[tor-relays] Value of an unused bridge?

[Elliott Jin]

Thanks all!  Keeping it as a bridge sounds good to me.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Sasikantha babu <sasikanthbabu at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 2 weeks is short period for a bridge, I think it would be the same for
> relay too.
>
> I've an EC2 bridge and mid-reply(at home) up for almost 2 months.
> Initially the usage is almost none on bridge, not even 500MB for 50 days,
> and advertised bandwidth is reported as 50-60KB/s. At one point I too had
> considered converting EC2 bridge to mid-relay because of no usage but I did
> not do that and decided to run 1 more month. After 50 days bridge got a
> guard flag and usage is pretty much good (last 4 days - 18GB-Rx 18GB-Tx)
> . The advertised bandwidth is now at 500KB/s.
>
> There is nothing like unused bridge. So I would suggest you to wait for
> some more time.
>
> PS: I'm actually considering to convert my mid-relay at home to a bridge.
> :)
>
> Thanks
> Sasi
>
>
>
>   On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 3:33 AM, Elliott Jin <
> elliott.jin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've had an EC2 bridge
> <https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/FD0814BDD15B2E591B04868B988D87FC6D331D2A>
> up for 2 weeks, and it seems to have gotten no usage.  I'm considering
> converting it into a middle relay instead, but before I do so, I'm just
> wondering:
>
>    - Is there value in having a marginal unused bridge "in reserve"?
>    - Is this value greater than that of an active middle relay?
>
> Thanks!
> -Elliott
>
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