Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

On 13-10-09 12:24 PM, Lunar wrote:

Raistlin Majere:

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Let me try another way of asking that first question .. how much bandwidth is required for the relay to be useful?

See “Is it worth running a relay on a home broadband connection?” in https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-July/028996.html

Roger Dingledine drew the cut [23]: “at this point if you‘re at least
800kbit (100KBytes/s) each way, it‘s useful to be a relay.”

[23] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-July/002255.html

The other half of that answer to an FAQ is, for those who dont have that sort of bandwidth to share, it is still worthwhile to run a bridge. Bridges are supposed to be lesser known and have lower consequences to the network if one of them is exposed, but can be life-saving to Tor users who need one.