Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Rana
OK then let me summarize. 1. You are running a Pi from Cologne, at 21 mbps (measured) peak, 900 kbps (measured) average utilization by Tor, with 1300 connections. 2. Your Pi is under-utilized, probably limited by your ISP’s peering with those to which DirAuths are connected. 20% CP

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16
Hi Peter unfortunately your message is empty, it only shows the signature. This occurs with all signed messages. I have no idea how to solve the problem.Mike Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Peter Ludikovsky Datum: 15.12.16 07:22 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16
Pls. refer to may answers after each of your questions. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Rana Datum: 15.12.16 07:44 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? >Hi There>This is a pretty interestin

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Rana
>Hi There >This is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 based >relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming and >outgoing connections, and a max of >about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the >max. upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16
Hi ThereThis is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 based relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming and outgoing connections, and a max of about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the max. upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6,

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Pascal Terjan
On 14 Dec 2016 14:49, "Rana" wrote: -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Niehaus Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:43 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of e

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Rana
-Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Niehaus Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:43 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? Am 14.12.2016 um 11:46 sc

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Sebastian Niehaus
Am 14.12.2016 um 11:46 schrieb Rana: > They do, however, have different numbers as to how much traffic they can > carry; which in view of the above IMHO can be attributed only to the > difference in how well their respective IPSs connect with the ISPs in places > where DirAuths are located. W

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Pascal Terjan
On 14 December 2016 at 11:42, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:43:28 +, teor wrote: > ... > > The bwauth calculations do take latency into account, and they should: > > if CPU usage or bandwidth are near their limit, the latency through the > > relay will be high. > > I stand corr

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread teor
> On 14 Dec. 2016, at 22:42, Andreas Krey wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:43:28 +, teor wrote: > ... >> The bwauth calculations do take latency into account, and they should: >> if CPU usage or bandwidth are near their limit, the latency through the >> relay will be high. > > I stand corr

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:43:28 +, teor wrote: ... > The bwauth calculations do take latency into account, and they should: > if CPU usage or bandwidth are near their limit, the latency through the > relay will be high. I stand corrected. I observed my relays (a few years ago) to often run into

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:46:58 +, Rana wrote: >... > I beg to differ. My experiment with two identical Pies in the same country > showed that the alleged volume that the relay can carry IS dependent on how > well it is connected to the specific DirAuths (which represent "particular > places in

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Rana
>Since the consensus weight is the low-median of 5 measurements spread around >the US and Western Europe, being in Germany only gets you one good >measurement: you need 3 good measurements >to get a high consensus weight. > >From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median : > > Because of this, the med

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread teor
> On 14 Dec. 2016, at 21:46, Rana wrote: > > I did see a report from someone boasting the large bandwidth via Pi at home - > but this seems to be an exception rather than a rule, and he was in Germany, > probably at a cozy digital distance from the local DirAuth :) Since the consensus weight

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Rana
>> A. The fact that the Authorities are located in West Europe and North >> America does not mean that the USERS are there. >The question is what volume a relay can carry, and not how well it is >connected to a particular place in the world. I beg to differ. My experiment with two identical Pi

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread teor
> > On 14 Dec. 2016, at 19:47, Rana wrote: > > Why, while GG2's speed as MEASURED by tor and reported in atlas is 153.6 > kbytes/sec, its actual bandwidth utilization is about 0.3 kbytes/sec (=0.2% > of its capability) is still beyond me, and resolving this by further > increasing bandwidth d

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:47:12 +, Rana wrote: > I want to reiterate my opinion that Tor network is "mistreating" home-based > relays without good reason: I was just about to jump in and state that it is similar with lower-bandwidth regular relays, but I checked. I have two relays, one new

[tor-relays] Did you recently start >750 bridges?

2016-12-14 Thread nusenu
Hi, If you recently added >750 bridges (without malicious intend) or know anything about it, please read this thread: [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-December/000851.html and get in contact with them (without disclosing the location of your bridges to the public). r

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread Rana
-Original Message- >From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of >teor > Your relay's observed bandwidth is >ZG0: 81.35 KByte/s >GG2: 170.79 KByte/s > > (hover over the > bandwidth heading in atlas for these details), so its consensus weight > will be li