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Re: Function of Tor



On Friday 01 September 2006 12:36, German Erlenkamp wrote:
> Hy everybody.
>
> I hope that I'm on the right list to post my questions. :)
> I've installed Tor on my Linux system and I see, that there is a
> tor-daemon running (/usr/bin/tor).
> My questions are: a) If I'm browsing the web, Do I use the Tor-System,
> and how could I test this?
> IIRC the download speed should be much slower if I use Tor, but it
> seems, that I got the max. speed.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> CU
>
> German

No, it's probably not done automatically by your distro which means you have 
to explicitly configure you clients (browser, irc, ...) to use Tor.

You should have a look at
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO

Bernhard

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