[tor-relays] Low reported bandwidth

Bert Massop bert.massop at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 17:50:55 UTC 2014


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Rick Kunze <rkunze at colusanet.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm brand new to this, so I'll apologize in advance if this is a silly
> question.
>
> I've just recently set up a Tor box on Debian, all looks well, logs show
> it's happy.  I've got it setup for 100 Meg bandwidth, 200M burst.
>
> My confusion is because when I look it up on Globe or Atlas, it shows
> "Observed" bandwidth as 64.5k, yet it shows "Bandwidth Values" as 100 and
> 200 Meg, as I have them specified in torrc.
>
> My connection is an unloaded Gig-Eth fiber into a data center directly, I'm
> the ISP in this case; no filtering anywhere.
>

What you are observing is normal, expect the observed bandwidth to
increase gradually over time as more traffic passes through your
relay. For details, please have a look at [1].

— Bert

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay


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