[tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

[Dedalo]

You should see ToS of Comcast, maybe It could be making Tor Slow.
http://business.comcast.com/customer-notifications/acceptable-use-policy
in technical restrictions, they say something about encryption
circumvention devices.


D.

El 14/09/15 a las 12:26, Greg Moss escibió:
> Comcast modem is in bridge mode with ASA doing the NAT (showing at times
> upwards to 6,000 connections. Believe the ASA is rated to 10,000 + currently
> showing 220 connections). It's a Comcast business line with relay having its
> own static IP. I will have a look at the link provided.
>
> gm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On Behalf
> Of starlight.2015q3 at binnacle.cx
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 10:00 AM
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org; gmoss82 at binnacle.cx.at.gmail.com
> Subject: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic
>
>> My middle relay seems to have minimal traffic.
>> Is there something I need to do or is my damn IPS (Comcast) blocking 
>> me.
>>
>> Node name is gmojo02
>>
>> gm
>
> Possibly the Comcast gateway NAT is unable to deal with lots of connections
> andj/or it may be an older, slow model that can't handle much traffic.  Or
> possibly your connection is just at the low end of the bandwidth spectrum.
> You can see all the Comcast relays ranked by traffic by going to
>
> https: // torstatus dot blutemagie dot de
>
> and at the bottom of the page selecting
>
> Advanced Search:
>
>    hostname contains comcast
>
> Some options:
>
> 1) have a new gateway swapped in
> 2) upgrade to faster service
> 3) switch to a static IP
>    (an option for business customers)
>    and configure the relay on the
>    static IP so it bypasses the
>    Comcast device's NAT
> 4) switch to Verizon FiOS, which
>    is 5x better than Comcast
>    for the same money
> 5) make sure the system running the
>    relay is reasonably fast, i.e.
>    1.8GHz or better and had a decent
>    quality NIC; run speedtest_cli.py
>    and it should match your ostensible
>    Comcast bandwidth
>
> w/r/t (4) check out what happened to my
> relay after switching from 3up/18down
> Comcast to 75up/75down FiOS
>
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/4F0DB7E687FC7C0AE55C8F243DA8B0EB27FBF1
> F2
>
> (keeping in mind the relay is well tuned) You can see all the FiOS relays on
> Blutmagie with 
>
>    hostname contains comcast
>
>
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