Neel Chauhan neel at neelc.org at Mon Feb 18 18:05:47 UTC 2019

I feel it's my Linksys WRT1900AC because consumer routers aren't designed for the traffic high-bandwidth Tor relays handle, even after flashing things like OpenWrt.

The router is probably dropping packets and is problem. Also consumer grade switches generally cannot handle FiOS without dropping tons of packets. A one TCP connection speedtest will not trigger overload the way a 7000 connection Tor router does. Dealt with this here by attaching the Linux server directly to FiOS and having it act as the outside router. The relay would run much better but I fried the mainboard with a PCIx NIC overload; swapped in an incredibly ancient system formerly collecting dust on a shelf. Too busy/lazy to put up the newer box waiting to take it's place.