On 24 Sep 2014, at 13:38 , [email protected] wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:40:00 +0200 > From: Moritz Bartl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Estimating the value and cost of the Tor > network > > Hi, > > Prices vary widely across different countries. We pay between $400 and > $1500 per Gbit/s per month in "popular and cheap locations". In a > scenario where we want to grow the network and at least keep the current > geographical diversity (or even grow it), we'd have to at least equally > strengthen less fortunate locations. > > The list of the top 20 countries [0] contains countries such as Russia, > Poland, Norway and Hungary, where international bandwidth is quite > expensive. Hopefully someone from this list can help us compile or find > estimates for pricing per country. It would be interesting to learn the > prices even for mid-size (~50-100Mbit/s+) relays in any country outside > of the top five countries, even more so for crazy places that don't make > the top 20. > > Another factor that we should not ignore is that, while it may be > possible to find a set of ISPs that allow mid-size exit relays, it gets > harder the more traffic you push, because of the additional workload > (and scariness) for the ISP from complaints. > > [0] https://compass.torproject.org/ > > -- > Moritz Bartl > https://www.torservers.net/
Mike, Moritz, Re: crazy places that don't make the top 20 I've noticed that most of the Tor network is concentrated in the northern hemisphere, particularly Europe and North America. I assume the distribution of authorities is similar. Apart from China, no Asia-Pacific country makes the top 20 in Tor compass.[1] And no southern hemisphere country makes the top 20 at all. The first Asia-Pacific countries after China are Japan at #29, then Singapore at #37. And unless I've missed something, the first southern hemisphere country is Australia at #42. Details aside, I'd love to see more routers and exits in countries other than the top 4 (Germany, France, Netherlands, United States). This helps spread failure risk, sovereign risk, and the risk from 3 letter agencies and the like. And it would make Tor faster for those in the southern hemisphere, Africa, and the Asia-pacific. But I don't know how much hope there is for this - I've tried to find pricing in Australia, and the figures I've found are: $8000 per month for 100Mbps.[2] $1500 per month for 25Mbps.[3] $800 per month for 10Mbps.[4] That seems ridiculously pricey… I'd rather wait for the National Broadband Network and run one on 100Mbps fibre at 1% of the price.[5] (Except bandwidth would not be guaranteed on a "home"-style plan.) Time to find a sympathetic university? Tim [1]: https://compass.torproject.org/?family=&ases=&exits=all_relays&by_country=True&top=-1#?exit_filter=all_relays&links&sort=cw&sort_reverse&country=&top=-1&by_country [2]: http://www.intervolve.com.au/datacentre/ [3]: http://www.exetel.com.au/corporate/ip-transit-colocation [4]: https://www.xhostsolutions.com.au/services/dedicated-server-unmetered.cfm [5]: http://delimiter.com.au/2014/04/03/unlimited-100mbps-89-99-tpg-equals-top-nbn-plan/
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