Hi all,
After running my relay for a bit on my home connection I found that Tor would happily consume all the bandwidth available, which (coupled with the number of connections overwhelming my home router, I suspect) caused my internet connection to be unusable for other things.
So I set the RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst values to 20 KBytes, as 20KBytes/s is a reasonable amount of bandwidth I can spare (total upload bandwidth on the connection is around 50KBytes/s). However now atlas.torproject.org shows an average of only around 0.5 - 1.5 Kbytes/s usage, and says the advertised bandwidth is 10 Kbytes/s.
Should I increase the RelayBandwidthRate value to more than I can comfortably provide, on the basis that it isn't likely to all be used? Or should I just relax and let the network use my relay as little as it likes?
Sometime quite soon my home internet connection will get much faster; I'm aware the relay is of questionable value at present bandwidth levels, but they should increase in not too long.
Thanks,
Nick