Bridge behavior is decidedly different than normal relay behavior--I've been running one for a year.
Normal relays get poked fairly often by the four "BWAuth" bandwidth authorities and bandwidth starts at 20KB and rises steadily from the get-go.
I suppose the bandwidth calculation is passive in both situations, but with a new bridge there is zero traffic until it's given out to users. So the self-calculation decays steadily to zero instead of rising steadily as with a regular relay. Regular relays get hit with traffic as soon as they show up in the authority consensus.
At 12:05 1/5/2015 +0100, Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner wrote:
I don't have that much knowledge on bridges, but I think it's the same as with relays: The speed increases after some time.
I'm running 29E3D95332812F81F67FF31B3B1B842683D1C309 and as you can see from the graphs the speed increased slowly after the start. On saturday I increased the advertised bandwidth from 100 MBit/s to 200 MBit/s and reloaded tor. That's the only short drop I can see.
~Josef
Am 05.01.2015 um 11:57 schrieb starlight.2015q1@binnacle.cx:
Whoa wow. . .
It just popped to 700KB, presumably because I used it for to browse and then download the TBB bundle as a test.
So I guess that means the bandwidth measurement for a bridge is strictly passive? Presumably that also means that it is not used as a criteria for dissemination?