Hi Roger,
Thanks for the kick in the butt. I have upgraded the system (including Tor). If I ever upgrade from ADSL to fiber increasing the bandwidth will be an option.
The largest issue I have had is being placed on blacklist which prevented getting to some websites altogether (eg. Duke Energy, MonoPrice) and others that would claim I was using a proxy (eg. Hulu) or would fail with no error message when trying to complete a purchase (eg. Tesla). I finally tracked this down to BrightCloud, if anyone is having a similar problem. They should make the bother of differentiating between someone using a proxy and someone running a non-exiting Tor relay, but they didn't seem to be motivated to. AT&T disconnected my service when I was configured as an exit node, due to an abusive Tor user, but at least that was rational.
Clyde Zuber www.zuberfowler.com
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:26 PM Roger Dingledine arma@torproject.org wrote:
Hi,
You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/46318685E48EA315588032426892D31...
First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading!
Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :)
You can find Tor packages for many distros / operating systems here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecific... and/or https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#PlatformspecificInstructionsand/or here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/
Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier.
And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam
Thanks! --Roger