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

[Gumby]

I have followed this for some time with interest, because I've run 2 
relays from "home" connections for over 2 years - at on point three, all 
on unused older laptops. I have an Archer C7 which can handle 31k 
connections (theoretically) and have never had issues. My IP address 
changes maybe 3 times a year.
    I am set at 1 mb up/down - largely unused compared to its capacity, 
but I really don't care as long as it runs. I have had as many as 3700 
connections but usually 150 or so. I still do not care - I have felt 
that this still provides for someone, somewhere.
    I will continue, without getting upset over unused "horsepower". 
With that said however - if the authority feels I am pathetically 
useless (reminds me of the testosterone ego of high school jocks) then 
what would happen if all the small relays - like me - say piss on it? At 
what point does this entire Tor freedom concept become the field of 
rich, unlimited bandwidth mavens?

And incidentally, those jocks would never had graduated if not for the 
"nerds" that tutored them - the little guys provide a hell of a lot more 
than people realize.

Gumby

On 12/22/2016 12:47 PM, Rana wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On Behalf
> Of David Serrano
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 7:36 PM
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic
> IP
>
> On 2016-12-22 19:24:25 (+0200), Rana wrote:
>>>
>>> 2. "Residential lines in particular ... hardware caves when too many
>>> connections are open in parallel" - this appears to be plain
>>> incorrect. [...] ith 1300 simultaneous connections.
>
>> His statement is right. 1300 connections are not a lot. I used to have a
> symmetric 20 megabytes/second line and the router provided by my ISP would
> reboot when reaching around 3600 >connections. Happily, they provided FTTH
> so I was able to put a linux box instead of said router and reach 13k conns.
>
> You are a part of a minuscule group of people who have a 160 mpbs symmetric
> connection to the home, and the first one I run into in my life. I therefore
> doubt that your example is relevant to the discussion - almost everybody
> else on the planet does not have this kind of bandwidth to the home, and
> cannot saturate a $35 Raspberry Pi with his Tor traffic because their
> bottleneck is ISP bandwidth, not hardware. Which was my point.
>
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