Re: [gentoo-user] tor servers being throttled?

[Patric Schmitz <bzk0711@aim.com>]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:30:46 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to find out if the pedestrian download speeds that I have
> been getting over the last couple of months when using tor and
> privoxy are related to my UK ISP DSLMax throttling, or if it is
> something you have observed too.
> 
> Tor was usually slower than direct browsing, but the last few times I
> have tried using I can hardly get more than say 1.5kbps.
> 
> Is there a way of troubleshooting this to see where the throttling
> occurs?

Although having never actually used Tor myself, i would say no, and by
design. 
Tor is not like some central service which one party provides that
could "throttle their servers", but a chain of (private) gateways which
forward the encrypted data to one another.
The idea behing the whole thing is, that every gateway only knows of
its direct neighbors, so noone is able to reconstruct the whole chain
(to achieve anonymity).
Threrefore, i guess, it is not possible to troubleshoot the bottleneck
of such a chain.

Cheers,
Patric