Hey thanks a lot Mike! On 09/20/2015 02:43 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > B: >> If you're connection is really slow you can exit out of the TBB and then >> reopen Tor. Doing this will establish a new relay when it loads while >> potentially establishing a faster relay. > Restarting TBB is equivalent to the Tor onion menu option "New > Identity". On a per-site basis, it is also equivalent to "New Tor > Circuit for this site". > > The main performance pain point for Tor these days is that some Guard > nodes (the entry into the Tor network) are overloaded. > > Unfortunately, because we both reduced the number of guard nodes from 3 > to 1 and also simultaneously increased the Guard lifetime from 1 to 3 > months, this problem has gotten much much worse. This means that some > people who install TBB chose a slow guard node, and are stuck with it > for months. > > The only way to fix it is to remove your tor state file (in > ./Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/state on Linux), or reinstall a fresh TBB. > > If you pick a fast guard, the experience overall will be much better. > > You can also try to specify a Tor bridge from > https://bridges.torproject.org/, even if you are not a censored user. In > many cases, these bridges will be faster than our overloaded guard > nodes, since almost no one is able to successfully configure and use > bridges these days (unfortunately, censorship circumvention maintenance > and usability is not a priority for our current sponsors, but this does > have some benefits for those precious few who can figure it out). > > >
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