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How to increase the Advertised Bandwidth of Tor onion router (OR)?
Advertised bandwidth as reported by atlas and globe is really what is
observed as of far. Your relay has only been up for four days, and as your
relay proves its reliability and speed, advertised ...
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What's a good RelayBandwidthRate?
The Tor Project now recommends at least 250 kilobytes/second each way to keep the level of service at least somewhat sane for users. Providing less bandwidth than that is actually a net drain on ...
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What's a good RelayBandwidthRate?
There's basically always a shortage of bandwidth in the Tor network, so every amount of Bandwidth you can donate helps.
Additionally, your relay usually serves more than one circuit at a time, so any ...
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What does the heartbeat line in my torrc mean?
Those logs mean that you have transmitted 159 GB and received 157 GB as a total during the 5 days, which means you have sent only 31 GB in the period between the 2 log messages.
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can anyone tell me about the bandwidth weights?
Maybe it's easiest to explain this by example. The following comes from the current consensus:
[...]
r TorNinurtaName AA8YrCza5McQugiY3J4h5y4BF9g TsD6f/8KF1h7Npm/w2vgkzDumjY 2014-05-08 23:15:06 151....
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Can anybody explain the Advertised bandwidth, MaxAdvertisedBandwidth, Measured bandwidth, Bandwidth burst, RelayBandwidth rate?
I'll give it a try:
BandwidthBurst: The maximum bandwidth of short spikes in network traffic. While Tor tries to use BandwidthRate on average, it may use this value for short bursts. It was advised ...
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Relay bandwidth reporting frequency
Newer versions of Tor don't report data as accurately anymore, but globe hasn't been updated yet to deal with that. It's nothing to be concerned about.
The change was introduced in 0.2.5.11 with the ...
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How does Tor protect against flooding with artificially long circuits
The type of attack you are describing is a congestion attack. In theory, the simplest form of such an attack would be a general DoS on the Tor network.
Taking things one step further, a congestion ...
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What is the most appropriate kind of hardware to run a Tor relay on?
TL;DR:
Tor does not make much use of more than one core, two cores (or one hyperthreaded core) per process is best
a maximum of two Tor processes may register from a single IP, so a CPU with 4 cores ...
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Why my relay is so slow?
Have you read the lifecycle of a new tor relay? In particular:
So that's phase one: your new relay gets basically no use for the first few days of its life because of the low 20KB cap, while it ...
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Qualities of a good relay (besides the obvious)
I'll give it a shot:
consistent fast speed being #1
rewards based on total bandwidth available/consumed per period
total consistent uptime
Identity verification (at least online or via email)
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Arm for Tor Relay Bandwidth Descrepancies
The measured bandwidth is mostly determined by external measurements by the Bandwidth Authorities. The following should help explain it...
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
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Does Directory Traffic count towards Consensus Weight?
No it does not. (..and neither does the OR traffic.)
The idea that 'traffic counts towards consensus weight' is not how it works. As I understand (from the linked document), the bandwidth is measured ...
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Should I run fast Tor relay or a stable relay is fine?
This is a tough one. You don't have enough bandwidth to become a guard, so assuming you're not running an exit node, your node will only be used in the middle position. 500GB / month is about 100KB/s, ...
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Should I run fast Tor relay or a stable relay is fine?
The choice is yours to make. There are advantages and disadvantages to both scenarios. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of each scenario are listed below.
Advantages of stable relay:
If the ...
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Are these specs (VPS) good enough to run a Tor relay?
Those specs don't include CPU speed, number of cores, network speed. 512MB of RAM may be a bit tight.
You can use the following directives in your torrc to influence the bandwidth usage of your ...
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Probability by bandwidth: Using multiple or one Relay with equal total Bandwidth
There are multiple practical reasons where five ORs of bandwidth X MB/s each could be superior to one OR of bandwidth 5X MB/s. There are some restrictions and exceptions to this point in general. This ...
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Default relay bandwidth?
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
The tl;dr of the link above is that it can take 2 months to ramp up to full utilization.
Note also that the more bandwidth you are providing,...
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Better to run one relay or two, given equal total bandwidth?
One relay is probably better, both for performance and anonymity (assuming the relays would run on the same machine).
Performance: There's no obvious performance gain by running two relays with half ...
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Better to run one relay or two, given equal total bandwidth?
One relay with 4TB, with the relay using up the 4TB quota as fast as possible.
Faster relays are more attractive to traffic, so the network is better off if you move that 4TB in a week then hibernate ...
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Tor benchmark resources
You can find average bandwidth over time for each relay on Atlas and Globe.
Metrics on the network as a whole are here: https://metrics.torproject.org/
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Why my relay is so slow?
Try this maillist: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-August/025296.html
This is Edward Snowden.
Hi guys,
I've been running a kind-of 1gbps (voxility style 1gbps) exit ...
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Does Tor have any protection against bandwidth misuse?
Tor doesn't differentiate between "good" and "bad" traffic. For the network is no difference if there are 100 new users doing their stuff or one person with 100 instances. So if one user decides to ...
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Finding available bandwidth of a relay
Not really. You can know it's observed bandwidth, and what it's throughput has been seen to be but not "available" bandwidth. That would require knowledge of, for example, the upperbounds of ...
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Tor relay bandwidth not corresponding
Atlas shows an average of actual bandwidth, i.e. what was actually used. It does not show the limits, because they are not published anywhere on Atlas: they're set just for reference of your very ...
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How to remove all bandwidth limits for Tor relay?
The configuration file torrc has an option AccountingMax. It is used to set the maximum number of bytes a relay can send and receive:
AccountingMax N
bytes|KBytes|MBytes|GBytes|KBits|MBits|...
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Calculating relay bandwidth/burst
Rather than setting a bandwidth/burst, consider enabling the bandwidth accounting:
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#AccountingMax
Limits the max number of bytes sent and ...
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Why my relay is so slow?
TorServers.net has an excellent wiki entry on setting up exit relays. I'll write some additional hints below:
You should make sure that you have a "real" 100MB/s connection. Several providers tell ...
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