How to put unused BW to use

Galeej

Bf 2023 had good amount of deals that included huge BW. Now, I do not use that much BW anyways. How do I put these to use or what do you guys do with enormous Bw.

MannDude

Run a Tor relay or exit, I2P router, etc.

kenjing789

How about make the world better
https://ehwiki.org/wiki/Hentai@Home

Galeej

@MannDude said:
Run a Tor relay or exit, I2P router, etc.

Thanks more examples pls.

HostEONS

@Galeej said:
Bf 2023 had good amount of deals that included huge BW. Now, I do not use that much BW anyways. How do I put these to use or what do you guys do with enormous Bw.

Download PORN ?

totally_not_banned

Mirror your local weather forecast 1,000,000 times per day.

shruub

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit ig

1q1

idling

remy

@MannDude said:
Run a Tor relay or exit, I2P router, etc.

Isn't it a bit risky to set up a TOR exit node?
Depending on the country, the host... not sure it's a good idea to recommend this.
Unless that was just irony

1q1

if we got many LET users having idle BW to spare, starting VPN service which pay portion of the profits based on BW supplied might be a good idea

1q1

@1q1 said: if we got many LET users having idle BW to spare, starting VPN service which pay portion of the profits based on BW supplied might be a good idea

@Not_Oles or maybe freeVPN after freeVPS?

1q1

--- double post

shruub

@remy said:

@MannDude said:
Run a Tor relay or exit, I2P router, etc.

Isn't it a bit risky to set up a TOR exit node?
Depending on the country, the host... not sure it's a good idea to recommend this.
Unless that was just irony

exit, yeah. Most western countries have some sort of proxy-allowing (which this falls under) law (idk bout the others), but most hosts hate it since it's a lot of traffic, creates really bad IP rep and feds don't understand the law.

tentor

@shruub said: most hosts hate it since it's a lot of traffic

Those are "fair-use" a.k.a. "no up/down" providers?

marcopolio

host a syncthing relay

remy

@tentor said:

@shruub said: most hosts hate it since it's a lot of traffic

Those are "fair-use" a.k.a. "no up/down" providers?

I totally agree, it's rarely a good sign when hosts don't specify a bandwidth limit.
Lifetime offer / Unlimited bandwidth for 5$ ... Suspect

That said, legislation on TOR relays / exit seems unclear in Europe.
What I see is that the big European providers don't seem to allow it (Hetzner / OVH / Scaleway). At least not on VPS.

tentor

@remy said: What I see is that the big European provider don't seem to allow it (Hetzner / OVH / Scaleway). At least not on VPS.

I am not sure regarding legality, but generally providers dislike lots of abuse complaints.

remy

@tentor said:

@remy said: What I see is that the big European provider don't seem to allow it (Hetzner / OVH / Scaleway). At least not on VPS.

I am not sure regarding legality, but generally providers dislike lots of abuse complaints.

Yes, it makes sense.
Although many services ban the entire tor exit IPs list outright because it causes too many problems. And I can understand that.

shruub

@tentor said:

@shruub said: most hosts hate it since it's a lot of traffic

Those are "fair-use" a.k.a. "no up/down" providers?

Lifetime vps with unlimited 10gig network (dedicated) for 20$ anyone?

shruub

@remy said:

@tentor said:

@shruub said: most hosts hate it since it's a lot of traffic

Those are "fair-use" a.k.a. "no up/down" providers?

I totally agree, it's rarely a good sign when hosts don't specify a bandwidth limit.
Lifetime offer / Unlimited bandwidth for 5$ ... Suspect

That said, legislation on TOR relays / exit seems unclear in Europe.
What I see is that the big European providers don't seem to allow it (Hetzner / OVH / Scaleway). At least not on VPS.

I'm pretty sure that Hetzner is one of the biggests isps in the tor network

Edit: it's legal though. But you know, not everyone likes their datacenters being raided due to some guy abusing tor.

Benehmen

@kenjing789 said:
How about make the world better
https://ehwiki.org/wiki/Hentai@Home

By eradicating porn addicts? That would be good, sadly there is nothing about it on this page.

Benehmen

@remy said:

@MannDude said:
Run a Tor relay or exit, I2P router, etc.

Isn't it a bit risky to set up a TOR exit node?
Depending on the country, the host... not sure it's a good idea to recommend this.
Unless that was just irony

Any "democratic" country will work, just make sure with the host and you are good.
Feds never contact you really, abuse reports are rare and mostly about some bullshit reasons like dmca from people torrenting or port scan/brute.
I personally only block mail ports on mine so they aren't used for spamming, and its fine.

@shruub said: I'm pretty sure that Hetzner is one of the biggests isps in the tor network

Relays, yeah. Same for OVH.
For exit both of them can be realistically used, some do that, but its a gamble. Not something I would recommend.

uekix

Just accept your life is boring as mine.

I have unlimited 1Gbps fibre, unlimited 5G mobile data, and gaming PC. But yet here I am, only use around 50GB data of Internet every month, and dont even play games.

CheepCluck

@uekix said:
Just accept your life is boring as mine.

I have unlimited 1Gbps fibre, unlimited 5G mobile data, and gaming PC. But yet here I am, only use around 50GB data of Internet every month, and dont even play games.

I like you. I use a 1kW lamp to heat up my apartment but i run my AC off my neighbors power at the same time.

dedicados

@uekix said:
Just accept your life is boring as mine.

I have unlimited 1Gbps fibre, unlimited 5G mobile data, and gaming PC. But yet here I am, only use around 50GB data of Internet every month, and dont even play games.

Start playing games. There are a lot of porn to download

Void

@uekix said:
Just accept your life is boring as mine.

I have unlimited 1Gbps fibre, unlimited 5G mobile data, and gaming PC. But yet here I am, only use around 50GB data of Internet every month, and dont even play games.

Join some private trackers and contribute

rasping5978

Setting up free VPN server for your family and friends?

Smith42

Providers often oversell bandwidth and traffic to attract customers, that does not mean they'd be happy with you using 100% of it 24/7. This includes VPS, Server and even residential ISPs, that will sell and assign customers more bandwidth than they can guarantee 24/7.

Take for example Hetzner, they sell 1Gbit unmetered for as low as $30/month but if everyone figured out a way to make money from unused bandwidth and started maxing out 24/7, their shit would have a meltdown (happened during the Chia craze).

Aside from that yes, there are plenty of ways to make money from unused bandwidth if you're willing to get in the crypto space, but I wouldn't talk about that here.

alt_

Try traffmonetizer or repocket.
Decent income (~$0.02 per vps per day) to me. You can take a try if you have lots of idle vps's.

rm_

@Smith42 said: Providers often oversell bandwidth and traffic to attract customers, that does not mean they'd be happy with you using 100% of it 24/7. This includes VPS, Server and even residential ISPs, that will sell and assign customers more bandwidth than they can guarantee 24/7.

This does include residential ISPs very much, likely includes VPS, but applies somewhat less to dedicated servers. In this order, the bandwidth that you get is varying from "fair use only" to "24/7 use is no problem". And dedi providers usually know better to specify the actual limits if they have any (such as 20 TB outgoing/mo, and you get capped).

sillycat

@alt_ said: $0.02

A grand total of $7.3 a year! That is the cost of a whole Big Mac at McDonald's!