Problem is that Tor is mostly used for web browsing and the amount of graphics and videos is increasing. You do not want to surf with >1 mbit at all and maybe there are two users on this relay so we have >0.5 mbit ….
If a first time user is surfing over Tor with 1 mbit he will uninstall it ... > On 25. May 2021, at 16:52, Logforme <m7...@abc.se> wrote: > > On 2021-05-25 12:08:34, "John Csuti" <postmas...@coolcomputers.info > <mailto:postmas...@coolcomputers.info>> wrote: > >> I second this. We are in 2021 and a relay is considered fast if it is above >> 100KB/s...? I don’t think a later dialup service should be considered a fast >> relay. > > 100KB/s is about 800Kb/s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-rate_units > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-rate_units>). I envy the dial up modems > you had :) > > I agree it is not fast, but is it "fast enough" for Tor's purpose? The Fast > flag is (was?) also described as "the router is suitable for high-bandwidth > circuits". > If I used Tor for high bandwidth stuff I'd hate to get a relay like that in > my circuit. Especially if it also acts as a HSDir provider. > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > <https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays>
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