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by intopieces 2792 days ago
Is Tor still super slow?
4 comments
megous 2792 days ago
Slower, 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
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GordonS 2792 days ago
If 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.
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IngoBlechschmid 2792 days ago
It isn't for me. Nowadays I never not surf using Tor. Even video platforms work without any bothersome delay.
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anigbrowl 2792 days ago
No, it's pretty decent now
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