[tor-relays] What kind of hardware do I need for my relay

Andreas Krey a.krey at gmx.de
Mon Mar 20 21:40:40 UTC 2017


On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:27:59 +0000, Olaf Grimm wrote:
...
> My personal usage drives the internet line to full power, but Tor as my
> MIDDLE RELAY doesn't use the full internet line power.

Which is a good thing, by the way. Tor traffic is bursty, so when your
tor node actually saturating the link it means that the latency goes up,
which means poor user experience. (This is generally so in networks -
full pipes are bad.)

- Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800


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