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Moritz Bartl:
On 2013-10-20 10:55, Gordon Morehouse wrote:
I suspect another user's assessment that Tor middle-node bandwidth is now abundant, and thus nodes below a certain consensus fraction are left out in the cold, may be correct. Just my hunch though.
The current routing algorithm is not utilizing low-bandwidth relays as well as it should. This is a known problem but difficult to solve. If you can provide below 10 Mbit/s, it might be better for now to go with a bridge instead (with going through the additional steps necessary to set up a 'modern' obfs2/3 bridge).
That's nearly everybody on "broadband" in the US. There are a lot of us that would rather run relays. 3, 5, 7Mbps is still reasonably respectable IMO (and provides headroom when things happen, such as botnet invasions, if those botnets send a lot of data unlike the current one). I run my bridges either piggybacked on VPSes used for other purposes, or on micro-VPS instances; I feel like my ability to offer even 3Mbps *reliably* shouldn't be overlooked.
A relevant ticket is https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1854
Thanks for the link! :) I'll poke around and maybe make my point there.
Best, - -Gordon M.