Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-18 Thread Lunar
Martin S: > Considering the responses in this thread, I am now testing the Tor BB. > However the startup time for this is monstruous. Running through the > initial setup routine, the thing just seems to hang on connecting to > Tor network. What could be wrong? Please contact the Tor help desk: . I

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-18 Thread Martin S
Considering the responses in this thread, I am now testing the Tor BB. However the startup time for this is monstruous. Running through the initial setup routine, the thing just seems to hang on connecting to Tor network. What could be wrong? 2014-08-16 15:23 GMT+02:00 Fabian Keil : > Roger Dingle

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:18:23PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > The Privoxy part of the chain could be an issue. What is your > > reason for using Privoxy? > > In general, I find Tor to be faster overall, since overhauls in > > TorBrowser - when they stopped using Priv

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-14 Thread Martin S
The above may also relate to our partners, which definately shouldn't access our office through VPN. 2014-08-14 20:07 GMT+02:00 Martin S : > I am planning to use it as a proxy with services for the offices. Not > as a VPN to our own office. > > The thing is that the offices almost totally lack any

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-14 Thread Martin S
I am planning to use it as a proxy with services for the offices. Not as a VPN to our own office. The thing is that the offices almost totally lack any local IT resources and expertise. They are also situated in countries, or work with countries that are Democracy and/or Human Rights challenged, o

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-14 Thread Soul Plane
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Martin S wrote: > I've set up a Tor and Privoxy chain for our organisation, especially > for our courntry offices, of which some work in high risk countries. > Pardon me asking this maybe it's obvious but why wouldn't you use an intranet VPN instead of Tor for yo

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-14 Thread Martin S
Apart from the quoted docs, I was more thinking a detailed how-to/why-for kindof thing. /Martin S 2014-08-13 23:05 GMT+02:00 Roger Dingledine : > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:18:23PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: >> The Privoxy part of the chain could be an issue. What is your >> reason for using Priv

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-14 Thread Martin S
2014-08-13 23:05 GMT+02:00 Roger Dingledine : > I guess the broader question is what the original poster was trying > to do -- if the goal is to give Tor's protection to everybody in the > organization, and the way they did it was to leave everybody using > Internet Explorer, and then redirect out

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:18:23PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > The Privoxy part of the chain could be an issue. What is your > reason for using Privoxy? > In general, I find Tor to be faster overall, since overhauls in > TorBrowser - when they stopped using Privoxy (& likely started other > speed

Re: [tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-13 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 8/13/2014 2:20 PM, Martin S wrote: I've set up a Tor and Privoxy chain for our organisation, especially for our courntry offices, of which some work in high risk countries. After some brief tests I notice performance issues (it's somewhat slow opening new pages). is there any suggestions for p

[tor-talk] Performance

2014-08-13 Thread Martin S
I've set up a Tor and Privoxy chain for our organisation, especially for our courntry offices, of which some work in high risk countries. After some brief tests I notice performance issues (it's somewhat slow opening new pages). is there any suggestions for performance improvements that is generall

Re: [tor-talk] Performance of Tor networks degrades

2014-02-17 Thread Rick
On 02/16/2014 05:25 AM, tor-admin wrote: Hi, the metrics page shows that the performance of the Tor network degraded during the last 7 days from around 1.5 sec per 50kb towards 2 secs to complete a 50kb request: https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html?graph=torperf&start=2013-02-18&end=

Re: [tor-talk] Performance of Tor networks degrades

2014-02-17 Thread Griffin Boyce
tor-admin wrote: > Hi, > > the metrics page shows that the performance of the Tor network degraded > during > the last 7 days from around 1.5 sec per 50kb towards 2 secs to complete a > 50kb > request: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html?graph=torperf&start=2013-02-18&end=2014-0

[tor-talk] Performance of Tor networks degrades

2014-02-16 Thread tor-admin
Hi, the metrics page shows that the performance of the Tor network degraded during the last 7 days from around 1.5 sec per 50kb towards 2 secs to complete a 50kb request: https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html?graph=torperf&start=2013-02-18&end=2014-02-16&source=all&filesize=50kb#torpe

[tor-talk] Performance (Was: Re: Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha is out)

2012-04-25 Thread Tor Operator
Hello, On Apr 23, 2012, at 9:38 , Roger Dingledine wrote: > o Major features (performance): > - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64 > instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or > vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can