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Doesn't that saturate Tor? Bittorrent via Tor was always highly discouraged to not overload the network with all the p2p traffic and IPFS is a very similar tech
by 8t88t8tttt8 4y ago
Doesn't that saturate Tor? Bittorrent via Tor was always highly discouraged to not overload the network with all the p2p traffic and IPFS is a very similar technique.
- staringback 4y ago> Doesn't that saturate Tor? No, that's a stupid myth that needs to die. The tor network is nowhere near the advertised bandwidth capacity: https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html
- 8t88t8tttt8 4y agohttps://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-4/ https://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-4/ links to TODO which says "We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;" and links to a dead page "Why Tor is slow". I googled that and found https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Why_is_Tor_slow#Misuse_of_the_Tor_Network https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Why_is_Tor_slow#Misuse_of_the_To... and https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/slow/index.en.html https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/slow/index... which sound like they were both sourced from that defunct page. So, if you call it a stupid myth, please provide some credible proof. The Tor developers as well as the maintainers of two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you.
- staringback 4y ago> We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;" 12 year old blog post. Both the tor network and internet as a whole are completely different. > two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you Both of those pages have a citation that says "it is bad.... just cause it is okay!" The credible evidence is in my original comment, that shows hundreds of gigabits being underutilized on the network.