[tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

Tristan supersluether at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 15:14:27 UTC 2016


Again, bits or bytes? If the original Raspberry Pi can push 1MByte, that's
8Mbits, so you could get 4Mbits both ways.

On Dec 5, 2016 9:08 AM, "Duncan Guthrie" <dguthrie at posteo.net> wrote:

> On 04.12.2016 22:35, Tristan wrote:
>
>> Perhaps this IS in fact normal. I ran a Tor relay on a Raspberry Pi
>> for a while. My speed was about 1Mbps max, similar to your 1.5Mbps. I
>> saw minimal traffic, and the consensus weight never went above 20.
>>
>> I'm not running a relay at home anymore because of the slow speeds.
>> The configuration guide mentions having at least 250KBytes or 2Mbps,
>> and even relays that have 2Mbps probably won't see much traffic since
>> there's plenty of faster middle relays.
>>
>> Keep in mind also that the Raspberry Pi (at least the first one anyway)
> can only push around 1MB/s tops. The ethernet port is basically held on by
> the equivalent of a piece of string! They're suitable for a small mail or
> web server, or some sort of network probe, but not really for any large
> application.
>
> Duncan
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