[tor-relays] Slow exit node over VPN

Grozdan neutrino8 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 15:05:05 UTC 2013


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Konstantinos Asimakis
<inshame at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> I am usually connecting to the internet through VPN (Mullvad). Would it
> make sense to setup an exit relay to run whenever I can? I can forward one
> or two ports to my machine. My IP may change often and I might have to shut
> down the node when I need the bandwidth for something else. Also the
> bandwidth won't be much. I expect 40KB/s upload on average with bursts to
> 70 or 80.
>
> Mullvad is obviously already receving a bazilion complaints about forum
> SPAM etc (thus I often find myself blocked from a few sites, having to
> solve captchas in many cases) so I guess they will see no diference.
>
> Hi,

With such a slow bandwidth, I don't think you'll be useful as an exit. You
better be a bridge instead. Bridges don't see much traffic but are useful
for when ISPs/governments are blocking normal relays

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