My middle relay seems to have minimal traffic. Is there something I need to do or is my damn IPS (Comcast) blocking me.
Node name is gmojo02
gm
Possibly the Comcast gateway NAT is unable to deal with lots of connections andj/or it may be an older, slow model that can't handle much traffic. Or possibly your connection is just at the low end of the bandwidth spectrum. You can see all the Comcast relays ranked by traffic by going to
https: // torstatus dot blutemagie dot de
and at the bottom of the page selecting
Advanced Search:
hostname contains comcast
Some options:
1) have a new gateway swapped in 2) upgrade to faster service 3) switch to a static IP (an option for business customers) and configure the relay on the static IP so it bypasses the Comcast device's NAT 4) switch to Verizon FiOS, which is 5x better than Comcast for the same money 5) make sure the system running the relay is reasonably fast, i.e. 1.8GHz or better and had a decent quality NIC; run speedtest_cli.py and it should match your ostensible Comcast bandwidth
w/r/t (4) check out what happened to my relay after switching from 3up/18down Comcast to 75up/75down FiOS
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/4F0DB7E687FC7C0AE55C8F243DA8B0EB27FBF1...
(keeping in mind the relay is well tuned) You can see all the FiOS relays on Blutmagie with
hostname contains comcast