[tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

[Steve Snyder]

In my experience the amount of monthly traffic is greatly variable. It
can range from nothing (a few megabytes, for housekeeping) to multiple
terrabytes. My understanding is that this is due to which of several
"bins" the bridge is placed in by the bridge authority.


On 7/12/19 12:41 PM, j4c4l4 wrote:
> On Friday, July 12, 2019 1:28 PM, Peter Ludikovsky <peter at ludikovsky.name> wrote:
> 
>> Just how much traffic can one expect when running a bridge? Is it
>> comparable to being an entry/middle node?
>>
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> I was about to ask the same question. I have been running an obfs4 bridge
> for several weeks, and the bandwidth it uses is still around 50KB/s, although
> the maximum rates are set much higher than that (2.5MB/s, with a burst of
> 5MB/s). My other middle relay works totally fine at about 8MB/s.
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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