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Is Tor still super slow?
by intopieces 8y ago
Is Tor still super slow?
- IngoBlechschmid 8y agoIt isn't for me. Nowadays I never not surf using Tor. Even video platforms work without any bothersome delay.
- anigbrowl 8y agoNo, it's pretty decent now
- megous 8y agoSlower, but not super slow. Latency is significantly higher, if you're used to ~10ms ping from your home to your data center. Grabbing a page from my website over tor and over normal network: curl http://mywebsite curl https://mywebsite curl --proxy socks://127.0.0.1:9050 http://mywebsite curl --proxy socks://127.0.0.1:9050 https://mywebsite Results in these times (tor times depend on selected circuit): 0.028s / http 0.063s / https 0.394s / tor http 1.079s / tor https If I killall -HUP tor (force changes circuit): 0.302s / tor http 0.598s / tor https
- GordonS 8y agoIf you last tried it several years ago, you will be pleasantly surprised with how fast it is now (I was). It used to be practically unusable, but most of the time I now don't notice any slowdown at all for normal browsing.