On 8 Dec. 2016, at 22:08, Sec INT sec.int9@gmail.com wrote:
US just has alot of people trying to exit there - so its always busy
Tor clients choose exits at random, based on the ports the exit allows. They *do not* try to find an exit close to the site they are going to.
- I find Tor follows the money mostly - high concentration in W.Europe and US but drops sharply anywhere else -
All the tor bandwidth-measuring authorities are also located in either Western Europe or the US. Relays closer to a bandwidth authority (lower network latency) are measured faster than those further away.
This is a side-effect of measuring the delay in transmission inside the relay itself.
On 9 Dec. 2016, at 06:23, Duncan Guthrie dguthrie@posteo.net wrote:
Thus, running relays in Africa and Asia should be a priority right now.
To make this work well, we would need bandwidth authorities in Africa and Asia. Otherwise, those relays won't be used much.
(We're working on it - I hope!)
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