Hi Roger - Thanks for reaching out. I do plan to do an upgrade, probably with a new Raspberry Pi 4, and likely in November.  This would be part of a home network upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 environment as soon as I can get a suitable router. [The network companies like Netgear have already started releasing these new routers, but I am waiting for a particular one from Netgear not yet out].

My wife & I will be traveling in October, but I hope to take on this project in late October and/or early November.  In the meantime, if you need to remove my current Tor router, please feel free and I will register the new one when I have it ready (probably with a new name).

I will save your email and refer to it when I do the upgrade.

Does this make sense?  Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for all the good work you guys do...

Ric Steinberger
Incline Village, NV

Roger Dingledine

September 2, 2019 at 1:45 AM

Hi Ric,

You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/DC7614250C29ED6389BB1384A381CE60A3407B1E

First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will
soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please
consider upgrading!

Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the
bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :)

You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#PlatformspecificInstructions

Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if
you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will
be maintained until Feb 2022:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases#Current
and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too.

Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier.

And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which
has public archives), to help us stay synced:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam

Thanks!
--Roger