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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: ecstasy on September 06, 2011, 06:58 pm

Title: tor faster ?
Post by: ecstasy on September 06, 2011, 06:58 pm
hi guys ,

is there any trick or some setting to the onion , to speed up Tor ?  :)
Title: Re: tor faster ?
Post by: ecstasy on September 06, 2011, 09:23 pm
I'm sorry but I do not know what to do .... you can explain it more simple?

I am no expert with PC ...
Title: Re: tor faster ?
Post by: killerglass on September 06, 2011, 10:24 pm
Hi ecstacy-

I'm no PC expert either.  I was able to figure out nerf's advice.  Let me try to explain:

open a new tab in the mozilla browser you use Tor in.  just type in the about: config, then hit the arrow.  This will bring up a HUGE list of....IDK...things of some sort.  Settings for Tor, I guess.  What you do now is, using the list Nerf provided, scroll down and find each setting entry that matches.  Make sure the setting matches EXACTLY what nerf said...there are a lot that are alike.  Then what you will do is change the default setting to what is listed in Nerf's post.

So for the first one (keep-alive.timeout), your setting right now is probably 300.  Highlight that entry, right click, and choose modify.  A gui box will pop up.  Change the 300 to 600.  The ones that are numbers you will manually change.  The ones that have true/false options, right clicking will provide you with a "toggle" option  Just click toggle.

Then restart.  Hope that helps!!

@Nerf:  thanks for the tip :D
Title: Re: tor faster ?
Post by: ecstasy on September 07, 2011, 10:32 am
ok now everything is clear... thank you very much
Title: Re: tor faster ?
Post by: ecstasy on September 08, 2011, 10:17 am
I tried but it is still slow, is there any other solution?
Title: Re: tor faster ?
Post by: EnterTheMatrix on September 10, 2011, 03:26 am
These are quite common settings that you can alter to speed up TOR because the settings help TOR in moving on when a node/circuit is unresponsive. Basically, reduces the timeout time for the circuit before looking for another path.

This decreases wait time on finding a path to complete your request.

Hope this helps!