Tor network speed

[Andrew Henry]

Roger Dingledine wrote:

>Actually, it's quite possible that at various times various Tor servers
>are saturated -- especially the ones in the lower bandwidth ranges, since
>they're presumably used for other stuff as well and they don't have much
>capacity to go around.
>
>Weasel's bandwidth graph (http://www.noreply.org/tor-running-routers/)
>indicates that we're pushing over 100 mbits/s average sustained throughput
>over the Tor network, with bursts in the 200-300 mbit/s range.
>
>The Tor software itself has been observed to push 10mbit/s on a given
>node, and probably could do more if pressed. So the increased latency
>(and decreased throughput) you're seeing is due to the servers your
>circuit happened to pick.
>
>
>Alas, as we try to scale the network to make it more robust and more
>secure against various adversaries, we're going to start accepting
>more and more slow nodes. This is inevitable, especially if we want
>to avoid being such a juicy target for the Bittorrent folks -- see
>http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2004/msg00052.html
>[...]
>
>Hope that helps,
>--Roger
>
>
Thanks for the detailed reply--it *was* helpful.

--
Andrew

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