Typo. I would NOT have the courage to run tor from home.... I did worry about added latency. Ping tells me only 1-2ms added...the proxy must be close by. And speed still 70Mbs each way. I am afraid not offering TOR all that bandwidth as need my server for my day job.
-----Original Message----- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim Wilson-Brown - teor Sent: 30 April 2016 12:17 To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Search warrant and house search because of an exit in DE > On 30 Apr 2016, at 19:34, Dr Gerard Bulger <ger...@bulger.co.uk> wrote: > > > I would have the courage to run a Tor Exit from home; home internet in > London too poor to do that anyway, and do not have two IPs here. The > likes of BBC ban you if your IP is listed as an exit node. > > My VPS hosting company sent me various abuse notices once every two > months, which I thought as quite a low rate for 10+Gb a day, but was > still an embarrassment. > > Once I set my outgoing connection via a UK and very fast and > supposedly "anonymous" proxy server service, I have not heard a squeak from anyone. > These proxy services are very cheap, no limits, and offer another > level of difficulty for enquiring authorities. > > There must be a disadvantage is running an exit node this way, but not > sure what it is. Additional latency, and giving the proxy service access to all your Exit's traffic. > > Gerry > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
