From: Darren Griffith <madphilosopher@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Tor limitation Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:52:07 +0800
> Many of the Chinese who are using tor are complaining that it is too > slow to be usable by them. I imagine that those who feel they need to > use this program don't mind it being at about dial-up speeds.
I'm in Beijing and I'm happy that Tor is there when I need it. In fact, en.wikipedia.org is now blocked by my ISP, so Tor is almost essential. But yes, it's pretty slow, though I'm patient. Only lately, I'm consistently getting DNS lookup failures, and that's what's mostly eroding my experience of using Tor all the time. (I know I should change the config of my client to give more logging info so I can track down this bad exit node, but I haven't made the effort yet.)
-- Darren Paul Griffith www.madphilosopher.ca