Re: [tor-relays] Tor node was doing more traffic than its bandwidth is configured for

On 9/8/13, Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:

Are you sure you didn't confuse bits and bytes? Tor counts in bytes.

(The arm monitor, if that's what you're using, counts in bits by default.)

As with real networks and operators, if this is so, then big thank you to arm people for correctly counting network bandwidth in bps. No thanks on webhosters and isp's who convert their upstrream bandwidth contracts into transfer bytes and pass that on to their customers for their apache logs, thereby spoofing hosted network *bandwidth* apps like Tor into feeling some silly need to count bytes. Do wish Tor would speak properly in bits by default.