On 2013-09-11 18:20 , Jesse Victors wrote:
Hello everyone, newcomer here.
I'm behind very fast connection (11.5 MB/sec down, 7.5 MB/sec up)
(Most folks would just call that 100mbit, that is if your MB is MegaByte, hence why 11.5 MiB/s would be more accurate).
thought that the Tor network could benefit from my connection,
Definitely!
especially since it's apparently been under high load recently. Per the latest blog posts, I downloaded the beta TBB and configured it as a relay under Linux. It's been up for almost two days now, yet it's still being utilized at a very, very small fraction of it's potential.
This blog post from today explains the effect and reasoning: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
In the network map, I see that my relay has an advertised speed which is again much slower than it actually can be.
IMHO that label should be changed to 'measured speed' as the bwauths take care of that now.
To my knowledge, a web server can be put under full load right away, and distributing computing projects use the most of your computer right off the bat. Why doesn't Tor run computational and/or bandwidth tests and advertise my relay at a much more actual speed?
The bwauths do that, but they don't run very often.
I don't see why a fast relay has to start at the very bottom of the barrel to begin with.
Because otherwise introducing a large set of fast relays and thus hurt anonymity.
(On the other side a determined adversary just waits a bit longer)
Greets, Jeroen