1 Mb d/l on startup.. can this be avoided?

[Anil verve]

Thanks.

Would like to help if possible. Am a student and could take up a project in
my free time during the next semester.

Regards

On 8/5/06, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:53:53AM +0530, Anil verve wrote:
> > Upon startup Tor downloads around 1 mb of stuff.. which I suspect is the
> > network/circuit information. My ISP limit per day is around 12 Mb
> traffic
> > up/down a day and I normally boot up my box 3-4 times a day. Ans i get
> this
> > 1 mb overhead everytime.
> >
> > What is contained in this 1 Mb of traffic?
> > Is there anyway to stop/reduce this startup traffic?
> > Can i not reuse what was downloaded only a few hours back?
>
> You're right -- Tor doesn't work well currently for people on modems and
> people with extreme bandwidth constraints. That's on our todo list too,
> and we hope to get to it within the next year -- feel free to help. :)
>
> http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/dir-spec.txt
>
> --Roger
>
>
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