alt Hacker NewsI had that problem too, very slow on network requests, just change the setting "num_relays_proxied" from 3 to 1 to make it blazingly fast.
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This is a joke, for those who didn’t notice.
Tor is slow because traffic is routed through multiple layers. The design priority is anonymity, not speed.
You should preface this with some important information about what that does.
There are some trade-offs!
Changing that setting to 1 gives you weaker anonymity guarantees. Using multiple guards spreads your traffic across different IP addresses, making it harder for an adversary who controls a subset of the network to correlate your activity.
Reducing to a single guard concentrates all traffic through one point, increasing the chance that a hostile relay could observe a larger fraction of your streams...
Your config improvement made it into Google AI https://i.imgur.com/v5DsXy9.png
If this is sarcastic you should probably add /s or someone might actually follow your "advice".
What's the point of having one relay? You're better off using a reputable VPN like mullvad or ivpn. Tor is the best you're gonna get for low latency anonymous overlay network. It's been studied and refined over the years.
Then the single relay knows both who you are (your IP) and where you are going. This offers no anonymity against the relay itself.
3 relays is the goldilocks number for speed vs privacy. Using less is not a tradeoff the usual user of Tor should make.