Bridge relays . . .

Isis, Thank you very much for your description of how it works and the references to the specifications. More and more I've come to realize one should start there.

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It just popped to 700KB, presumably because I used it to browse and then download the TBB bundle as a test.

I believe that client activity shouldn't effect your reported bandwidth (but I'm not entirely sure, actually).

Just tested it again the same way except using obfs3 and the self-reported bandwidth from getinfo dir/server/authority shot from 60 Kbytes/sec to 950 Kbytes/sec instantantaneously. Will show up in Atlas shortly I presume. Based on the description you provided this seems sane enough. Thanks again!