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 <h1>Join the Tor Network</h1>

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 <p>We created a video with <a
 href="https://www.tacticaltech.org/">Tactical

 Tech</a> to help understand why being a relay matters (<a

 href="https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-03-04-BuildingBridges-HD-english.ogv">HD

 version</a>). It is translated into <a

 href="https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-03-04-BuildingBridges-HD-arabic.ogv">Arabic</a>,
 <a
 href="https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-03-04-BuildingBridges-HD-farsi.ogv">Farsi</a>,
 <a
 href="https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-03-04-BuildingBridges-HD-german.ogv">German</a>,
 <a
 href="https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-03-04-BuildingBridges-HD-mandarin.ogv">Mandarin
 Chinese</a>, and <a
 href="https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-03-04-BuildingBridges-HD-spanish.ogv">Spanish</a></p>

 <p>The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more

 people who run Tor as a relay or a bridge, the faster and safer the

 network becomes.</p>

 <h1>Three ways to join and help out</h1>

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 <ul class="hlist">
 <li><a href="#diy">Run it yourself.</a></li>
 <li><a href="#cloud">Run it in the cloud.</a></li>

 <li class="last"><a href="#donate">Donate to others to run it for
 you.</a></li>

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 <h2>Run it yourself</h2>

 <p>You can run Tor as either a relay or a bridge. A bridge will usually

 see less traffic than a relay, and will only be the first hop in the
 three hop circuit. </p>
 

 <h3>Microsoft Windows</h3>

 <ul>

 <li>Be a Bridge: <a
 href="<package-win32-bridge-bundle-stable>">package</a>, <a
 href="<package-win32-bridge-bundle-stable>.asc">signature</a></li>
 <li>Be a Relay: <a href="<package-win32-relay-bundle-stable>">package</a>,
 <a href="<package-win32-relay-bundle-stable>.asc">signature</a></li>
 <li>Be an Exit Relay: <a
 href="<package-win32-exit-bundle-stable>">package</a>, <a
 href="<package-win32-exit-bundle-stable>.asc">signature</a></li>

 </ul>

 <p>Read the instructions on how to configure a <a href="<page
 docs/bridges>#RunningABridge">bridge</a> or a <a href="<page
 docs/tor-doc-relay>#setup">relay</a>.</p>

 
 <h3>Mac OS X</h3>
 <ul>

 <li>Be a Bridge (Intel Macs): <a
 href="<package-osx-x86-bundle-stable>">package</a>, <a
 href="<package-osx-x86-bundle-stable>.asc">signature</a></li>
 <li>Be a Bridge (PowerPC Macs ): <a
 href="<package-osx-ppc-bundle-stable>">package</a>, <a
 href="<package-osx-ppc-bundle-stable>.asc">signature</a></li>

 </ul>

 <p>Read the instructions on how to configure a <a href="<page
 docs/bridges>#RunningABridge">bridge</a> or a <a href="<page
 docs/tor-doc-relay>#setup">relay</a>.</p>

 <h3>Unix, Linux, BSD, and everything else</h3>

 <p>Read the instructions on how to configure a
 <a href="<page docs/tor-relay-debian>">relay</a>
 or a <a href="<page docs/bridges>#RunningABridge">bridge</a>.</p>

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 <h2>Use the cloud</h2>

 <p>The <a href="https://cloud.torproject.org/">Tor Cloud</a> project

 runs on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. This gives you a
 user-friendly way of deploying bridges to help users access an uncensored
 Internet. Setting up a Tor bridge on Amazon EC2 is cheap, simple, and
 will only take you a couple of minutes.</p>

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 <h2>Donate to others to run for you</h2>

 <p><a href="https://www.torservers.net/">Torservers</a>, <a
 href="http://noisetor.net/">Noisetor</a>, and <a href="https://nos-oignons.net">Nos Oignons</a> will turn your donation into Tor

 exit relays.</p>

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