On 25 June 2015 at 05:55, nusenu nusenu@openmailbox.org wrote:
I run a relay in Japan on a gigabit connection, but nobody cares too much, since (I assume) bwauths aren't anywhere near Japan and do not get good speeds to it, they give it a low weight, and as a result it doesn't see a lot of use.
Lets say the BW auth is located on your LAN and gives you "1GBit/s" measurements, that would increase the likelihood that clients choose you but if your 1GBit/s uplink is limited to your city/country and the international uplink is eg. 100MBit/s than the measurement value alone wouldn't help much for non-JP partners, no?
It's not quite that straight forward, as the bwauths don't make a direct connection to a relay, they build multiple tor circuits through a relay.
*) there is no bw auth in Asia in reality, current locations: +----------+-----------+---------------+---------+ | nickname | city_name | region_name | country | +----------+-----------+---------------+---------+ | moria1 | Cambridge | Massachusetts | us | | gabelmoo | Erlangen | Bavaria | de | | longclaw | NULL | NULL | us | | maatuska | NULL | NULL | se | +----------+-----------+---------------+---------+
FWIW this may be misleading, as a bwauth does not need to be located in the same place as a DirAuth. maatuska's bwauth is in Belgium.
-tom