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That is a very well-done campaign. Motivated me to donate what I could. Now more than ever the world needs Tor.

jen729w 8y ago
Yep, this has me looking at running a relay now that I have the bandwidth to do it (thanks, NBN). I don’t use Tor personally—I’m lucky, I don’t need to—but it’s an invaluable service for those who do.
- devereaux 8y ago
  If you don't have the resources, don't run a relay. Instead, try to lobby at work to make you site directly available on a onion address. Normalizing is more important IMHO. If you can't do that at work, just install the client on W10, and show it to friends and family. Because there is strength in numbers.
  - jen729w 8y ago
    I don’t have a ‘work’ [0] but I do have a very stable 100/40 connection at home that is very rarely pushed to those numbers. I’ve set it up this morning, I’m running a relay but NOT an exit node, as per Tor’s recommendation. I’ll keep an eye on it and my network connection. Further advice welcomed, I just want to do the right thing. Thank you. [0]: And when I do ‘work’ it tends to be at the sort of place where you absolutely could never run a Tor relay!
    - mindfulhack 8y ago
      All the best. It's uncanny. I moved to a house that had NBN, so I set up a middle relay for the first time in my life. I had an amazing 150/100 connection from Aussie Broadband. Then I moved house again, and now I'm back in a non-NBN area. No more Tor relay from me. I think running relays is great idea to help speed up the network to improve user experience. Just note, for middle relays (which is sadly the only sane option from home unless you're fine with police banging down your door at 4am at any time due to your IP address publicly sharing all manner of illegal material), you may not get use for weeks or even months, apparently the network waits until you prove your track record of consistency first. But it's important to just be there to support sudden surges in Tor use like when a dictatorship crackdown happens somewhere, and en entire country suddenly needs to access normal websites again. So if you can afford the electricity of a small tower running 24/7 at home to support Tor, I'd recommend it, I've done it before. try the tor relays IRC chan for support.
      - jen729w 8y ago
        Their blog post explains this really well. [0] I'm running this on an old Mac Mini which sits under my desk, is ethernet connected to my router, and is never turned off. My only concern is CPU usage, this thing is a mid-2010 Core 2 Duo. It runs quickly enough because I stuck an SSD in it, but I've no idea how Tor might affect it once I start seeing actual traffic. Also interesting that there are only 78 [1] active relays in Australia as of the time of writing. That's not many! [0]: https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay [1]: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:au https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:au
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    Doesn't CloudFlare's new onion routing make a large chunk of the web immediately available over Tor? It seems to me like a great idea.
DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
> Motivated me to donate what I could. thank you!

Yep, this has me looking at running a relay now that I have the bandwidth to do it (thanks, NBN). I don’t use Tor personally—I’m lucky, I don’t need to—but it’s an invaluable service for those who do.

devereaux 8y ago
If you don't have the resources, don't run a relay. Instead, try to lobby at work to make you site directly available on a onion address. Normalizing is more important IMHO. If you can't do that at work, just install the client on W10, and show it to friends and family. Because there is strength in numbers.
- jen729w 8y ago
  I don’t have a ‘work’ [0] but I do have a very stable 100/40 connection at home that is very rarely pushed to those numbers. I’ve set it up this morning, I’m running a relay but NOT an exit node, as per Tor’s recommendation. I’ll keep an eye on it and my network connection. Further advice welcomed, I just want to do the right thing. Thank you. [0]: And when I do ‘work’ it tends to be at the sort of place where you absolutely could never run a Tor relay!
  - mindfulhack 8y ago
    All the best. It's uncanny. I moved to a house that had NBN, so I set up a middle relay for the first time in my life. I had an amazing 150/100 connection from Aussie Broadband. Then I moved house again, and now I'm back in a non-NBN area. No more Tor relay from me. I think running relays is great idea to help speed up the network to improve user experience. Just note, for middle relays (which is sadly the only sane option from home unless you're fine with police banging down your door at 4am at any time due to your IP address publicly sharing all manner of illegal material), you may not get use for weeks or even months, apparently the network waits until you prove your track record of consistency first. But it's important to just be there to support sudden surges in Tor use like when a dictatorship crackdown happens somewhere, and en entire country suddenly needs to access normal websites again. So if you can afford the electricity of a small tower running 24/7 at home to support Tor, I'd recommend it, I've done it before. try the tor relays IRC chan for support.
    - jen729w 8y ago
      Their blog post explains this really well. [0] I'm running this on an old Mac Mini which sits under my desk, is ethernet connected to my router, and is never turned off. My only concern is CPU usage, this thing is a mid-2010 Core 2 Duo. It runs quickly enough because I stuck an SSD in it, but I've no idea how Tor might affect it once I start seeing actual traffic. Also interesting that there are only 78 [1] active relays in Australia as of the time of writing. That's not many! [0]: https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay [1]: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:au https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:au
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Doesn't CloudFlare's new onion routing make a large chunk of the web immediately available over Tor? It seems to me like a great idea.

DyslexicAtheist 8y ago

> Motivated me to donate what I could. thank you!