Hi there. Sorry if this is something that's been posted before (I checked and I didn't see anything though), and sorry to be yet another person asking for help with Tor, but I couldn't see any one that had this particular problem.

I downloaded Tor, and installed it (including everything that it came with), but when I run Vidalia, it goes: "Connecting to Tor", etc and a couple of other things, and then when it gets to "Loading network status" it just stops and continues trying to load network status, to no avail.

Could any kind soul with the technical proficiencies that I so dearly lack help me out please?

Thanks

most likely firewall blocked or you lack bandwidth.

Its simple to run Tor, u will need Tor-Install & Tor Button (firefox plugin)
to synchronize it! remeber to have the plugin ON/OFF, clear all priv data,
and change indentity when needed..

Originally Posted by Rikael

Hi there. Sorry if this is something that's been posted before (I checked and I didn't see anything though), and sorry to be yet another person asking for help with Tor, but I couldn't see any one that had this particular problem.

I downloaded Tor, and installed it (including everything that it came with), but when I run Vidalia, it goes: "Connecting to Tor", etc and a couple of other things, and then when it gets to "Loading network status" it just stops and continues trying to load network status, to no avail.

Could any kind soul with the technical proficiencies that I so dearly lack help me out please?

Thanks

Make sure ports 9050 and 9051 are open in whatever firewall you are using .....

HTH ....