[tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

2017-08-29 Thread W Howard
Dear Group, I have some spare bandwidth and want to run an exit relay buy when I do the normal internet is so slow and I have to fill out so many captcha that it makes it unusable! Any ideas why? I think google etc block by default tor exit nodes. I was thinking about spinning up a vm and runn

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

2017-08-29 Thread niftybunny
RelayBandwidthRate 10 MB # limit for the bandwidth we'll use to relay RelayBandwidthBurst 10 MB # maximum rate when relaying bursts of traffic is your friend. Copy & paste it in your torrc file.Perhaps you should modify the MB/sec rate too :) niftybunny “For too long, we have been a pa

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

2017-08-29 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:33:26AM +0930, W Howard wrote: > I have some spare bandwidth and want to run an exit relay Is this at your home? Careful running exit relays at your home -- there is always some new cop who just started his job, doesn't understand the Internet, has never heard of Tor, an

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

2017-08-29 Thread W Howard
Dear Roger, Thanks for the information. I wanted to run a relay from home to support the project but I may instead contribute financially. One of the up sides of a tor exit relay is the false traffic generated. Our meta data is now collected and I like the idea of filling it with junk traffic.

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

2017-08-29 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:53:39PM +0930, W Howard wrote: > Thanks for the information. I wanted to run a relay from home to >support the project but I may instead contribute financially. You could do both! :) That is, run a non-exit relay from home, and also donate. https://www.torproject.org/do

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

2017-08-29 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:12:31 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:53:39PM +0930, W Howard wrote: > > Thanks for the information. I wanted to run a relay from home to > >support the project but I may instead contribute financially. > > You could do both! :) That is, run a no