If tor is incompetent to find HUGE funding for free, it may be time to setup an international tor paid option.
Many of TORs current high-bandwidth nodes are run by universities .. who would be legally prohibited from participating in a for-profit system (even if the model was just cost recovery). It's also a lot easier to sell the idea of exposing yourself to endless abuse complaints if you can use the "...but we're helping Chinese dissidents..." angle.
If you want paid-for anonymity services, there's tons to choose from .. but consider that once you attach payment to a username, you've created an easily attributable path back to you. TOR from the coffee shop's wifi is a lot harder to trace.
I guess it depends on *why* you need the performance .. if it's p2p you're trying to do (which you shouldn't be doing on TOR anyway) I'd suggest you take a look at what the friendly pirates at PRQ have come up with (Relakks .. www.relakks.com).
Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University
