tor project bridge operators sees decline

If the US server is able to handle the increased load, it will pretty much stay there.Įxample (server has a 10 Gbit/s link): eno1 / daily What has worked much better for me is to run the relays on a fast host in Europe for a couple of weeks, getting a high consensus and advertised bandwidth rate while doing so, and then transferring them back to my server in the US. I got a /28 IPv4 address block for each server, ran 2 relays per IP and got “decent” overall utilization across all of them. How did I deal with it? I first tried the same as you - more relays per host.

I understand that there are some improvements on the way, but it will take time (years). Long story short: It’s old and assuming of the way the internet was 10+ years ago, but it is working. Why is that the case? Because of the way the network measures it’s relays. Even if you have tons of bandwidth, it will be difficult to to get good utilization if you are “far away” from a majority of the network. A large portion of the network is located in Europe with the 10 largest AS by Consensus Weight making up just over 50% alone all being in Europe (source: OrNetStats | OrNetStats ). The response I got is that it has to do with network latency. No matter how much computing power and/or bandwidth I threw at the problem, the results were underwhelming. Spinning up high-bandwidth nodes outside Europe (especially in Asia and on the US West Coast) appears to be a challenge. I have asked a very similar question in the last tor relay operator meetup a short while ago. Yes, but this is a long answer so bear with me. Any suggestions on how to use more bandwidth?

Tor project bridge operators sees decline