Speeding up TOR

SmallStorm

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• Jan 22, 2008
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• #21

Hi all,

The code above doesn't speed the connection speed of TOR up. The speeds to the different nodes can't be changed.

What it does is help 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.

Chris

 

trophaeum

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• #22

got to say that after dropping this into my tor setup i definantly noticed an improvement, thanks!

 

markj

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• #23

Fouad Aslam said:

thanks for the code.
from initial impressions there seems to be no great difference but lets see. i hope to TOR my cpm site, hehehehe

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Using TOR on your CPM site can get you into trouble. It's too easy to detect by any serious com network. It's fine for anonymity, but it leaves footprints that can let servers know that TOR is being used.

 

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jackass69

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• #24

Thanks that really does make a difference.

It is still slow as a ____, but that's just the way it is I guess.

 

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jackass69

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• #25

Oh one other thing I wanted to add that might speed things up a little more, at least for those with a *nix server handy.

On my Windoze lappy I configured it to use TOR on my Linux server to speed things up and use a few less CPU cycles...

If you are using tor through privoxy, or using the Firefox Torbutton plugin with privoxy (the default arrangement) you will need to edit your privoxy config file (on your client machine) so that your 'forward-socks4a' line reads something like the following:

forward-socks4a / 192.168.1.2:9100 .

Next be sure that your sever is ready to handle incoming requests.

Add the following to your /etc/tor/torrc file (at least that's where it is on my Linux box)..

SocksListenAddress 192.168.x.x:9100 (server's IP addressort)

Restart Tor on the server and Privoxy on the client(s) and you should be good to go.

I'm not sure how much it will help you, but I found it made a difference especially if you add the other settings mentioned earlier to your server config. Best of all under this config, you also only have to add those only once and then you'll have the speed bump on all your PCs that use Tor.

 

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gdawgrulz

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• #26

Thanks for the tweak, Chris. Didn't seem to make much difference but still worth a shot.

Gary

 

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csharpp

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• #27

thanks! TOR is a great tool

 

zenmenow

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• Feb 17, 2008

• #28

You guys might want checkout this firefox addon ,called Tor-Proxy.NET
You can choose Tor or JonDos/JAP which is another network.
JonDos/JAP is claimed to have some speed-improvements.
I tested it out sometime it does seem to be better,but not so much.
Anyway worth ashot!

 

BigBlue

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I apologize if this has been asked already, but does anyone know of a way to make tor use US nodes only?

This together with a auto reload type ff plugin may be good for some side cash via CPM Its pretty blackhat but it may work since its all auto pilot.

 

shibumila

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• #30

Thanks.... Tor is painfully slow sometimes.

 

Loak

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• #31

Thanks, its always snail pace and hardly worth using anymore.

 

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linksgalore2

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I've used Tor via TorButton for a while but since I've upgraded Firefox to 3.0.1 it comes up with and error something like '...Tor button has restricted xxxx as a workaround for a security bug in FF...' Does anyone else get this?

 

pNuker

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• #33

I just recently started to use TOR but it was so painfully slow I was about to give up. I'll give this a shot!

 

sendlerad

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• #34

thanks for info..

ANyway is there a way how to ''TORify'' specific application if that application dont have proxy support?

 

apekillape

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• #35

No(t really).

TOR uses HTTP proxies. Most other programs use different types of connections than HTTP, so you're stuck with Socks or naught.

N

 

sendlerad

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ok then is it possible to make TOR work for entire internet connections on PC?

 

apekillape

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HTTP ONLY WORKS FOR BROWSERS.

N - Caps.

 

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beyondrecruiters

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Is says you can change TOR settings to limit US proxies only by using us.pickaproxy.com / 8125.

How do I go about changing the settings within TOR to do that (step by step please)? Anyone successfully done that?

 

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beyondrecruiters

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beyondrecruiters said:

Is says you can change TOR settings to limit US proxies only by using us.pickaproxy.com / 8125.

How do I go about changing the settings within TOR to do that (step by step please)? Anyone successfully done that?

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does anyone know how to do this???

 

Clare Jane

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beyondrecruiters said:

Is says you can change TOR settings to limit US proxies only by using us.pickaproxy.com / 8125.

How do I go about changing the settings within TOR to do that (step by step please)? Anyone successfully done that?

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Pardon the bump-up but I'm really dying to get an answer for this one. Thanks!