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

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Hi,

Thanks for the helpful replies & also the link provided make it very
clear.

I will go ahead with my bridge relay.


On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:47:33 -0400, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
wrote:
> 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
> 
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