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lower the bandwidth requirements from 1MBit to 20KBytes

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Roger Dingledine 21 years ago
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@@ -103,10 +103,11 @@ your security</a>.</p>
 everybody is a <i>client</i>. This means you don't relay traffic for
 everybody is a <i>client</i>. This means you don't relay traffic for
 anybody but yourself.</p>
 anybody but yourself.</p>
 
 
-<p>If you have less than 1Mbit in both directions, you should stay
-a client. Otherwise, please consider being a server, to help out the
-network. (Currently each server uses 20-150 gigabytes of traffic
-per month; but that may go up.)</p>
+<p>If your computer doesn't have a routable IP address or you're using
+a modem, you should stay a client. Otherwise, please consider being
+a server, to help out the network. (Currently each server uses 20-150
+gigabytes of traffic per month, depending on its capacity and its rate
+limiting configuration.)</p>
 
 
 <p>Note that you can be a server without allowing users to make
 <p>Note that you can be a server without allowing users to make
 connections from your computer to the outside world. This is called being
 connections from your computer to the outside world. This is called being
@@ -114,8 +115,9 @@ a middleman server.</p>
 
 
 <p> Benefits of running a server include:
 <p> Benefits of running a server include:
 <ul>
 <ul>
-<li>Clients are generally limited to 100KB/s, whereas servers can inject
-or receive as much traffic as they want.
+<li>Clients are generally limited to 100KB/s (and in practice, sometimes
+much less), whereas servers can inject or receive as much traffic as
+they want.
 <li>You may get stronger anonymity, since your destination can't know
 <li>You may get stronger anonymity, since your destination can't know
 whether connections relayed through your computer originated at your
 whether connections relayed through your computer originated at your
 computer or not.
 computer or not.
@@ -219,12 +221,13 @@ service url</a>).</p>
 <h2>Configuring a server</h2>
 <h2>Configuring a server</h2>
 
 
 <p>We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections,
 <p>We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections,
-that have at least 1Mbit each way. Currently we don't use all of that,
-but we want it available for burst traffic.</p>
+that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you have more bandwidth
+to offer, that's even better.</p>
 
 
 <p>To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor.
 <p>To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor.
-(These instructions are Unix-centric; let us know if you get it working
-on Windows.)
+(These instructions are Unix-centric; if you're excited about working
+with us to get a Tor server working on Windows, let us know and we'll
+work with you to fix whatever bugs come up.)
 </p>
 </p>
 
 
 <ul>
 <ul>