[tor-relays] Why is my fast relay so slow to gain popularity?

Jesse Victors jvictors at jessevictors.com
Wed Sep 11 16:20:08 UTC 2013


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Hello everyone, newcomer here.

I'm behind very fast connection (11.5 MB/sec down, 7.5 MB/sec up) and I
thought that the Tor network could benefit from my connection,
especially since it's apparently been under high load recently. Per the
latest blog posts, I downloaded the beta TBB and configured it as a
relay under Linux. It's been up for almost two days now, yet it's still
being utilized at a very, very small fraction of it's potential. In the
network map, I see that my relay has an advertised speed which is again
much slower than it actually can be. To my knowledge, a web server can
be put under full load right away, and distributing computing projects
use the most of your computer right off the bat. Why doesn't Tor run
computational and/or bandwidth tests and advertise my relay at a much
more actual speed? I don't see why a fast relay has to start at the very
bottom of the barrel to begin with. I can see the logic in slowly
ramping up connections in testing for stability and scalability, but the
progress is slow because it's continually fighting against that existing
average. I can set my requested average and burst bandwidth, but AFAIK I
can't affect my advertised bandwidth. Why are things this way, and is
there anything I can do to speed up the utilization growth?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
Jesse V.

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