OR Addresses: IPv4,IPv6
Advertised Bandwidth: 20.57 KiB/s
Flags: Running Valid
Additional Flags: ReachableIPv6
Platform: Tor 0.4.8.12 on Linux
Transport protocols: webtunnel
Bridge distribution mechanism: Settings
The network speed on the server is much higher than Advertised Bandwidth indicates.
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Fiberby ApS (Copenhagen) [521.36 km]: 8.22 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 883.83 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 237.04 Mbit/s
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by TDC Group (Copenhagen) [521.36 km]: 7.643 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 465.02 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 897.84 Mbit/s
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Stadtwerke Lübeck GmbH (Lübeck) [755.39 km]: 11.062 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 837.83 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 787.22 Mbit/s
I see kind of the same thing except I operate a Snowflake proxy. A slight drop starting on 2025/06/04 then a bigger drop on 2025/06/06. The numbers on 2025/06/07 are 3-4% of the average traffic since 2024/11/23 when I started this project. The only metric I have is KiB reporting each hour like this: 2025/06/07 23:59:29 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 60 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 8848 KB (2.46 KB/s), ↑ 1700 KB (0.47 KB/s).
Other things I’ve noticed:
Most of the clients in this time period since 2025/06/04 are from IR and are 30 minutes or less in duration. During this period the completed successful connections in the message above are consistently around 40-60 whereas they are really lower (visually - have not analyzed properly- analysed 2025.06.09) than that before.
The Timed out waiting for client to open data channel numbers have really spiked. This tells me people are trying to connect but cannot and as above the ones who do connect are connected less than 30 minutes.
Most proxy operators would not have these stats. I compute them. I allow max 9 clients.
At first I thought there was a general slow down on the internet. Things seemed slow.
How can I turn it off? If I remove ORPort from torrc, the relay does not start.
Jun 11 18:35:56 t tor[179529]: Jun 11 18:35:56.583 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: BridgeRelay is 1, ORPort is not set. This is an invalid combination.
Jun 11 18:35:56 t tor[179529]: Jun 11 18:35:56.584 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
Jun 11 18:35:56 t systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 11 18:35:56 t systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 11 18:35:56 t systemd[1]: Failed to start tor@default.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP.
And I’m using a firewall with 3 open ports: 22, 80, 443. The ORPort is unavailable.