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everybody is a <i>client</i>. This means you don't relay traffic for
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anybody but yourself.</p>
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-<p>If you have less than 1Mbit in both directions, you should stay
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-a client. Otherwise, please consider being a server, to help out the
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-network. (Currently each server uses 20-150 gigabytes of traffic
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-per month; but that may go up.)</p>
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+<p>If your computer doesn't have a routable IP address or you're using
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+a modem, you should stay a client. Otherwise, please consider being
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+a server, to help out the network. (Currently each server uses 20-150
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+gigabytes of traffic per month, depending on its capacity and its rate
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+limiting configuration.)</p>
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<p>Note that you can be a server without allowing users to make
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connections from your computer to the outside world. This is called being
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@@ -114,8 +115,9 @@ a middleman server.</p>
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<p> Benefits of running a server include:
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<ul>
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-<li>Clients are generally limited to 100KB/s, whereas servers can inject
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-or receive as much traffic as they want.
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+<li>Clients are generally limited to 100KB/s (and in practice, sometimes
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+much less), whereas servers can inject or receive as much traffic as
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+they want.
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<li>You may get stronger anonymity, since your destination can't know
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whether connections relayed through your computer originated at your
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computer or not.
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@@ -219,12 +221,13 @@ service url</a>).</p>
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<h2>Configuring a server</h2>
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<p>We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections,
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-that have at least 1Mbit each way. Currently we don't use all of that,
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-but we want it available for burst traffic.</p>
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+that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you have more bandwidth
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+to offer, that's even better.</p>
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<p>To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor.
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-(These instructions are Unix-centric; let us know if you get it working
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-on Windows.)
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+(These instructions are Unix-centric; if you're excited about working
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+with us to get a Tor server working on Windows, let us know and we'll
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+work with you to fix whatever bugs come up.)
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</p>
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Roger Dingledine