> On Jan 13, 2019, at 18:03, teor <t...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > On 14 Jan 2019, at 09:32, ronqtorrel...@risley.net wrote: >> >> Thanks. I'm curious what, in the consensus, suggests that I'm too far from >> the Authority Servers? I don't know how to read that page; I can't even >> figure out what units they're using to report bandwidth. > > It's a unitless amount due to scaling, but it starts as kilobytes per second.
Good to know. > >> One of the relays is one hop away (via a lightly-loaded terabit switch) from >> the (formerly known as) Level3 tier 1 network, so should have excellent >> peering worldwide unless CenturyLink has degraded it since their acquisition >> last year. The other sits two or three hops (depending, apparently, on the >> phase of the moon) from the tier 1 network run by Telia. So, at least with >> my limited understanding of internet topography, they should both be >> topologically close to most hosts worldwide. > > So your guards have slightly lower than average utilisation: > 1 Mbps / 5.1 Mbps = 20% > 1.2 Mbps / 7.4 Mbps = 16% > > I wouldn't worry about it too much. Okay, I'll try to lose the inferiority complex around my bandwidth usage. Mostly trying to make sure I wasn't doing anything silly that was causing my surplus bandwidth to go to waste. > > On 14 Jan 2019, at 09:49, niftybunny <ab...@to-surf-and-protect.net> wrote: > >> If you really want to know how much Tor will give you, run it as an Exit. >> Tor will love you and gives you every bit of traffic it has. Please don’t do >> this from home or if you are not sure what you are doing etc . (insert big >> fat disclaimer) Unfortunately, I can't do an exit at either of these sites. I'm actively working to line up a site that will support an exit. Thanks to you both for the information. --r _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays