[tor-relays] Guard flag?

[Michael Armbruster]

Am 07.04.16 um 20:21 schrieb Michael Armbruster:
>> While I don't have any actual numbers, I'm pretty sure you won't be
>> getting a guard flag with that kind of speed. Actually, I don't think
>> you'll get much traffic at all with that slow of a relay, especially
>> since the recommended upload speed is 2Mbps (1600kBytes/s).
> 
> No, 2Mbps are 250KBps, 2 Megabit = 250 Kilobyte (as 8 Megabit are 1
> Megabyte).
> Recommended minimum upload speed to run a relay is 100Kilobyte/s, so
> 1Mbps is already enough to run a relay. [1]
> 
> To be a relay, your bandwidth has to be at least 250KB/s. [2]

I meant "to be a guard" here, sorry

> 
> [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay#comment-34637
> [2] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2140

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