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Re: [tor-talk] Can the Hidden Service ever be FAST?



On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Nathan Suchy
<theusernameiwantistaken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 400MS + network delays. In the end your connection ping will be around
> 1000MS.
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Arian Sanusi <arian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> both the client and the hidden service establish a three hop circuit to
>> the same tor relay, where the connections are joint, so hidden services
>> will have even double the delay of normal tor traffic. If relays were
>> homogeneous distributed among the globe, two random relays will be 1/4
>> earth circumference apart on average. This means that a round trip will
>> have a speed of light delay of 12 hops * 10 000km each / 300 000 km/s speed
>> of light. That's 400ms from finite speed of light. Switches, routers and
>> relays along the way will add to that.

A typical long observation is < 1000ms avg, < 600ms stddev, 0% loss.

>> Bandwidth is something
>> else, there are no in-principle boundaries.

This has always been usable if you can wait a while.
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