Ping times with Tor running

[Udo van den Heuvel]

On 2009-06-27 17:58, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> While Tor is running, incoming and outgoing pings to the nearest hop 
>> goes from ~15ms to ~300+ms.  This is very obvious when browsing.
> 
> 1000KB is 8 megabit. 2000KB is 16 megabit.
> 
> Tor counts in units of '1' rather than units of '1/8' :)
> 
> Whereas your cable provider counts in units that produce large
> impressive-sounding numbers.
> 
> See also
> https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#DoesBandwidthRateReallyWork

Also:

Does your line really give you 22 mbit/s?
How fast did that (ADSL?) modem really sync?
What protocols are on the line and what is their overhead?