Hey all,
1. Coming here to learn some quick lessons about bridges+obfsproxy. I'm thinking about that when I see some slow upload bandwidth speed like at home for example. Running a relay will be a bottleneck... so a bridge will be more useful... (less than 1Mbits/s upload :s )
2. If computers running bridges are not 24/24 powered, will it be useful for people ? When I see the "lifecycle of a relay" article, I can understand a relay will be useful if it's always available, but what about a bridge ? (office hours for example)
3. Will this bridge+obfsproxy can be useful for the LAN computers, with Socks for example for LAN connections, to redirect traffic to Tor ? Those services can run together on the same instance ? ex on the doc: SocksPort 4000 #example for the LAN connection (default = 0) ORPort auto BridgeRelay 1 Exitpolicy reject *:*
4. I'm confused, the "bridge" is acting like a relay ? (like a router on a network, 50% upload / 50% download...?). Or like a hidden door to contact the Tor network, and the client will only use relays after without the bridge ? (I don't want this server to be a bottleneck...!)
Many thx for your help and your thoughts about this little contribution!