This question ties into something I've wondered for a while: Is there a minimum preferred bandwidth rate for relays? I had done some rough calculations a while ago that a $5 VPS from something like Digitalocean could provide approximately 2MiB/s while not exceeding the allotted bandwidth.At that speed, would it be worth adding additional relays?
Friendlyexitnode ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, July 19, 2019 3:40 AM, Stephen Mollett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 19/07/2019 00:06, Keifer Bly wrote: > > > ...as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per > > month... > > A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives about 16kbit/sec if you > spread that bandwidth evenly over the whole month. The only way you > could do it would be to have a relay that hibernates for the majority of > the month, "concentrating" that 4.9GB into a day or so then doing > nothing until the next billing period. > > Whether that would really help the network is another matter - I don't > know how "intermittent" nodes are handled. > > Even running a bridge would be challenging when the bandwidth is that > limited. > > (You might be able to game the system by having multiple VPSes and > moving the node around between them, using a VPN to bring it out at the > same IP address every time, but that opens a whole new can of worms > which I don't even want to think about.) > > Stephen > > 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
