On February 13, 2015 5:58:41 PM mattia <sowdust@autistici.org> wrote: Hi,

10 Feb 15 14.02, Elliott:

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    - Is there value in having a marginal unused bridge "in reserve"?     - Is this value greater than that of an active middle relay?

I am interested in this topic too. Any opinion ?

The FAQ is pretty specific about this: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#RelayOrBridge It's more a matter of capacity. Every type of Relay is useful. But you asked for opinions, so here we go. It seems to be the case that the network is well equipped with middle Relays at the moment. If your Bridge is located in a critical country my preference would be to keep it there as a Bridge because access to the network is critical. Just my 0.2 bitcoins ... -- Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations / M.f.G. Sebastian Urbach ----------------------------------------- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. ----------------------------------------- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist and critic.

Thanks all! Keeping it as a bridge sounds good to me. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Sasikantha babu <sasikanthbabu@yahoo.com> wrote:

2 weeks is short period for a bridge, I think it would be the same for relay too.

I've an EC2 bridge and mid-reply(at home) up for almost 2 months. Initially the usage is almost none on bridge, not even 500MB for 50 days, and advertised bandwidth is reported as 50-60KB/s. At one point I too had considered converting EC2 bridge to mid-relay because of no usage but I did not do that and decided to run 1 more month. After 50 days bridge got a guard flag and usage is pretty much good (last 4 days - 18GB-Rx 18GB-Tx) . The advertised bandwidth is now at 500KB/s.

There is nothing like unused bridge. So I would suggest you to wait for some more time.

PS: I'm actually considering to convert my mid-relay at home to a bridge. :)

Thanks Sasi

On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 3:33 AM, Elliott Jin < elliott.jin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I've had an EC2 bridge <https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/FD0814BDD15B2E591B04868B988D87FC6D331D2A> up for 2 weeks, and it seems to have gotten no usage. I'm considering converting it into a middle relay instead, but before I do so, I'm just wondering:

- Is there value in having a marginal unused bridge "in reserve"? - Is this value greater than that of an active middle relay?

Thanks! -Elliott

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