[tor-relays] Having Trouble With Speed Of OBFS4 Bridge

[Keifer Bly]

Hi, based on the heartbeat log, about 2 clients seem to use the bridge every six hours. The log says.

"In the last 6 hours I have seen 2 unique clients. Tor's uptime is 12 hours, with 0 circuits open." 

> How are you measuring the speed? 

On my bridge listing at  https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/148BD64BED9F2C27637D986DE032ECF14E5B9E9A, it says "Advertised Bandwidth 59 kb/s" 

> What have you tried to do to change the speed? What happened?

I have double checked there are no firewalls or anti virus which would cause the issue, their were not, so nothing should be causing speed issues.

As requested, the torrc has been posted with the port numbers removed at 
paste.debian.net/1062702

Another strange thing is that the ContactInfo string is not showing up for some reason, even though when I started tor it said "ContactInfo listed more than once, all but the last entry will be ignored" or something similar.

Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> On Behalf Of teor
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2019 7:43 PM
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Having Trouble With Speed Of OBFS4 Bridge

On January 27, 2019 3:04:37 AM UTC, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:
>So my OBFS4 bridge at
>https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/148BD64BED9F2C27637D986D
>E032E CF14E5B9E9A seems to be having some speed issues, only reaching 
>about
>40-50
>kb/s of speed. This is strange, as it should be much faster than this.

Why do you expect your bridge bandwidth to be fully used?

How many clients are using your bridge?
Please paste a heartbeat log line into your reply.

How are you measuring the speed?

What have you tried to do to change the speed? What happened?

>Where I living, am probably nowhere near the bridge authorities for 
>one.

There is one bridge authority. It does not measure bandwidth.

>I am running an obfuscated bridge (which as this requires an additional 
>process to be running alongside the tor process, could this be a part 
>of
>it?)

Please remove IP addresses and ports, then paste your torrc into https://paste.debian.net .

>I am running off of the only internet provider available in my area 
>(Charter / Spectrum) which is an isp that uses cable structure so maybe 
>they have some kind of limitation in place?

Many ISPs have limits. Many of them don't tell you about them.

>My router is a Netgear Orbi router which should be able to handle up to
>60,000 connections at once so there should be no issue there.

Many home routers have limits. Many of them don't tell you about them.

I can't find the number of supported connections in Netgear's documentation:
https://www.netgear.com/Orbi/CBR40.aspx




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