On 2013-09-11 18:20 , Jesse Victors wrote: > > Hello everyone, newcomer here. > > I'm behind very fast connection (11.5 MB/sec down, 7.5 MB/sec up)
(Most folks would just call that 100mbit, that is if your MB is MegaByte, hence why 11.5 MiB/s would be more accurate). > thought that the Tor network could benefit from my connection, Definitely! > especially since it's apparently been under high load recently. Per the > latest blog posts, I downloaded the beta TBB and configured it as a > relay under Linux. It's been up for almost two days now, yet it's still > being utilized at a very, very small fraction of it's potential. This blog post from today explains the effect and reasoning: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay > In the > network map, I see that my relay has an advertised speed which is again > much slower than it actually can be. IMHO that label should be changed to 'measured speed' as the bwauths take care of that now. > To my knowledge, a web server can > be put under full load right away, and distributing computing projects > use the most of your computer right off the bat. Why doesn't Tor run > computational and/or bandwidth tests and advertise my relay at a much > more actual speed? The bwauths do that, but they don't run very often. > I don't see why a fast relay has to start at the very > bottom of the barrel to begin with. Because otherwise introducing a large set of fast relays and thus hurt anonymity. (On the other side a determined adversary just waits a bit longer) Greets, Jeroen _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
