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Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

I have followed this for some time with interest, because I've run 2 relays from "home" connections for over 2 years - at on point three, all on unused older laptops. I have an Archer C7 which can handle 31k connections (theoretically) and have never had issues. My IP address changes maybe 3 times a year. I am set at 1 mb up/down - largely unused compared to its capacity, but I really don't care as long as it runs. I have had as many as 3700 connections but usually 150 or so. I still do not care - I have felt that this still provides for someone, somewhere. I will continue, without getting upset over unused "horsepower". With that said however - if the authority feels I am pathetically useless (reminds me of the testosterone ego of high school jocks) then what would happen if all the small relays - like me - say piss on it? At what point does this entire Tor freedom concept become the field of rich, unlimited bandwidth mavens?
And incidentally, those jocks would never had graduated if not for the "nerds" that tutored them - the little guys provide a hell of a lot more than people realize. 

Gumby

On 12/22/2016 12:47 PM, Rana wrote:



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On 2016-12-22 19:24:25 (+0200), Rana wrote:


2. "Residential lines in particular ... hardware caves when too many
connections are open in parallel" - this appears to be plain
incorrect. [...] ith 1300 simultaneous connections.



His statement is right. 1300 connections are not a lot. I used to have a

symmetric 20 megabytes/second line and the router provided by my ISP would
reboot when reaching around 3600 >connections. Happily, they provided FTTH
so I was able to put a linux box instead of said router and reach 13k conns.

You are a part of a minuscule group of people who have a 160 mpbs symmetric
connection to the home, and the first one I run into in my life. I therefore
doubt that your example is relevant to the discussion - almost everybody
else on the planet does not have this kind of bandwidth to the home, and
cannot saturate a $35 Raspberry Pi with his Tor traffic because their
bottleneck is ISP bandwidth, not hardware. Which was my point.


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