(from tor-relays)

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Content-wise, there were some pretty fruitful discussion, but we spent quite a bit of time on questions that recurr at other meetups too:

• What's the most useful thing I can bring to the network? (TL;DR: Ideally, fast relays (if possible exits); if you can't contribute more than 1MB/s, make it a bridge)

I like 1MByte/s (8MBit/s) as the "limit" between relay vs. bridge, currently we mention 16MBit/s and 2MBit/s in the documentation:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#HowDoIDecide https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#RelayRequirement...

I'll go ahead and make 8 MBit/s the lower limit (and keep "It is recommended that a relay have at least 16 MBit/s (Mbps)") unless there are strong opinions against it.

Hi,

to have all places consistent, are you open to increase the minimal values in the tor man page for relays to 8 MBit/s (and bridges to 1 MBit/s) or other greater than the current values?

currently it says:

BandwidthRate N [...] If you want to run a relay in the public network, this needs to be at the very least 75 KBytes for a relay (that is, 600 kbits) or 50 KBytes for a bridge (400 kbits) but of course, more is better; we recommend at least 250 KBytes (2 mbits) if possible.

If you are open to it I'll submit a patch via trac.