[tor-relays] Bandwidth settings

[Cristian Consonni]

Hi,

On 12/05/2017 19:27, tor wrote:
>> 2. or would Verizon notice first the bandwidth or the amount of data going
>> through our connection? Which would be the first limit? Bandwidth or data?
> 
> It looks like Verizon has a soft cap for FIOS customers, between 4 to 10 TB per month:
> 
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Insider-Verizon-Caps-FiOS-at-10-TB-and-DSL-at-15-TB-133610
> 
> Unfortunately, they aren't explicit about it. They claim "unlimited" but send out warning letters to customers hitting the soft cap. At 170 GB per day, you would use around 5TB per month. They might notice.

besides what was already told you, I would also suggest that you can
experiment with "scaling up" bandwidth a bit.

I am running my relays using cloud providers so I have no direct
experience on how running the relay will affect your day-to-day internet
usage.

What you can do is trying to set limits fairly conservatively at first,
see how it goes and then adjusting the limits (up or down). Repeat until
you are satisfied, all things considered.

With cloud providers you have the same problem of bandwidth because many
"VPS packages" offered have bandwidth limits, so you are in the same
situation and you need to experiment to see how strict they are on those
limits.

Cristian