On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:33:26AM +0930, W Howard wrote:
I have some spare bandwidth and want to run an exit relay
Is this at your home? Careful running exit relays at your home -- there is always some new cop who just started his job, doesn't understand the Internet, has never heard of Tor, and wants to prove how great he is at being a cop.
See also the "Should I run an exit relay from my home?" question on https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq
You might want to run a non-exit relay in that situation instead.
buy when I do the normal internet is so slow
The simple option is to turn on rate limiting so it uses a little bit less than your full Internet connection.
The more complex option is: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/contrib/operator-tools/linux-tor-... was once a script that some people used to set the priority lower on their Tor traffic compared to the other traffic. You need to either run it on the router, or run it on the computer that generates both the Tor traffic and the other traffic.
and I have to fill out so many captcha that it makes it unusable!
Any ideas why? I think google etc block by default tor exit nodes.
Yes, correct. :( That's why many people who run exit relays use a separate IP address for them.
See also https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-...
I was thinking about spinning up a vm and running tor on that.
Plausible!
When I run as a bridge I don't see much traffic. Any ideas?
Many bridges don't see much traffic, especially compared to fast relays. See also https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge
Thanks! --Roger