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!) T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------