[tor-relays] Help the Tor Project by running a fast unpublished bridge

[Philipp Winter]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:51:03AM +0800, Lorenz Kirchner wrote:
>> Yes, assuming the users would not give up out of frustration before :-) We
>> can
>> actually do the math: According to [0], at the moment the Tor network has
>> an
>> advertised bandwidth of 3000 MiB/s. Let's assume that all Chinese relays
>> would
>> account for 30 MiB/s. Even then, the probability of a Chinese relay being
>> selected as first hop is only 30/3000 = 0.01 = 1%!
>
> How long does it take to make 100 circuit attempts?

That would depend on when your OS thinks, a TCP connection timed out. It could
be quite a while if you count several seconds for each connection attempt.

Philipp