[tor-talk] Can the Hidden Service ever be FAST?

[Nathan Suchy]

Sorry it just can't. Maybe a private tor hidden service would be better
where you ran the entire tor network but that would ruin the anonymity.
400MS + network delays. In the end your connection ping will be around
1000MS.


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Arian Sanusi <arian at sanusi.de> wrote:

> Hi Jerzy,
>
> both the client and the hidden service establish a three hop circuit to
> the same tor relay, where the connections are joint, so hidden services
> will have even double the delay of normal tor traffic. If relays were
> homogeneous distributed among the globe, two random relays will be 1/4
> earth circumference apart on average. This means that a round trip will
> have a speed of light delay of 12 hops * 10 000km each / 300 000 km/s speed
> of light. That's 400ms from finite speed of light. Switches, routers and
> relays along the way will add to that.
>
> So no, hidden services will never be responsive. Bandwidth is something
> else, there are no in-principle boundaries.
>
> On 04.08.2013 13:59, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I am wondering: Is it possible to make the Hidden Service in Tor work
> near speed of standard web? It seems more and more that many sites should
> be offering Tor services and Tor connection. Is Tor like Freenet where most
> use makes faster connections, or opposite? How can Hidden Service be made
> faster?
> >
> > --
> > Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerzyma at interia.eu
> >
>
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