[tor-relays] Tor bandwith question

[Louie Cardone-Noott]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, at 11:42 AM, teor wrote:
> 
> > On 1 Nov. 2016, at 15:58, <anemoi at tutanota.de> <anemoi at tutanota.de> wrote:
> > 
> > In order to clarify this once and for all: If I setup a Tor relay with 200 kBps, do I slow down the Tor network? What amount of bandwith is needed in order to not slow down the network? 
> 
> In order to get the Fast flag, you need a relay capable of 2 megabytes
> per
> second. Most clients won't use you for anything if you don't have the
> Fast
> flag, so you'll have minimal impact on the network.

Do you mean 2 megabit/s?

Last time I checked 2 Mbps was the minimum for Fast, i.e. 256 KBps. Note
the differing units. I ran a 2 Mbit relay from home for a while and it
got the Fast flag.