Hi, Thanks for the helpful replies & also the link provided make it very clear.
I will go ahead with my bridge relay. On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:47:33 -0400, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote: >> > Tor documentation suggests as little as 20 KB/s can be used to run a tor >> > relay but this seems to be a very low badwidth rate. >> >> As far as I know there were some changes that only with 30 KB/s will see >> something one would call traffic. > > Yes -- but that's only for public relays. > >> Bridges serve a different purpose than "normal" relays. Bridges are used >> to get around censors (or not being "seen" as connecting to the Tor >> network on first glance) where people are happy to reach the website >> they wanted to visit. It's not about pushing large amounts of bandwidth >> back an forth, it's more about providing access to Tor and therefor the >> rest of the Internet. > > Right. I think a 50KB/s bridge is still useful. > > See also https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
