Thanks.<br><br>Would like to help if possible. Am a student and could take up a project in my free time during the next semester.<br><br>Regards<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Roger Dingledine</b> <<a href="mailto:arma@mit.edu">arma@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:53:53AM +0530, Anil verve wrote:
<br>> Upon startup Tor downloads around 1 mb of stuff.. which I suspect is the<br>> network/circuit information. My ISP limit per day is around 12 Mb traffic<br>> up/down a day and I normally boot up my box 3-4 times a day. Ans i get this
<br>> 1 mb overhead everytime.<br>><br>> What is contained in this 1 Mb of traffic?<br>> Is there anyway to stop/reduce this startup traffic?<br>> Can i not reuse what was downloaded only a few hours back?<br>
<br>You're right -- Tor doesn't work well currently for people on modems and<br>people with extreme bandwidth constraints. That's on our todo list too,<br>and we hope to get to it within the next year -- feel free to help. :)
<br><br><a href="http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/dir-spec.txt">http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/dir-spec.txt</a><br><br>--Roger<br><br></blockquote></div><br>