[tor-relays] My Relay speed has dropped nearly to zero - Why?

Gordon Morehouse gordon at morehouse.me
Sun Oct 20 18:19:44 UTC 2013


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Moritz Bartl:
> On 2013-10-20 10:55, Gordon Morehouse wrote:
>> I suspect another user's assessment that Tor middle-node
>> bandwidth is now abundant, and thus nodes below a certain
>> consensus fraction are left out in the cold, may be correct.
>> Just my hunch though.
> 
> The current routing algorithm is not utilizing low-bandwidth relays
> as well as it should. This is a known problem but difficult to 
> solve. If you can provide below 10 Mbit/s, it might be better for
> now to go with a bridge instead (with going through the additional
> steps necessary to set up a 'modern' obfs2/3 bridge).

That's nearly everybody on "broadband" in the US.  There are a lot of
us that would rather run relays.  3, 5, 7Mbps is still reasonably
respectable IMO (and provides headroom when things happen, such as
botnet invasions, if those botnets send a lot of data unlike the
current one).  I run my bridges either piggybacked on VPSes used for
other purposes, or on micro-VPS instances; I feel like my ability to
offer even 3Mbps *reliably* shouldn't be overlooked.

> A relevant ticket is
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1854

Thanks for the link!  :)  I'll poke around and maybe make my point there.

Best,
- -Gordon M.

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