Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Verizon FiOS/FTTH: Advertised Bandwidth capped at ~19.5MiB/s

2019-02-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 09:54:12PM -0500, Neel Chauhan wrote: > This relay is hosted on a 300 mbps Verizon FiOS (FTTH/GPON) connection. >[...] > For some reason, the Advertised Bandwidth is not going above ~19.5 MiB/s. Hi Neel! The very short answer is that this could all be normal. You might fi

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Verizon FiOS/FTTH: Advertised Bandwidth capped at ~19.5MiB/s

2019-02-18 Thread starlight . 2018q2
Neel Chauhan neel at neelc.org at Mon Feb 18 18:05:47 UTC 2019 > >I feel it's my Linksys WRT1900AC because consumer routers aren't >designed for the traffic high-bandwidth Tor relays handle, even after >flashing things like OpenWrt. The router is probably dropping packets and is problem. Also c

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Verizon FiOS/FTTH: Advertised Bandwidth capped at ~19.5MiB/s

2019-02-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:05:47 -0500 Neel Chauhan wrote: > Being capped at 200 Mbps was because `powerd` wasn't enabled on my > FreeBSD, and "turbo" frequencies weren't being used. Enabling `powerd` > means I feel my relay can handle 300 Mbps (and CPU usage dropped because > the clock speed incr

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Verizon FiOS/FTTH: Advertised Bandwidth capped at ~19.5MiB/s

2019-02-18 Thread Neel Chauhan
Roman, But then again the upload will be barely utilized by typical residential Internet users. True. Still my recommendation is to test your bandwidth in multiple ways first, be it speedtest.net, or (better yet) https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli, or iperf3 servers, if you can find a

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Verizon FiOS/FTTH: Advertised Bandwidth capped at ~19.5MiB/s

2019-02-18 Thread torix
Dear Neel, I am running a middle relay on what Verizon sold us as "Business Class" service, meaning upload/download speeds are the same. I just checked my speednet test and got 57 mbps download and 68mbps upload, which seems suspiciously close to your 80mbps. The verizon Actionteck MI424RW, o

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Verizon FiOS/FTTH: Advertised Bandwidth capped at ~19.5MiB/s

2019-02-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:06:05 -0500 Neel Chauhan wrote: > Verizon gives both 300 mbps upload and download speeds. Uploads are more > heavily oversubscribed on FiOS, primarily because GPON gives 2.5gbps > downloads and 1.25gbps uploads. But then again the upload will be barely utilized by typica