[tor-relays] slow relays

[ronqtorrelays at risley.net]

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 18:03, teor <teor at riseup.net> wrote:
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> On 14 Jan 2019, at 09:32, ronqtorrelays at risley.net wrote:
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>> Thanks. I'm curious what, in the consensus, suggests that I'm too far from the Authority Servers? I don't know how to read that page; I can't even figure out what units they're using to report bandwidth.
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> It's a unitless amount due to scaling, but it starts as kilobytes per second.

Good to know.
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>> One of the relays is one hop away (via a lightly-loaded terabit switch) from the (formerly known as) Level3 tier 1 network, so should have excellent peering worldwide unless CenturyLink has degraded it since their acquisition last year. The other sits two or three hops (depending, apparently, on the phase of the moon) from the tier 1 network run by Telia. So, at least with my limited understanding of internet topography, they should both be topologically close to most hosts worldwide.
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> So your guards have slightly lower than average utilisation:
> 1 Mbps / 5.1 Mbps = 20%
> 1.2 Mbps / 7.4 Mbps = 16%
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> I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Okay, I'll try to lose the inferiority complex around my bandwidth usage. Mostly trying to make sure I wasn't doing anything silly that was causing my surplus bandwidth to go to waste.
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> On 14 Jan 2019, at 09:49, niftybunny <abuse at to-surf-and-protect.net> wrote:
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>> If you really want to know how much Tor will give you, run it as an Exit. Tor will love you and gives you every bit of traffic it has. Please don’t do this from home or if you are not sure what you are doing etc . (insert big fat disclaimer) 

Unfortunately, I can't do an exit at either of these sites. I'm actively working to line up a site that will support an exit.

Thanks to you both for the information.

--r