Hi, based on the heartbeat log, about 2 clients seem to use the bridge every six hours. The log says.

"In the last 6 hours I have seen 2 unique clients. Tor's uptime is 12 hours, with 0 circuits open."

How are you measuring the speed?

On my bridge listing at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/148BD64BED9F2C27637D986DE032E..., it says "Advertised Bandwidth 59 kb/s"

What have you tried to do to change the speed? What happened?

I have double checked there are no firewalls or anti virus which would cause the issue, their were not, so nothing should be causing speed issues.

As requested, the torrc has been posted with the port numbers removed at paste.debian.net/1062702

Another strange thing is that the ContactInfo string is not showing up for some reason, even though when I started tor it said "ContactInfo listed more than once, all but the last entry will be ignored" or something similar.

Thank you.

-----Original Message----- From: tor-relays tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org On Behalf Of teor Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2019 7:43 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Having Trouble With Speed Of OBFS4 Bridge

On January 27, 2019 3:04:37 AM UTC, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:

So my OBFS4 bridge at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/148BD64BED9F2C27637D986D E032E CF14E5B9E9A seems to be having some speed issues, only reaching about 40-50 kb/s of speed. This is strange, as it should be much faster than this.

Why do you expect your bridge bandwidth to be fully used?

How many clients are using your bridge? Please paste a heartbeat log line into your reply.

How are you measuring the speed?

What have you tried to do to change the speed? What happened?

Where I living, am probably nowhere near the bridge authorities for one.

There is one bridge authority. It does not measure bandwidth.

I am running an obfuscated bridge (which as this requires an additional process to be running alongside the tor process, could this be a part of it?)

Please remove IP addresses and ports, then paste your torrc into https://paste.debian.net .

I am running off of the only internet provider available in my area (Charter / Spectrum) which is an isp that uses cable structure so maybe they have some kind of limitation in place?

Many ISPs have limits. Many of them don't tell you about them.

My router is a Netgear Orbi router which should be able to handle up to 60,000 connections at once so there should be no issue there.

Many home routers have limits. Many of them don't tell you about them.

I can't find the number of supported connections in Netgear's documentation: https://www.netgear.com/Orbi/CBR40.aspx

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Hi,

Tor isn't like bittorrent or other bull download protocols. It's mainly used for quick web page accesses. So it only uses the data it needs.

Users get their web pages faster if Tor bridges and relays have spare capacity. So spare capacity is really good for users.

Bridge and relay operators shouldn't expect Tor to use all their bandwidth.

On January 27, 2019 7:23:30 AM UTC, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, based on the heartbeat log, about 2 clients seem to use the bridge every six hours. The log says.

"In the last 6 hours I have seen 2 unique clients. Tor's uptime is 12 hours, with 0 circuits open."

2 clients probably won't use all your available bandwidth, unless they are always downloading big files.

But you are still helping them get to the internet. And if they ever do need lots of bandwidth, your bridge will give it to them.

...

How are you measuring the speed?

On my bridge listing at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/148BD64BED9F2C27637D986DE032E..., it says "Advertised Bandwidth 59 kb/s"

Your bridge isn't being used very much. That's ok.

As requested, the torrc has been posted with the port numbers removed at paste.debian.net/1062702

Another strange thing is that the ContactInfo string is not showing up for some reason, even though when I started tor it said "ContactInfo listed more than once, all but the last entry will be ignored" or something similar.

You have 3 ContactInfo lines. You can delete 2 of them.

Bridge contact info is not shown on relay search for privacy reasons. The IP addresses and ports are also hidden.

T

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On January 27, 2019 8:19:43 PM UTC, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:

So, advertised bandwidth is based on how much bandwidth the clients are currently using and not how fast it actually is?

Yes. Here is the description of advertised bandwidth from the glossary:

"Bandwidth

The volume of traffic, both incoming and outgoing, that this bridge is willing to sustain, as configured by the operator and claimed to be observed from recent data transfers."

https://metrics.torproject.org/glossary.html#advertised-bandwidth

I had another question as well, I guess I should update the ContactInfo line to a not obfuscated email address so the bridge authority can reach me easier

We don't send out automated emails to relay or bridge operators. So obfuscated emails are fine.

how can I do this without restarting the relay? I have tor expert bundle installed as a Windows service via powershell

Don't worry, you can restart your bridge whenever you need to. Any clients using your bridge will switch to one of their other bridges.

If you really don't want to restart your bridge, and you have time to look up the detailed steps:

On unix-based operating systems, you can reload Tor's config by sending a SIGHUP. Windows doesn't have signals, but you can send a SIGHUP over the control port using stem or another Tor controller.

You'll need to configure a control port first.

Search the list archives, https://stem.torproject.org , or the internet for details.

If you can't get it to work, write back to us with a link to the steps you tried, and links to a paste of your Tor logs and controller session.

Or just restart the bridge.

T

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On January 29, 2019 3:45:55 AM UTC, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks. I also wanted to ask, is there a way to upgrade tor using Windows Powershell? The way I am doing that is downloading the tor expert bundle when a new one is released and manually replacing both tor.exe and obfs4.exe with the new versions. I have tor installed as a Windows service via powershell, so is there a way to do this? I am asking because the current tor expert bundle is tor 0.3.4.8 whereas I believe 0.3.5.7 has been released. Thank you.

Hmm, I thought someone answered this question already, but I can't find the answer in the list archives.

0.3.4.8 is still a supported version. You don't need to update.

One simple way to keep Tor up to date on Windows is to use the Chocolatey package manager to install the tor package: https://chocolatey.org/packages/tor

It has Tor 0.3.3.9, which is still a recommended version.

You can script chocolately using the "choco" command.

Otherwise, you can script powershell to download and install packages.

I can't help you with the details, because I don't do a lot of work on Windows. But maybe someone else on the list can.

If you work out how to do it, please write back to the list with the scripts you used.

T

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