Thanks for the advice Thomas. What's the exact meaning of RelayBandwidthRate in torrc? I ask because I found having more than about 20Kib/s upload limit for bittorrent made my connection largely unusable, but leaving it without a download limit was fine (damn asynchronicity). How should I decide what an appropriate value should be? Twice the maximum upload limit I can devote to it? Or if I left the value unset would tor likely do a good enough job of deciding on an appropriate bandwidth value?
Nick Quoth Thomas Hand: > Hi Nick, > I was in a similar boat to you for a while. Also UK based with adsl and a > dynamic IP. I found that running a non-exit relay node is fine so long you > limit bandwidth usage in torrc. Wouldn't recommended exit relay unless you > want to deal with your ISP. > If you only run a relay then the censorship list doesn't matter since all > connections between nodes are encrypted, any exit node would suffer > restrictions. I have heard UK ISP s like to monitor protocol and port usage > and sometimes block certain ports. You can always change the port usage in > torrc if you find certain ports blocked. If you find running relay uses too > much bandwidth then going back to running the bridge is very useful for > helping censored users and uses much less bandwidth. A dynamic IP in my > experience can cause the node to become unresponsive and it may need to be > restarted every few days or every week. I have a script set up which emails > me when my afsl node goes down for example. > Hope this helps. > > T > On Jul 11, 2013 9:42 PM, "Nick" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I have a reasonable ADSL connection, and a little always-on server. > > The bandwidth is in the region of 2Mib/s down, something less up > > (maybe 256Kib/s). Is it useful for me to run a tor relay with this > > bandwidth? I'd like to run one which isn't an exit, at least for > > now. > > > > If not, am I correct in thinking that a bridge is an appropriate > > help? That's what I'm doing currently, but if a relay would be more > > useful I'd be very happy to do that. > > > > One other unrelated(ish) question: I'm in the UK, where the idea of > > censorship isn't resisted as strongly as it ought to be, and as a > > result my internet connection is subject to a smallish amount of > > censorship: whatever is on the secret IWF blacklist plus the pirate > > bay. Does this mean that running an exit node from a home connection > > here at some point in the future would not be helpful? Or only if > > all HTTP(S) was blocked (as the IWF blacklist is secret there's > > presumably no way to tell the tor network what is inaccessible from > > this node). > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
