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Tor is slow because every packet has to be routed through several random servers distributed all over the world with multiple layers of crypto at every pass. Ev
by openasocket 8y ago
Tor is slow because every packet has to be routed through several random servers distributed all over the world with multiple layers of crypto at every pass. Even with plenty of top-of-the-line inner and exit nodes you will still see substantially more latency than just sending packets directly.
- astrodust 8y agoThat wouldn't be as big an issue if all the nodes were very well connected, like positioned near big peering points, but they're not.
- seandougall 8y agoThe "distributed all over the world" part would still be just as much of an issue; the speed of light puts a substantial lower bound on the total latency.
- astrodust 8y agoTrue, but pinging from one hub to another is way faster than someone's cable modem in Mumbai to someone's in Australia to someone's in Peru and back again. Those last miles add up in a huge way.
- pathseeker 8y agoNo, IPSec tunnels to remote headquarters have indistinguishable latency impacts for normal users browsing (<150ms). The bad latency is because of congestion, not crypto and multiple hops.
- mirimir 8y agoMirimir typically uses a three-VPN nested chain. Just now, rtt to google.com was ~260 msec. That's four hops. Just not with servers on the far side of the planet.