outside of Nix?

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-set-up-topology-yaml-as-static-file-outside-of-nix/80939>\
**Category:** Community Technical Support\
**Created:** [22 October 2021 09:39 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-set-up-topology-yaml-as-static-file-outside-of-nix/80939 "2021-10-22T09:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![COSDpool](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/cosdpool/32/21482_2.png) [@COSDpool](https://forum.cardano.org/u/COSDpool)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2021 09:39 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-set-up-topology-yaml-as-static-file-outside-of-nix/80939/1 "2021-10-22T09:39:01Z")

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Most of our user group, generally with poor Internet connections (4G in the “third world”), have had problems with the default relay set provided by Daedalus (currently only `relays-new.cardano-mainnet.iohk.io`). I’m looking for a best practice way to set up `topology.yaml` and maybe `config.yaml` as static individual files rather than the latest versions in the Nix packages:

`$ ps -ef | grep cardano-node`

> rphair 2104 2042 85 14:16 tty2 00:08:35 cardano-node run --socket-path cardano-node.socket --shutdown-ipc 3 --topology **/nix/store/hixr74kkg2m376qzkd9hhs7nhsqkyv4x-node-cfg-files/topology.yaml** --database-path chain --port 39515 --config **/nix/store/hixr74kkg2m376qzkd9hhs7nhsqkyv4x-node-cfg-files/config.yaml**

We are all on Linux, with most at an amateur level: it would be too much to ask for them to check for an updated `topology.yaml` pathname in `~/.daedalus/nix/store/*` after every Daedalus upgrade. If we can move the topology into a static file that’s preserved between upgrades, we can keep their configurations using relays of known good local connectivity. 🕶

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**Author:** ![Zendesigner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/439d5e/32.png) [@Zendesigner](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Zendesigner)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2021 11:20 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-set-up-topology-yaml-as-static-file-outside-of-nix/80939/2 "2021-11-19T11:20:33Z")

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any answer yet ?

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**Author:** ![COSDpool](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/cosdpool/32/21482_2.png) [@COSDpool](https://forum.cardano.org/u/COSDpool)\
**Post date:** [26 November 2021 03:26 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-set-up-topology-yaml-as-static-file-outside-of-nix/80939/3 "2021-11-26T03:26:14Z")

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No answer. There are other reasons to modify these parameters as well: including increasing the `-N2` default option for Daedalus’s `cardano-node` to `-N4` or more on capable processors.