It ate all my monthly bandwidth limit within an hour. By simple analysis I found out it's mostly BitTorrent traffic, but I didn't dig very deep so I might be wrong.
I would love to run a Tor relay, but I just do not have unlimited bandwidth to do that.
It would seem there is more demand than supply when it comes to Tor relays. If there were a safe, anonymous way to pay for using Tor relays (Torcoin?), then there would be a lot more incentives to have people run relays. That means the speed will be bumped up and at one point there will be an equilibrium between supply and demand. The system might also provide preferential treatment to users who are willing to pay more.
There is an option in the config to limit the amount of bandwidth used by the relay.
BandwidthRate N bytes|KBytes|MBytes|GBytes
In combination with accounting you can limit monthly or daily usage - has to be over 30kb/s to be usable by the network, so may not be feasible, but worth knowing.
It ate all my monthly bandwidth limit within an hour. By simple analysis I found out it's mostly BitTorrent traffic, but I didn't dig very deep so I might be wrong.
I would love to run a Tor relay, but I just do not have unlimited bandwidth to do that.