# Tor relay or WebTunnel?

**URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relay-or-webtunnel/11996
**Category:** Relay Operator
**Created:** [March 20, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relay-or-webtunnel/11996 "2024-03-20T10:59:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![unstuck](https://forum.torproject.org/user_avatar/forum.torproject.org/unstuck/32/4757_2.png) [@unstuck](https://forum.torproject.org/u/unstuck)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relay-or-webtunnel/11996/1 "2024-03-20T10:59:52Z")

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I apologize if this subject has been discussed. I tried looking around the forum but could not find anything. I might just be bad at looking\searching though.

Anyway;

I have a 1gbit up/down connection and hardware good enough to use it fully (in regards to the number of possible connections), and since I hardly use maybe only 5-10% of it I want to donate these resources to the Tor project.

I would like to focus my efforts in providing access to those who are most affected by censorship which is why I am leaning towards hosting a WebTunnel bridge at the moment.

However I also appreciate that the bridge is of less use if the health of the tor network itself is not great (and by “health” I mean specifically the number of “good” relays vs. relays controlled by bad actors)

As far as I understand the priority is:

- exit relay (if you can, which I can’t)
- guard\middle relay
- bridge

Does this priority list account for the new WebTunnel bridge as well, or could adding a WebTunnel be considered more “valuable” than adding another relay (currently of course, I’m not trying to predict the future health of the tor network)

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### Author: ![capole](https://forum.torproject.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@capole](https://forum.torproject.org/u/capole)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relay-or-webtunnel/11996/2 "2024-03-20T15:01:50Z")

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I’d say it is more valuable to run a WebTunnel at the moment, there are plenty of relays and since you can’t help with an exit relay, I believe setting up a bridge is the best option.

Have a look at available [relays and bridges](https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html), if you look closely, there’s been a sudden drop of bridges, which is even more visible if you check [bridges by IP version](https://metrics.torproject.org/bridges-ipv6.html).

If you can, configure your bridge to use IPv6 as well.
