On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:06 , tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org wrote:

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:06:42 +1100 From: Mathew wired.kid@gmail.com To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Slow relay speeds for Australian geographic location(s)

Thanks for the in depth post, Teor. I had read the lifecycle article but was concerned when people were posting that their relay was soaking all their bandwidth after a day or two. This makes sense now, given the oversupply and location. It was also worrying when the advertised bandwidth was fluctuating so much and was only advertising a fraction of what actually is available.

The Windows server is using very minimal resources at the moment, and TCP connections are around 250. The router will definitely be able to handle the load, I run a pfSense APU.

TPG doesn't have any bandwidth constraints specifically. They run a lot of their own infrastructure including their own undersea PPC-1 cable https://www.tpg.com.au/about/networks.php. No connection is ever shaped by TPG and I have unlimited bandwidth.

Amsterdam - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3825961515 LA - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3825963543 Boston - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3825964878 London - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3825966771

So you think it isn't detecting all of my available bandwidth due to distance and location and such? Is it just one of those things?

torrc http://pastebin.com/GcTswhQx

Actually, I think it's a matter of waiting on a stable IP and network connection for a month or two. (Your torrc looks fine.)

I was just trying to list all possible factors, however unlikely.

The instability is likely due to the bandwidth authorities (there's only a small number, which doesn't help stability). It will stabilise over time. But I don't think your overall level is caused by the authorities.

Now that I think about it, as far as I recall, the "observed bandwidth" is a notional figure, not an actual bandwidth measurement. Because middle relays are in oversupply, their bandwidths get weighted down. (My middle relays are listed at about 50% of their advertised/link bandwidth.)

Australian middle relays that are getting similar results to yours are: Aquinas DC5E2202E0148A53379F68A04207E04FFA7B4B2D (default) - Windows 8 terranullius - Windows 8 CoD

Australian middle relays that are getting almost their exact advertised bandwidth: Serversaurus

If you can pick the difference, I'm sure we'd be glad to know why!

teor pgp 0xABFED1AC hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5 http://0bin.net/paste/Mu92kPyphK0bqmbA#Zvt3gzMrSCAwDN6GKsUk7Q8G-eG+Y+BLpe7wt...