New user question about Directory mirroring & bittorent

[NATHANIEL HOMIER]

Thanks for the answers and suggestions.

If I put in MaxAdvertisedBandwidth what does this do exactly.  I had 
assumed that tor already broadcast your BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst 
settings.  The docs don't really explain in a way I can understand 
clearly.  So I am guessing the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth setting will 
broadcast and the other 2 are local to your computer.

On my ADSL line my ISP does no filtering except port 25 and no 
throttling and no caps.  So I don't need to worry about max bandwidth.  
I decided to change BandwidthRate to 30KB and BandwidthBurst to 40KB.  
As for Azureus I will change it to 25KB up.  That will leave me 25KB 
total leftover up.  I use PPPOE and that has a bit more overhead for 
ADSL lines although I don't know about cable modem lines.

Ashton Vaz wrote:
>
>> Hello all.  My name is Nate.
>
> Hey Nate!
>
>> I just started using tor as a client and server.  I have 2 questions 
>> that I can't find an answer to in the wiki and docs.  I have my 
>> BandwidthRate, BandwidthBurst set to 50KB as my ADSL line is 500KB 
>> down and 90KB up.
>
> Don't forget to set AccountingMax & AccountingStart as well.  If you 
> don't, you could be in for a huge price shock at the end of the 
> month.  Many ISPs have a monthly bandwidth cap and charge ridiculous 
> amounts of money for each MB or GB over the cap.  In your case each 
> month at full utilization, you would use 248 GB [(50KB/s up + 50KB/s 
> down) * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 30 
> days/month]for Tor traffic alone!  If you were with my ISP, you'd have 
> to pay an additional $ 1, 128 CAD [(248-60) * $6/GB] each month.  
> That's why I'd strongly urge you to set up a reasonable AccountingMax 
> & daily AccoutingStart.
>
>> Any advice on how to carve up my bandwidth for Tor, torrent, Web 
>> browser, E-Mail would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Tor version: 0.1.0.16-1~breezy.1
>> ADSL
>> 500KB down
>> 90KB up
>
> In my case (rogers.com), I have a 60GB monthly limit (5Mbps down, 
> 768Kbps up -> 640KBps down, 96KBps up) with a 6 CAD/GB charge if I 
> exceed it.  Since there's 4 computers sharing my connection (email, 
> webserving, gaming, Shareaza, Azureus) while I'm also running Tor & a 
> webserver I have to be careful with my usage.  Read the notes for 
> AccountingStart to understand why I've chosen daily & not monthly 
> accounting for Tor.  Here are my current settings for bandwidth control:
>    BandwidthRate 30 KB
>    BandwidthBurst 40 KB
>    MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 30 KB
>    AccountingMax 262144 KB
>    AccountingStart day 00:00
> According to the settings above, I'll use (256MB/day up + 256MB/day 
> down) * 30 days = 15 GB.  I'm running Tor, i2p, Freenet, web server, 4 
> browsers, 3 Azureus, 3 Shareaza, 2 gamers, 3 email clients. This 
> leaves me with 8GB per month "spare" and no noticeable performance drop.
>
> For each Shareaza client (x3) and Azureus client (x3) I have 192KBps, 
> 28KBps up.  That leaves me with about 64KBps down, 12KBps up spare 
> even if all three clients are running simultaneously.  This is 
> acceptable for our browsing, emailing & gaming purposes.  Your mileage 
> may vary!
>
> You can probably double my Shareaza/Azureus settings if you're only 
> using a single computer and still have a reasonable experience. Once 
> again - *please* watch your maximum bandwidth - don't go over your 
> monthly cap. Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ashton
>
>
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