Our family recently downgraded our internet connection, which limited our upload speed to 1Mbps. According to the Tor relay doc, a minimum of 2Mbps is recommended, yet a relay is considered "fast" if it has 1Mbps.
I think you misread the documentation. 2Mbps is a recommended minimum, but a relay is considered fast if it has 1 Megabyte/sec and Megabit (Mb) and Megabyte (MB) are not the same.
Will I be hurting more than helping if I run a relay on this connection speed? Should I run a bridge instead?
With 1Mbps, you have 125 Kilobytes/sec upload rate. I would say yes, run a bridge instead. But let's see what other pepole say, eventually.
Michael Armbruster
I must have misread something. According to this discussion: https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/423/what-are-good-explanations-for-r...
100KBytes is considered a fast relay. 100KBytes = 800Kbits = 0.8Mbits On Mar 24, 2016 7:16 AM, "Michael Armbruster" tor@armbrust.me wrote:
Our family recently downgraded our internet connection, which limited our upload speed to 1Mbps. According to the Tor relay doc, a minimum of 2Mbps is recommended, yet a relay is considered "fast" if it has 1Mbps.
I think you misread the documentation. 2Mbps is a recommended minimum, but a relay is considered fast if it has 1 Megabyte/sec and Megabit (Mb) and Megabyte (MB) are not the same.
Will I be hurting more than helping if I run a relay on this connection speed? Should I run a bridge instead?
With 1Mbps, you have 125 Kilobytes/sec upload rate. I would say yes, run a bridge instead. But let's see what other pepole say, eventually.
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I must have misread something. According to this discussion: https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/423/what-are-good-explanations-for-r...
100KBytes is considered a fast relay. 100KBytes = 800Kbits = 0.8Mbits
Yes, you are right. According to the standards, 100KBytes/s or faster is enough for a relay, true. I did not find that explanation, to be honest.
I just had the comments from this blog post in mind: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
The first comment and also the answer talks about exactly that. I would say if you can provide stable 100KB/s or more, or you want to be an exit node (then it's more important to have you listed anyway), you should provide a relay. Other than that, be a bridge, that's important to the network, too.
In your case, you should decide for yourself. Just do what you think is right.
Michael Armbruster
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