[tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

[Chris Whittleston]

Thanks for running a relay Torzilla.

If you do decide to get a Raspberry Pi, the step-by-step middle relay setup
tutorial here might be useful:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bf_D_j1O-9ckTS9DY8ngIdiFwHta6Q5Uj_5dvOiavCQ/edit?usp=docslist_api

If you want to set it up as a hidden bridge, you'll need to slightly modify
things, but it should help you get started at least :)

Good luck!

Chris
On 7 Oct 2014 14:57, "Tor Zilla" <torzilla11 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Julien,
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> Thanks a lot for your reply.
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> I got your point now..
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> You are right. I am using a DSL connection and my IP keeps changing
> often....
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> What i am going to do is setup a bridge instead of a non exit relay and
> watch how much i can contribute to the community.
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> If all goes well i will buy a Raspberry Pi and setup that up permanently
> as that's a cost effective way ;)
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> I am also thinking of making a stand alone Pi Onion Router so that all
> traffic is anonymous but that's a small project which i will work on once
> this bridge thing works..
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> Thanks again,
> Torzilla11
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> > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:31:54 +0200
> > From: julien.robin28 at free.fr
> > To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay
> >
> > Hi, and welcome ;)
> >
> > With a very tiny bandwidth dedicated to your Tor Relay, the consensus
> weight of your relay will be very tiny (so may be nobody will be using it,
> because Tor Users have too great chances to take another bigger one).
> >
> > If, moreover, the relay has a lot of big down times (hours), it's
> disappearing of the consensus list everytime, making nobody can find it for
> several hours after you start it again.
> >
> >
> > The Tor Network is promoting more and more very fast relays in order to
> make the network faster for users (fast relays : like 10MB/s) by giving big
> consensus weight bonus for big machines, and that's making tiny relays less
> and less used on the network.
> >
> >
> > But, there is a hope :
> >
> > With a DSL connexion (100KB/s Upload max) you can get some usefull
> traffic (some gigabytes per week) by setting a hidden bridge.
> > If the IP Address of the connexion is changing time to time, it's really
> good for a hidden bridge.
> >
> > For me, it's on a 24/7 Raspberry Pi (in order to be silent and cheap
> powered ! Very low power consumption)
> >
> > Good luck !
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> > ----- Mail original -----
> > De: "Tor Zilla" <torzilla11 at hotmail.com>
> > À: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> > Envoyé: Mardi 7 Octobre 2014 13:20:18
> > Objet: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am a noob to the Tor community and its fun serving Tor as one of the
> relays. I am planning to setup multiple relays however before i jump into
> anything further i setup one machine as a non exit relay to test how much
> traffic i can route.. Not to forget i also read the article on
> torproject.org which mentions the life cycle of a relay.. Now its the 4th
> day of my relay and the traffic is almost nothing but as per the article i
> must see an increase in traffic on day 4.. The machine is ON for almost an
> hour now and the traffic is too less.
> >
> > Received : 3.62MB
> > Sent : 1.6MB
> >
> > My dedicated bandwidth to Tor is 60 KB/s.. Do i need to keep the machine
> on 24/7 because as of now its just ON for 3 to 4 hours.. Assuming that the
> traffic is low on the entire Tor network is this kind of traffic normal or
> something is wrong on my side..? Your help will me much appreciated..
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Torzilla11
> >
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