Tor speed

[slush]

One more comment. I blocked everything expect 80 and 443 for two reasons -
firstly, I had DMCA notifications (torrents) and I have not energy and time
to solve this. Second is, that "something else 80/443" overloaded my node
for the most of time. I like supporting anonymity and free access to
information, but I preffer access to WWW (with the best speed possible) than
supporting torrents.

Because I was surprised, how much throughput takes all these torrents and
non-WWW data, I tried run torrent over Tor for a while. I was much bigger
surprised, how hell fast it is! Is it the next evidence, that Tor have bad
QoS on connections?

Main differences between torrent stream and casual WWW is, that torrent
stream is built once, request data one and lives for long time. WWW (and
also SSH and others interactive stuff) is much more about multiple
request/reasons. I think that preferring short-live streams (or generally
young streams) in dividing node throughtput will do miracles! I think
currently is Tor doing the right oposite...

Marek

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM, slush <slush at slush.cz> wrote:

> I know that latency is the real reason of user experience. But my speed
> tests were averages for longer time and many requests. When I have faster
> connection, but it feels much slower.
>
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