[tor-relays] Min. Bandwidth for Bridge Relay?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote:
> > Tor documentation suggests as little as 20 KB/s can be used to run a tor
> > relay but this seems to be a very low badwidth rate.
> 
> As far as I know there were some changes that only with 30 KB/s will see
> something one would call traffic.

Yes -- but that's only for public relays.

> Bridges serve a different purpose than "normal" relays. Bridges are used
> to get around censors (or not being "seen" as connecting to the Tor
> network on first glance) where people are happy to reach the website
> they wanted to visit. It's not about pushing large amounts of bandwidth
> back an forth, it's more about providing access to Tor and therefor the
> rest of the Internet.

Right. I think a 50KB/s bridge is still useful.

See also https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge

--Roger