Hello fellow TCP users.
I am currently having a lot of unused bandwidth. I wonder do you have any suggestion what to do with that bandwidth ?. Ideally it should more or less only relay the traffic because unfortunately I don’t have much idle RAM left (something like a Tor-relay node but least risky).
Thank you very much!
Edit: If you have any not so heavy torrent (<250GiB) that could be helpful please suggest as well
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Why not a tor relay? If you’re not an exit it is pretty darn safe. How about a tor snowflake proxy too? Even easier and safer.
What do you mean unused bandwidth? Is that not the normal? Most of the time I’m not using my bandwidth so I guess I have lots of unused bandwidth too.
A Syncthing relay, very simple to set up, I always install it when I have no need for a VPS but it’s paid for until the end of the month
I’ve not looked into it much yet, but https://radicle.xyz/ seems interesting.
It’s kinda a bittorrent-powerd codeberg and it looks like it’s worth playing around with (even though it might not get you rid of much bandwidth… IDK how popular it is, but source usually doesn’t weigh that much).
Linux installer ISO images. Perfectly legal, and very helpful.
A very good idea indeed. Do you mean via torrent or is there any way to host it ?
I had torrents in mind. You could host them directly I suppose, but discoverability would be an issue.
Discoverability is one issue and trust for longevity is another. No bigger distribution is going to rely their official download links on an individual home lab which can disappear overnight. Also I guess there’s also guestion if images are provided as is without adding/removing your own ‘extensions’, but that’s what cheksums are for.
And this is obviously on a general level, I’m not trying to suggest that xana is not trustworthy :) But torrent seeding is a helpful thing for community, and easy/safe to set up.
No worry you can not trust a random guy on the internet in general. But one issue I see with torrent is I will have to update the torrent manually everytime a new version comes out. I wonder if you know any automatic solution for that ?
I’d guess there’s some tools which rely on RSS feeds or something to update seeds automatically, but that’s just a gut feeling. Also it shouldn’t be too difficult to write your own, but I don’t know if anything ‘production ready’ is out there.
thank you!
Look in to I2P.
You could consider peertube, although I am not terribly familiar with the hardware load
My snowflake-proxy docker container eats 81-95mb RAM atm.
I am curious how much bandwidth it comsumes a month ? And do you have any legal implication for doing that ?
it logs out stats ever 6h. The last on my VPS were: 2,7 Gb IN and 120,5 Mb OUT. So in 30 Days it would be around 243 Gb IN and 10 Gb OUT Traffic.
And do you have any legal implication for doing that ?
i run it since years on two Hetzner VPS in Falkenstein, Germany and didn’t get any compains.
The security concerns for the Snowflake proxy operator are minimal. The Snowflake client will not be able to interact with your computer in any way or observe your network traffic, and you will not be able to see their traffic. From the perspective of your ISP it will look like you are connecting to a Tor bridge, which if you are running a Snowflake proxy should be legal and unrestricted in your country. There is no more risk running a Snowflake proxy than running Tor browser.
Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship
There’s nothing illegal about using Tor, which was developed and published by the US Navy and supported by the US State Department. Like other users have said, this is not an exit node which is the only type of node that I would be concerned about running.
Definitely look into I2P which, in a nutshell, is a peer-to-peer version of Tor. Hosting an I2P router comes with no legal risk, too. Hosting an I2P outproxy would be similar to hosting a Tor exit node, so be aware of that.
Snowflake is an entrypoint into the tor network, not an exit point. I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think there are any legal implications, or maybe in Russia or Iran. And the whole point is that its traffic is very hard to identify.
I2P outproxy or seeding torrents
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