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lower the bandwidth requirements from 1MBit to 20KBytes

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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
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
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:
<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
whether connections relayed through your computer originated at your
computer or not.
@ -219,12 +221,13 @@ service url</a>).</p>
<h2>Configuring a server</h2>
<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.
(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>
<ul>