[tor-relays] Relay bandwidth

Tora Tora Tora tor at allthatnet.com
Sat Feb 8 22:42:21 UTC 2014


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> Actually, what would that be good for? As long as a relay is so lightly
> loaded that the active connections each can have more than than, there
> is no point in throttling them, and as soon as there isn't, they're
> fair-share-throttled down below that anyway.

Uhm, my thought was to make Tor connections "unattractive" to file
downloaders, e.g., P2P, by limit connection speed via Tor. No-one using
email via Tor needs a fast connection, well, unless they send lots of
huge attachments.

I guess I was thinking along the lines of someone having to "assemble"
their P2P download out of 100-1000s of slow connections (if all Tor
connections) vs using 10 fast connections, thus discouraging such use.
P2P would be slower, yet others using the same relay *for
anonymity/privacy* would not be affected as much. I am a Tor newbie, so
probably need to understand better how Tor mixes up connections via
relays, etc.


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