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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
by 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 agoTheir 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