Re: [tor-talk] Tor Relay Smartphone App

[Casey Rodarmor <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also, might there be a way for nodes to advertise their speed? Assuming
that there is no incentive to lie about being slow, it might be a useful
heuristic so that a node with any bandwidth can join and benefit the
network.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Casey Rodarmor <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is the minimum bandwidth/latency that a node requires in order for it
> to benefit the network? I read here* that 100 kilobytes/s each way would be
> enough, which I imagine many phones are capable of handling, and represent
> a small fraction of a wifi network's bandwidth.
>
> *https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:04:37AM +0100, 4dcb8ec3@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Hi, yes it's called Orbot see here
>> >
>> >
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android&hl=en_GB&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dorbot&pcampaignid=APPU_Hbc5VJLDFMjB7AaK9oBw
>> >
>> > And here's a Reddit thread on setting it up as a non exit node
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2im3cz/turn_your_android_into_a_tor_relay_get_bitcoin/
>>
>> Unfortunately, your smartphone likely doesn't have the cpu to push much
>> traffic, and also your home wifi or equivalent very likely doesn't have
>> the bandwidth to be a good relay.
>>
>> So this is a really appealing idea in theory, but in practice such relays
>> are much much less useful than faster relays -- to the point that slow
>> relays actually hurt the network because they produce bad performance
>> for users who are unlucky enough to pick them.
>>
>> It would be cool to live in a world where things were different --
>> perhaps one day somebody will do the rest of the research and
>> engineering work involved in making the Conflux design work:
>> http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#pets13-splitting
>> But we took a step in the direction away from Conflux when we moved
>> from three guard nodes per user to one.
>>
>> --Roger
>>
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