(July 9, 2019 at 7:33 am)Jehanne Wrote:So what if Tor changes circuits every ten minutes? Once your relay goes down, chances are, tens if not hundreds of circuits are unexpectedly broken.(July 9, 2019 at 3:19 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Volunteering to Tor with a computer you work on, and which you have to restart every now and then, is probably doing more harm than good (making connections break). Plus, the Internet connection on the Croatian CrisisConnection ISP, though they say it's 8 mbps, often drops below 1 mbps, and breaks for at least an hour almost every day (I then use the cellular network).
Plus, I am not really sure volunteering a obfs4 bridge helps people in China, Turkey or Iran, since the vast majority of Tor users there use "meek".
Just create a task in Task Scheduler to auto-start it; also, any bridge is a helpful bridge, as Tor is a global network. Check out the Tor FAQ; as long as your relay is up for at least an hour at a time, it's helpful, as the Tor Browser automatically changes circuits every 10 minutes anyway.
And the Tor FAQ says it's OK if a relay goes offline sometimes, but that it's important it doesn't happen too often, since a relay that goes down too often is hurting the network, rather than helping it.