Third time--is it right now?

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Nick Mathewson 2004-02-02 06:21:15 +00:00
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%sendme} acknowledgments arrive.
To quantify these effects, we did some informal tests using a network of 4
nodes on the same machine (a heavily loaded 1GHz Athlon). We downloaded a 60
megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample
megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 30 minutes for 54 hours (108 sample
points). It arrived in about 300 seconds on average, compared to 210s for a
direct download. We ran a similar test on the production Tor network,
fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes): while a direct
fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes) every 10 minutes for
21.3 hours (128 sample points): while a direct
download consistently took about 0.3s, the performance through Tor was highly
variable. Some downloads were as fast as 0.3s, with a median at 2.6s, and
90\% finishing within 6.0s. It seems that as the network expands, the chance