Questions tagged [bandwidth]
The rate of data transfer. It may refer to both the rate what tor requires to function, and also the data rate of the embedded traffic.
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Is there a way to have a Tor relay use more bandwidth as certain times of the day?
I have Tor set up on a Raspberry Pi dedicated to just Tor. I provide what bandwidth I can during the day so that it doesn't interfere with my online activities. I would like to provide most if not all ...
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How does Tor protect against flooding with artificially long circuits
Since the path and the length of a circuit can be chosen by a modified client an attacker could make it arbitrarily long and thus multiply the the impact of his traffic on the network by the amount of ...
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Should I run fast Tor relay or a stable relay is fine?
I recently started a Tor Relay on my own VPS. It has 500GB bandwidths each month, and I limited bandwidth rate to 1500 KBytes.
I don't know which one is better for Tor network:
Running a fast relay ...
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Can anybody explain the Advertised bandwidth, MaxAdvertisedBandwidth, Measured bandwidth, Bandwidth burst, RelayBandwidth rate?
I am confused about a few terms: AdvertisedBandwidth, MaxAdvertisedBandwidth, MeasuredBandwidth, RelayBandwidthBurst, RelayBandwidthRate, BandwidthBurst, and BandwidthRate. Can anyone please explain ...
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What is the most appropriate kind of hardware to run a Tor relay on?
In the purpose of setting up a Tor relay that makes good use of a fast FTTH connection, what computer will do the job most efficiently at the time of writing, provided the following requirements are ...
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Why isn't there any such option - middle-relay behind NAT?
Why is it still required have two open ports, DirPort and OrPort, for a relay?
Imagine such a situation. A Tor user with unlimited network traffic and with that kind great bandwidth stay behind a NAT ...
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Is it possible to team multiple circuits in the current Tor network?
The client-selected paths that carry traffic through the Tor relay network are called circuits. Tor clients switch circuits at ten minute intervals for better anonymity. However, latency and bandwidth ...
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Is my ISP throttling the bandwidth of my Tor relay?
I am operating a Tor relay (OR) as an exit on a 10 MB/s speed network. But when checking from atlas.torproject.org, it shows only 1 MB/s Advertised Bandwidth. Is it that my ISP is throttling my ...
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can anyone tell me about the bandwidth weights?
I have read about Computing Bandwidth weights in Tor directory protocol, version 3. But I could not understand about how bandwidth weights are calculated. And since they appear only once in consensus, ...
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Arm for Tor Relay Bandwidth Descrepancies
I'm running a Tor Relay on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. I installed Arm as to monitor bandwidth. The line that says "Bandwidth (limit: 800.0 Kb/s, burst: 1.5 Mb/s, measured 160 b/s)" claims my ...
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How to deal with DDOS attacks?
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How to protect a hidden service against DDOS attack?
My onion keeps getting hit with denial of service attacks. Is there anything I can do to minimize the effects? POST ...
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