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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: burnemuppup on May 24, 2012, 06:24 am

Title: speed up SR
Post by: burnemuppup on May 24, 2012, 06:24 am
I see alot of people trying to sell instruction to speed up SR..
anyone want to offer them up for free?
Title: Re: speed up SR
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on May 24, 2012, 08:00 pm
It's a scam. You can't speed up Tor and/or SR without giving up some of your anonymity at the same time.
Title: Re: speed up SR
Post by: Knomo on May 25, 2012, 04:28 am
I see alot of people trying to sell instruction to speed up SR..
anyone want to offer them up for free?

Just quit your porn downloads for a bit while you browse SR.
I share my router with 5 different people and I can't really complain about the speed of SR.
Title: Re: speed up SR
Post by: k1k1 on May 31, 2012, 10:16 am
You can try to adjust your "torrc" file with the following code:

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# Try for at most NUM seconds when building circuits. If the circuit isn't
# open in that time, give up on it. (Default: 1 minute.)
CircuitBuildTimeout 5
# Send a padding cell every N seconds to keep firewalls from closing our
# connections while Tor is not in use.
KeepalivePeriod 60
# Force Tor to consider whether to build a new circuit every NUM seconds.
NewCircuitPeriod 15
# How many entry guards should we keep at a time?
NumEntryGuards 8

This would probably speed up TOR a little bit, but when you are connected to slow nodes, you can't change anything on this but using a new identity and hope you'll get faster ones.
To see the speed of the connected tor-nodes, click "View the network" ind vidalia.

hope that helps a little bit :)