[tor-bugs] #13822 [Tor]: Raise ROUTER_REQUIRED_MIN_BANDWIDTH

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#13822: Raise ROUTER_REQUIRED_MIN_BANDWIDTH
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     Reporter:  arma         |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  needs_review
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  tor-relay, tor-bridge
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Comment (by isis):

 Replying to [comment:11 arma]:
 > Replying to [comment:9 isis]:
 > > Huh… somehow my numbers are way different… which bandwidth number from
 the `server-descriptor`s are you using?
 >
 > Karsten is looking at the advertised rate limits in the descriptors.
 That's what ROUTER_REQUIRED_MIN_BANDWIDTH refers to -- it prevents you
 from starting your relay if you are rate limiting it so thoroughly that it
 will never be of any use to anybody.
 >
 > (You are looking at consensus weights, which is a different thing.)

 Got it, thanks! Sorry for the distraction.

 Should I make a different ticket for DirAuths to do some calculation like
 "If the relay has been measured, and it's been around for X months, and
 its measured bandwidth is below N KB/s, then do not include it in the
 consensus"? Sort of like raising the cutoff ratio for the `Fast` flag, but
 rather, relays which are so slow that distributing their descriptors costs
 more bandwidth than those relays provide, rather than merely not getting
 the `Fast` flag, wouldn't be distributed at all.

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