[tor-talk] Performance of Tor networks degrades

[Griffin Boyce]

tor-admin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the metrics page shows that the performance of the Tor network degraded during 
> the last 7 days from around 1.5 sec per 50kb towards 2 secs to complete a 50kb 
> request:
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html?graph=torperf&start=2013-02-18&end=2014-02-16&source=all&filesize=50kb#torperf
>
> Does anyone has a explanation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Torland

  I'm not entirely sure what's causing that sudden dip, though yesterday
I ran a quick speed test and was getting 645 kb/s while downloading a
fairly large file.

~Griffin