Why so little bandwidth used?

[Klaus Layer]

Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com> wrote on 16.02.2011:
> You're right -- low-bandwidth relays are nearly useless.  For security
> reasons, Tor clients must choose the relays in their circuits at
> random.  Tor attempts to load-balance circuits across the published
> relays by weighting the probability with which clients choose each
> relay, but this load-balancing approach cannot make good use of
> low-bandwidth relays.
> 
> If you want to contribute your bandwidth on a slow (50 kB/s or less)
> connection to Tor, consider running a bridge to help users bypass
> Internet censorship instead of running a published relay.
> 
> 
> Robert Ransom
> 

Thanks for this explanation. I will convert my DSL connected relay into a 
bridge. If I look at torstatus there are hundreds of low bandwidth relays. Why 
does Tor not automatically runs as a bridge if the connections is too slow?

Regards,

Klaus
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