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I ran the speedtest on my VPS which gave the results below: [...] My Bandwidth results are averaging around 1.5mbs to 3.0mbs via the Tor Globe Stats page.

Can someone tell me how to increase my network bandwidth based on what I am capable of uploading and downloading. I am allocated 2TB of bandwidth per month from my VPS

According to https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/A290A9E71ADFC2FB1C80E64EF851A4B9054501... , the relay has only been around for some short time and is still building up speed; it is currently at 4.5 MByte/s advertised bandwidth.

It can take up to roughly a month before a new relay reaches its 'final' throughput levels. See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay for details.

4.5 MByte/s per direction means that it will reach 2TB within less than three days. You don't want that; you should actually throttle your relay to be around for some more days. I would suggest something like 800 KB/s and a cap on total amount of data per month, which means it will be pushing data for ~15 days per month.

RelayBandwidthRate 800KB AccountingMax 2000GB AccountingRule sum

Maybe this article from the Tor FAQ will help: http://archives.seul.org/or/relays/Aug-2010/msg00034.html

According to the article, Tor can only get 100Mbps per CPU core, and Tor doesn't use any more than 2 cores because it's not fully multithreaded.

You can only run 2 instances of Tor on the same IP address, which means a maximum of 800Mbps, if you do it right.

The answer from this link is pretty straightforward on how to run multiple instances: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14321214/how-to-run-multiple-tor-process...

Just make sure you correctly set the MyFamily option in torrc, otherwise a client could (unlikely but possibly) use both of your instances in the same circuit. On Mar 2, 2016 7:56 AM, "Sebastian Niehaus" niehaus@web.de wrote:

Am 29.02.2016 um 00:15 schrieb Moritz Bartl:

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It can take up to roughly a month before a new relay reaches its 'final' throughput levels. See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay for details.

I am surprised as well because my middle relay has quite a low traffic, at least not as much a I expect.

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7A32C9519D80CA458FC8B034A28F5F6815649A...

Advertised Bandwidth: 7.74 MB/s but it should do more

It is quite a small box but always has free memory left:

niehaus@rocket:~$ vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 185600 93328 4112 73220 0 1 11 12 61 21 5 4 91 0 0

The highes percentage of CPU use in top I have seen is about 15%, there is quite a lot idle time left. AES is supported in hardware, network speed is okay;

niehaus@rocket:~$ bin/speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from arsys.es (82.223.21.74)... Selecting best server based on latency... Hosted by Vodafone Spain (Madrid) [0.00 km]: 7.529 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 385.85 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 242.09 Mbit/s niehaus@rocket:~$

Anything I can do to donate more bandwith? Any more information you need?

-- Sebastian Niehaus Am Freibad West 80 38440 Wolfsburg

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On 2 Mar 2016, at 15:25, Tristan supersluether@gmail.com wrote:

Just make sure you correctly set the MyFamily option in torrc, otherwise a client could (unlikely but possibly) use both of your instances in the same circuit.

Clients also check to see if the IP addresses of the nodes in a circuit are on different /16s. (But it's still good to set MyFamily so it's clear which relays are controlled by the same person.)

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My Bandwidth results are averaging around 1.5mbs to 3.0mbs via the Tor Globe Stats page.

Can someone tell me how to increase my network bandwidth based on what I am capable of uploading and downloading. I am allocated 2TB of bandwidth per month from my VPS

Right now the Advertised Bandwidth is 1.7MB/s and when I scroll down further on the page in the Bandwidth section my "mean written bytes" are 226.15 kb/s and my "mean read bytes" are 227.1 kbs/s

I see several sites averaging 50MB/s-60MB/s on the Top Ten Relays list

If your VPS is only allowed to do 2TB/month, than you won't need any tuning if you are already doing 1.7MB/s.

Sorry I did not read carefully enough (1.7 *advertised* bw).