From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKrVv-0007z6-Ss for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:17:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F207E00F2; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EED6E00F2 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bzk0711@aim.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.4.) id 5.bfc.3d64a4ab (34942) for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:16:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vrpc02.rz.rwth-aachen.de (vrpc02.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.70.71]) by cia-da05.mx.aol.com (v121.5) with ESMTP id MAILCIADA053-887e488454081f; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:16:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:17:34 +0200 From: Patric Schmitz To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tor servers being throttled? Message-ID: <20080721111734.19273fb0@vrpc02.rz.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <200807201930.57441.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200807201930.57441.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 134.130.70.71 X-Spam-Flag:NO X-Archives-Salt: 49a80942-3e6c-401d-996c-497952b51af0 X-Archives-Hash: 3d38ce2a7c8a7f90ce19f1961728520f On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:30:46 +0100 Mick 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