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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:30:46 +0100 |
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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I am trying to find out if the pedestrian download speeds that I have |
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> been getting over the last couple of months when using tor and |
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> privoxy are related to my UK ISP DSLMax throttling, or if it is |
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> something you have observed too. |
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> Tor was usually slower than direct browsing, but the last few times I |
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> have tried using I can hardly get more than say 1.5kbps. |
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> Is there a way of troubleshooting this to see where the throttling |
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> occurs? |
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Although having never actually used Tor myself, i would say no, and by |
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design. |
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Tor is not like some central service which one party provides that |
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could "throttle their servers", but a chain of (private) gateways which |
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forward the encrypted data to one another. |
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The idea behing the whole thing is, that every gateway only knows of |
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its direct neighbors, so noone is able to reconstruct the whole chain |
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(to achieve anonymity). |
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Threrefore, i guess, it is not possible to troubleshoot the bottleneck |
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of such a chain. |
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Cheers, |
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