If you do not know your bandwidth you can use to measure it. If you have less than 10 Mbit/s but at least 1 Mbit/s we recommend you run a bridge with obfs4 support. The minimum requirements for a relay are 10 Mbit/s (Mbps). It is recommended that a relay have at least 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) upload bandwidth and 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) download bandwidth available for Tor. If you run it behind a consumer-level router at home you will have to try and see if your home router can handle it or if it starts failing.įast exit relays (>=100 Mbit/s) usually have to handle a lot more concurrent connections (>100k). If you run the Tor relay from a server (virtual or dedicated) in a data center you will be fine. This can overwhelm consumer-level routers. Bandwidth and ConnectionsĪ non-exit relay should be able to handle at least 7000 concurrent connections. If you don't meet the requirements to run a Tor relay or obfs4 bridge, running a Snowflake proxy is a great way to donate your bandwidth to help users circumvent censorship.

Requirements for Tor relays depend on the type of relay and the bandwidth they provide.

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