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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: th3rd on March 07, 2012, 05:58 am

Title: can't access SR?
Post by: th3rd on March 07, 2012, 05:58 am
For the past 8 hours I haven't been able to access SR is this just me ?
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: Comrade on March 07, 2012, 10:28 pm
cant reach the website neither
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: kidx on March 08, 2012, 03:14 pm
I can't access silkroad either. My Tor browser will not connect.

Anybody know what the deal is? Because I have orders pending...
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: anon12166347 on March 09, 2012, 07:02 am
I've been timing out all day, too. Well, actually, I was good up until I finally got some BTC again lol. Then I immediately kept timing out.
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: godofall2 on March 09, 2012, 07:12 am
best way to fix this it just use a new identity that fixes it a lot of the time
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: msween27 on March 09, 2012, 07:29 am
Also check your "bandwidth graph" on Vidalia (right below View the Network) this will let you know if it's just a tor connection problem or a problem with the website.  Like mentioned above changing your identity or restarting your tor will usually fix this problem.  Sometimes TOR is just lagging though due to high traffic (I think).

It will give you a graph of Receiving kb/s   and Sending kb/s

It could just be something else I'm not aware of, but these are the most likely causes.
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: DaMan on March 09, 2012, 09:10 am
rule#1: Don't rely on Tor if you plan to access site X anytime.
Tor is somewhat weird, put to this, site A and B are vhosts in the very same server, running the very same Tor, at some point some users may be able to access A and not B or B and not A.

Also I noticed, under some experiences, that Tor can't quite be used over a certain load, this ain't because traffic but hashrates of the seeds used to encrypt the data channels. Tor is extremely server-intensive and if can't compute seeds for new connections the site may appear offline... even when it isn't.
i2p is way better than Tor in this issue, however the lack of users at that network make it less anonymous than Tor.
Title: Re: can't access SR?
Post by: anon12166347 on March 09, 2012, 06:15 pm
Just in case anyone is having the same problem as me, mine was because I have my default torrc edited to exclude any foreign nodes. If this is your case, take those exceptions out (or just revert back to the default torrc) and you may be good again. (I'd pretty much figured this much last night, but I just went to bed and decided to dick with it in the morning.) Hopefully this helps the other couple people!