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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by teddyh on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:18AM (#6300625)
I suggest you try it again. It's not nearly as slow now as it once was.
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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by cLeEOGPw on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:47AM (#6301669)
Just tried it. Nothing has changed. Browsing with TOR is ~30 times slower than normal browsing. It means it takes 2-3 seconds to load google.com, and 30s-1min to load my local news page, 15min.lt. I don't know who downvoted me for stating this fact, but he either doesn't use TOR or the nodes are near his physical location.
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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by teddyh on Saturday August 31, 2013 @08:02PM (#6308567)
Occasionally you get a slow path. If this happens and you're in a hurry, just press the "New Identity" button to get a new random path. It usually works.
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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by girvo on Friday August 30, 2013 @06:37AM (#6301041)
Funnily, last time I used it it was so quick I didn't think it was working!
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