On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:51:41AM +0100, anonym wrote: > tl;dr: if Tails makes it too easy to use Meek bridges, could it overload the > current set of Meek bridges?
The default meek bridge is already overloaded, unfortunately. Users complain that even though it works, it is too slow. Reports of 20 KB/s are typical. See for example this recent comment from China: https://bugs.torproject.org/33219#comment:9 > ...with the pre integrated meek bridges I just had 20 kb/s, at most > 30, sometimes even lower than 20. So it took me over one hour to > download the browser. Here's the brandwidth chart for the default meek bridge btw. I would guess that the bridge is capable of going faster, but it may have a BandwidthRate set to keep costs from getting out of control. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/8F4541EEE3F2306B7B9FEF1795EC302F6B84DAE8 It's possible to set up a special bridge just for Tails users. It requires setting up a bridge with meek-server (this is the cheap part) and configuring a CDN to point to it (this is the expensive part). But then you can let it run as fast as your budget allows. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#MicrosoftAzure https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Howtorunameek-serverbridge _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
