Re: [tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 04:41:25PM +0000, j4c4l4 wrote:

I was about to ask the same question. I have been running an obfs4 bridge for several weeks, and the bandwidth it uses is still around 50KB/s, although the maximum rates are set much higher than that (2.5MB/s, with a burst of 5MB/s). My other middle relay works totally fine at about 8MB/s.

Is this normal?

It does take time for your bridge to see users because these users first need to get your bridge from BridgeDB. Your bridge's distribution mechanism also affects how quickly you see traffic: If your bridge ended up in the email bucket, it may not see users as quickly as a bridge in the moat bucket.

Cheers, Philipp